Retro Gaming Bonanza: Scroll Through the Pages of a Gaming Magazine From 2001

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John Summers • Contributor
Mar 10, 2024 10:00 PM EDT

Step into the time machine and set the dial to 2001 as we take a nostalgic stroll through the pages of GamePro, the quintessential gaming magazine of the early 2000s. This delightfully old-school publication captured the essence of the gaming world at the turn of the millennium, showcasing the latest and greatest in video games and gaming technology. From cutting-edge consoles to groundbreaking titles that defined a generation, GamePro was the go-to source for gamers seeking the latest industry news, reviews, and previews.

As we scroll through these vintage scans, we'll relive the excitement of a bygone era in gaming, where polygons were king, and the internet was just beginning to change the landscape of multiplayer experiences. Each page is a reminder of the rapid evolution of gaming and a tribute to the classics that continue to influence the industry today. So, grab your controller, and let's dive into the pixelated pages of GamePro's 2001 edition, where every turn is a trip down memory lane.

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    IDG Exclusive First Review! Half-Life Twisted Metal: Black Black & White The Legend of Zelda: Ha Oracle of Seasons/Ages Read by MORE Than 3.1 Million Gamers Each Month GAME BOY COLOR GAME PRO World's Largest Multiplatform Gaming Magazine Issue 153 gamepro.com $5.99 US $7.50 CAN Hayas GAME BOY ADVANCE GAME BOY COLOR Polter AND Exclusive! There's Magic SORCERER'S Everywhere! 250+ GAMES INSIDE! STONE HUGE E3 PREVIEWS SECTION! Devil May Cry Dark Cloud PE Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 Smuggler's Run 2
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    Finally, 10 REASONS to Buy a NEW CONSOLE PlayStation 2 க aqua aqua "puzzle gamer's THE ADDICTIVE FAST-ACTION 3D PUZZLER! wet dream.' - Dailyradar.com, 1/01 PlayStation 2 3D0 fantasy-based... strategy game... "A classic PlayStation 2 க HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC for the PlayStation®2 Quest Dragon Bone Staff computer entertainment system." - Gamepro, 4/01 E 3DO PlayStation.2 RUNNER " Experience the 3DO ...among the best of the first-year PS2 titles." -Game Informer, 01/01 HIGH HEAT Major League Bas
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  • 03
    PlayStation 2 ARMY MEN GREEN ROGUE PlayStation.2 Awarded PSE2 WARRIORS Editor's Choice Gold Award - PSE2 Might Magic ARCADE SHOOTER REAL COMBAT. PLASTIC MEN: 3DO ... fast, good looking, deep and fun" PlayStation.2 ARMY MEN AIR ATTACK 2 4 - PSE2, 3/01 PlayStation.2 WORCS DESTRUCTION LEAGUE THUNDER TANKS "...the game's multiplayer play value is almost without limit." - PS2.ign.com, 12/00 REAL COMBAT. PLASTIC MEN: 3D0 "...the best Army MenⓇ game yet..." ignPS2.com, 11/00 3D0 In Stores NOW! "...this
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    DD1367 It's a hassle at the castle as you compete for the title of "Ultimate Champion" in Shrek Fairy Tale FreakDown"! Play one of nine characters from the feature film "Shrek" and make your fairy tale opponents run, run, run all the way home! SHREK Fairy Tale FreakDown GAME BOY COLOR EVERYONE E CONTENT RATED BY ESRB Official Nintendo Seal of Quality TDK EVERYONE E GAMEBOY COLOR DREAMWORKS... Shrek, Princess Fiona, Lord Farquaad and Shrek Fairy Tale FreakDownTM & © 2001 DreamWorks LLC. Game Boy,
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    Worms are an essential part of a gamer's diet nyko 888-444-Nyko The perfect side dish for Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance Yko nYko IMAGINE NO LIMITS NYKO's Worm Light is protected by US utility patent 6,186,636, and US design patent 435, 679. Other worldwide patents are pending. Worm Light and NYKO® are trademarks of NYKO Technologies, Inc. ©2001 NYKO Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. www.nyko.com
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  • 06
