History Magazine / NGamer

* BrutalHonesty: The key trait that separates the magazine from any comparable rivals. It even has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_Magazine#The_Famed_.22Bad_Reviews.22 a dedicated section]] on Website/TheOtherWiki.

In 2017, to coincide with the release of the SNES "Mini" Classic (and the first official release of ''Star Fox 2'', which had never seen the light of day during the console's original run), the team made a special one-off revival issue (#48) for Super Play, bundled free with Retro Gamer #172. Although only sporting about half as many pages as a typical issue from its original run, it was well received and featured aspects such as a modern day reassessment of the games re-released with the console (and a comparison of "then and now" scores).

The magazine began publication in the early 90's as Super Play, which focused on the Super NES and (occasionally) Game Boy. When the launch of the Nintendo 64 was imminent, the name changed to N64 Magazine, and when the Nintendo [=GameCube=] and Game Boy Advance were approaching release, it changed again into NGC Magazine. The name [=NGamer=] was adopted shortly before the launch of the Wii, and remained until the January 2012 issue when it was renamed Nintendo Gamer. The magazine was published 13 times per year at 4-week intervals, assigning one issue to each month, then releasing the remaining one for Christmas. The staff work at Future Publishing UK, which since 2003 has also been the home of the UK Official Nintendo Magazine ever since Nintendo stopped publishing it themselves.

The magazine was by far the longest-running unofficial UK publication that focuses primarily on Nintendo, surviving through a combination of market niches and high-quality writing. Ever since their inception, the magazine has had a high focus on import games ([[NoExportForYou at least half of which never reach the British market]], although they give a re-review and score if/when it becomes available locally), has consistently written news and reviews with a density of [[SarcasticDevotee snark]] and [[BrutalHonesty honesty]] almost never seen in their market (made possible because they don't have to tote the company line), frequently features bizzare ideas for 'feature articles' and 'characters' to add to their aesthetic, and seems to consistently hire individuals who can combine quality work/writing with British humour. It is for this reason that their fanbase has become so tenacious without becoming [[UnpleasableFanbase unpleasable]], staying with them despite their routine name/design/staff overhauls and the state of Nintendo's games market share. However, [[MagazineDecay these defining traits seem to have diminished over time]]. The announcement that the magazine had been cancelled was made in August 2012, although it still continued online until early 2013.

The magazine began publication in the early 90's as Super Play, which focused on the Super NES and Game Boy. When the launch of the Nintendo 64 was imminent, the name changed to N64 Magazine, and when the Nintendo [=GameCube=] and Game Boy Advance were approaching release, it changed again into NGC Magazine. The name [=NGamer=] was adopted shortly before the launch of the Wii, and remained until the January 2012 issue when it was renamed Nintendo Gamer. The magazine was published 13 times per year at 4-week intervals, assigning one issue to each month, then releasing the remaining one for Christmas. The staff work at Future Publishing UK, which since 2003 has also been the home of the UK Official Nintendo Magazine ever since Nintendo stopped publishing it themselves.

** In their past as NGC Magazine, they once gave ''VideoGame/{{GiFTPiA}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/GetterLovePandaLoveUnit Getter Love!! Panda Love Unit]]'' a ?? rating each, having absolutely no clue whatsoever what was going on due to the fact that both, especially ''[=GiFTPiA=]'' was [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] complete with entirely Japanese text. Despite this though they gave 8 and 7 to the former's graphics and sound, reckoning that "There's clearly a quite brilliant game lurking beneath the realms of the Japanese text."

* BrutalHonesty: The key trait that separates the magazine from any comparable rivals. It even has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_Magazine#The_Famed_.22Bad_Reviews.22 a dedicated section]] on Wiki/{{The Other Wiki}}.

* BaldOfAwesome: Jes Bickham.
** And in later issues, Nick "Nellis" Ellis.

* FootnoteFever: Used and parodied repeatedly, for example one review featured a mention of ''Film/{{Alien|3}}''[[labelnote:3]]With a footnote explaining that the superscript 3 is part of the title and thus you shouldn't be reading this footnote.[[/labelnote]]

* PassThroughTheRings : The infamous Lex Luthor catchphrase "Solve My Maze!" from ''VideoGame/{{Superman 64}}''[='s=] first level was the staff's favourite aspect of all the sub-20%-scoring games they had reviewed, so for a stretch of issues following their conversion into NGC Magazine, they licensed an image of Lex Luthor and added a 'Solve My Maze' cut-out-and-keep footer to one page per issue, in a similar manner to child-level puzzle publications. The puzzles themselves were often nonsensical and impossible to solve. On the last month of the license period, [[spoiler:the segment changed to 'Solve My Murder', giving the Luthor image [[WingdingEyes X eyes]] and providing an open-ended puzzle to determine the murder weapon]].