Retro Gamer Official Magazine Reviews

by Tonyval36

RetroGamerOfficialMagazine is not as functional as it should be. It’s not like reading a digital book on a Kindle app, it is more like a scanned version of a print copy. Not practical as you must make an effort to zoom in and out of each page so that you can read the font. I cannot recommend RetroGamerOfficialMagazine

by Brandon530

I LOVE this magazine. I've been a subscriber for over four years and purchased A TON of back issues; seriously hundreds spent on back issues. Unfortunately, with the new app update, nearly every issue I purchased outside of my subscription is now not available, as if I never purchased it. I've emailed the publisher five times in the two weeks and haven't gotten ANY response outside of the automated email. If you ever worry about buying issues that somehow you might be forced to repurchase in the future, DO NOT BUY FROM THIS PUBLISHER, because that's exactly what's happened to me.

by Rafael.schmup

Since they updated RetroGamerOfficialMagazine , I'm not able to use itunes credits to buy magazines ( RetroGamerOfficialMagazine simply says there is not enough credits even if there is plenty ). Really do not recommend this one.

It's a shame, the magazine itself is great and does not deserve this awful app.

by Miss_Angel_Princess

Bought a year’s subscription in June; despite that, new issues stopped being downloadable after September- instead, they show the purchase price of buying the issue individually, which rather goes against the whole point of purchasing a year’s subscription, doesn’t it?

I knew what I was getting into, though, having read the other reviews dating back two years, I just wish terrible business practices weren’t so commonplace these days; the magazine itself is great, but the online publisher should be ashamed of themselves for stealing money from consumers.

by McPicklesJr

I subscribed a few months ago and ended up buying the back catalogue of issues and enjoyed reading them until I’d discovered some of the apps quirks: no reading issues offline, no reading issues until the publishers store loads, the publishers store won’t always load, loading the publishers store often causes RetroGamerOfficialMagazine to crash. It is at a point where I can longer read the magazines, instead I watch RetroGamerOfficialMagazine load and then crash out. Don’t download RetroGamerOfficialMagazine, if you want to read Retro Gamer, get the physical subscription.

by Raizingsun

Twice now a bug has occurred where RetroGamerOfficialMagazine locks up trying to access the store and so I can’t access my library. I’m then forced to delete RetroGamerOfficialMagazine reinstall and redownload load all my issues. It just happened a third time prompting me to write this review. If you remove the need to access the store and allow me to just read my issues I’ve paid for I’ll change my star rating, which reflects RetroGamerOfficialMagazine and not the magazine itself, which is good.

by Sywlyn

Downloaded RetroGamerOfficialMagazine . And also the pc gamer app. Purchased a few issues and nothing. Nothing in my library. But. Billed. They take your money but literally give you nothing in return. Going to escalate this Apple to try and have RetroGamerOfficialMagazine removed as it doesn’t do what it says it does.

Don’t bother trying to restore purchases in RetroGamerOfficialMagazine . I’ve tried that off two IPads now and it doesn’t work.

by Gulfracer

I purchased and downloaded all the back issues and now all I see are two busy icons when I launch this crappy joke of an app. If I minimize RetroGamerOfficialMagazine then bring back to front, then RetroGamerOfficialMagazine usually crashes. It has been like this for months. I am using the latest iPad Pro. Obviously I am unable to be read the content I have purchased. No excuse for this.

by SuperNikoPower

My favorite magazine ever. Unfortunately the experience is garbage. I bought the deal to get all of the back issues. I downloaded some of them. I went back to RetroGamerOfficialMagazine a day later and it just spins on loading the store and is completely frozen. This is garbage. I wasted my money on the deal because I can't use RetroGamerOfficialMagazine to read them.

Complete trash.

by KayBR

I wanted to grab a new magazine before I went somewhere where I'd have to be waiting around and the store wouldn't load, so I updated. Big mistake, the update removed all my currently downloaded magazines and app restore isn't giving them all back. Plus I'm running out of time before I have to leave so I'm not going to have any to read. Hard not to be angry over this.

by LittleSageCat

Latest version still doesn't support the large screen iPad Pro. At least downloads seem to work now. It's difficult to turn pages, though.

by Danny Welch

There are several areas for improvement with RetroGamerOfficialMagazine , and I really hope the developers will address some of the many complaints over time. The performance is pretty terrible. The library section still has tons of screen space consumed by store, sub, and sign-in. There is a separate store section, so taking up real estate for the library view seems like overkill. There are so few options for organizing the library. Just adding the ability to manually adjust the order would be a huge plus.

Anyway, I love the magazine enough to tolerate the issues with the application, but things good be so much better.

by Sfmrsm575

I have downloaded over 100 to my iPad's storage, so why do I have to wait 4 minutes sometimes just to read the ones I have. RetroGamerOfficialMagazine takes too long to connect to your servers or time out or something. Fix it. I have a solid wifi signal and 100Mbps internet. No excuse!

by Jkgarrahan

PROS:
This is the highest quality version of the mag, out of all the online options. Almost no noticeable compression and no formatting errors (vs Kindle, Zinio). Zinio does offer Text-to-Speech, which is great.

FIXED: I can now read issues offline and it fills up the full iPad screen. It’s really fast if you are on airplane mode. I added two more stars! :-)

CONS: Store take a long time to load. (updated November 2020)

by McBpants

I can't believe how much content they have every issue on games of the past. Everything is well written by people who are obviously very passionate about games.

For the fools that write poor reviews due to their own shortcomings, there is not only a preview of every single issue, but you can see thumbnails of literally every page of every issue. Just tap the issue's thumbnail and swipe.

by Capbros

Viewer works well enough. Can be a bit tough to turn pages.
Magazine is fantastic, looks great on ipad even if i'd still prefer it in print. Readable on iphone but loses some of the charm of the beautiful page layouts from print edition due to being shrunk so small and having to zoom in to read the actual text.
Also got 169 issues for $47, which is a phenomenal deal.

by Dlcraddock

Easy to use and gorgeous images, especially on my iPad Pro.

by Jedomann

Like others have said, RetroGamerOfficialMagazine dies the job, and the magazine content itself is great.

by Greg The Incredible

Love the content. Pages are very clear and easy to read. Only complaint is offline viewing & library are annoyingly slow. Would like to see significantly better performance here.

by Frke

This update to RetroGamerOfficialMagazine fixes two annoyances from the past:

1. The store loads much faster.
2. It remembers your place in the magazine. Finally.

Also improved is the legibility. The previous version looked like scans of the pages. The current version seems to be PDFs from the original digital content. The text is very sharp and you can zoom into screenshots with much better detail.

RetroGamerOfficialMagazine itself is cluttered and presentation unimpressive. But you can easily view and read the magazines so I can ignore the wrapper.

I highly recommend a subscription, it's the best retro gaming content.