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1	* HarsherInHindsight: A less-extreme example, but editor Jeff Lundrigan (who often covered games in the RPG genre) also held the nickname of "Lucky" in the magazine. Although he would work at ''Next Generation Magazine'' for some time after leaving ''Game Players'', he would later become unemployed and fade into obscurity unlike ''Game Players'' alumni such as Slate (''Nintendo Power''), Donohue (''PSM'') and Roger Burchill (editor-in-chief of ''OPM'' before it closed down) who are still remembered. Pretty ''un''lucky.
2	* HilariousInHindsight: In their January 1998 issue, they did a feature on game predictions for the new year. One of them was that a remake of ''Pong'' would debut. While it missed the 1998 deadline, ''Pong: The Next Level'' was released in 1999.
3	** That thing about Parappa not getting in a drive-by shooting? [[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken Yeah, about that...]]
4	** In their review of ''Road Rash [=3D=]'', they referred to Music/KidRock as not well-known. [[SarcasmMode That has aged well.]]
5	** In the July 1994 issue, one reader thought they should make a game based on the Izzy Olympics mascot. Sure enough, two years later, such a game was actually made: ''Izzy's Quest For the Olympic Rings''.
6	* MagazineDecay: ''Game Players'' went from the wacky comedy-filled magazine with great info to basically a stodgy, boring book with only a couple snippets of humor. Bill Donohue specifically points out that removing the humor from the book killed it.
7	** Something else that didn't help their magazine: their old reviewing system had five simple categories (initially Graphics, Sound, Bells & Whistles, Control and Replay Value but later Graphics, Sound, Gameplay, Innovation & Replay Value). Each category was rated from one to ten; the categories would then be added up and averaged to make the review score. This was replaced by a convoluted ''18-point'' system.
8	** Then, of course, there was the transition to ''Game Buyer''. It reverted to the humor-free format of the early ''Ultra Game Players'' issues, and while the rating system simplified to a 5-star system, the bar graphs for the five rating categories (graphics, sound, controls, gameplay, depth) were needlessly complex.
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10	** In some respects, PC Accelerator was this for Game Players/UGP, especially since it had a couple former GP staff like Mike Salmon and Dan Egger. It had similar wacky humor but aimed at a more adult reading audience, with HotterAndSexier being the key difference.

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