Found thanks to a Video Game History Foundation tweet (Xcancel link, Bluesky link); you can browse the magazine (the November 1983 issue of Electronic Games) and do full text searches in their archive.
Unrealistic female body standards (no nose)
the perfect woman. she can’t smell when i shit my pants.
QBert came to suck dick and to move laterally, and he’s all out of lateral moves
The real reason you couldn’t make sexy peach, sexy mario, sexy dongkey kuck, and sexy one-ball-sack-with-micropenis (forgot its name) as game characters today is because of puritanical payment processor aggrements.
PeachPauline has no nose and it looks like QBert is trying to make up the difference.Is Qbert supposed to have fur? I always pictured him as just a little ball creature.
I thought the same thing! It looks like in more modern incarnations he’s smooth, but in the original arcade art he’s furry.
itt: people confusing Pauline with Peach
I’ll accept a little bit of blame for putting the image description in the alt text of the post instead of in a spoiler
Peach played by Joan Rivers
Oh sick they have gamefan and the dreamcast magazine!
The VGHF Archive is rad as hell—you can do full text search across their entire library with filters and sorting, and since they use a custom OCR solution developed in-house that actually works on magazines the results are actually useful. Aside from your typical gaming magazines, they’ve also got some cool developer archives (e.g. the Myst collection which has 100+ hours of raw footage), developer/trade magazines, exhibition pamphlets (like this MGS4 magazine that was passed out at E3 2006)…all kinds of neat stuff. They’ve also got a podcast which I really enjoy (this interview they did with longtime GamePro employees was a fun episode).