    GAME BOY ADVANCE O E Nintendo 0476 GAME BOY ADVANCE RAYMAN ADVANCE RAYMAN ADVANCE Rayman's whole universe in your hands-60 levels of 32-bit graphic goodness, now on Game Boy Advance. Available June 2001 GAME BOY ADVANCE Ubi Soft x01 EVERYONE E DIGITAL Game Boy and Game Boy Advance are trademarks of Nintendo. O 2001 Nintendo 2001 Ubi Soft, Inc. Ubi Soft and the Ubi Soft Entertainment logo are registered trademarks of Ubi Soft, Inc. All Rights Reserved. MusyX Audio Tools licensed by Factor 5, ESRB
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  • 07
    Keen's on the Case, Making Outer Space Safe! Run, jump and climb as you zap armored mechs and oozing organic blobs with your trusty Neural Ray Blaster. MIZ Explore three space-worlds filled with toxic slime pits, magical platforms and special teleporters. Commander KEEN Visit www.esrb.org or call 1-800-771-3772 for more info. GAME BOY COLOR To the kids at school, you're Billy Blaze. To alien enemies in the galaxy, you're super hero Commander Keen"! Your mission: Face off against intergalactic cr
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  • 08
    **Cuttingedge Sega Games Go Hireless The next voice you hear when you fire up your cell phone just might be that of Sonic the Hedgehog. By The Whizz EGA HAS HUNG up its plans for the Dreamcast, but Sega games may soon be just a phone call away. That's because late last year Sega and Motorola inked plans to develop games for Motorola's iDEN handsets, the company's next-generation, multiple communica- tions cell phones. iDEN-tifying Games Motorola's iDEN handsets represent one of the evolutionary
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  • 09
    PlayStation.2 YOU'VE NEVER SEEN STAR WARS LIKE THIS! 8 Star Wars characters big-headed kart racing 25+ gadgets & powerups 1-4 players O extreme verticality 9 detailed tracks
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  • 10
    COVER FEATURE GAMEPRO EXCLUSIVE OFF TO BE A WIZARD! HARRY POTTER HAS CHARMED READERS YOUNG AND OLD IN J.K. ROWLING'S ENCHANTING TALES OF A WIZARD-IN- TRAINING, BUT CAN HE REPEAT THAT MAGIC IN THE GAMING REALM? GAMEPRO BRINGS YOU THE EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT THE HARRY GAMES DUE THIS OCTOBER. BY AIR HENDRIX GAMEPRO JUNE 2001 Harry Potter AND TALK SORCERER'S STONE 36 All drawings by Francis Mao 2001 www.GAMEPRO.COM LETTER SOCAMER
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    JOIN NOW RED FACTION RECRUITMENT INFORMATION TM
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  • 12
    special Feature PE TWISTED METAL: BLACK 100 MATURE M ESRB BACK IN BLACK "With the capacity of the PS2, we can tell a bigger story," says Incognito's Scott Campbell. "We've got the real estate to do that." GAMEP Twisted Metal returns to its dark roots with Twisted Metal: Black-and the creative team from the series' glory days is once again behind the wheel-so GamePro got behind the wheel for a Hands-On test drive, too. By Dan Elektro W HEN DOES A shift into reverse actually send you zooming forwa
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    ENTER TO WIN A BMX BIKE! Here's your chance to bike like the pros. MAT HOFFMAN'S PRO BMX PlayStation Activision is giving away three Hoffman bikes! These bikes are just like the ones in Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX video game. Plus, over 35 other prizes will be given to lucky winners. Prize List: Grand Prize (3 winners): Hoffman Bike and a Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX video game Second prize (10 winners): Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX video game, Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX fin- ger bike, and Road Fools Europe video Runner
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  • 14
    Patrick, Wal-Mart Customer AT LAST A WORLD YOU CONTROL. It's the world of Nintendo. And you can get there by heading to Wal-Mart, where all the latest Nintendo games and accessories are available at Every Day Low Prices. Hey, this is your world. Get ready to rule. Walmart.com 2001 WAL-MART NINTENDO Nintendo GET ON THE N'SIDE! NCRON ncrew.com WAL-MART ALWAYS LOW PRICES. Always
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  • 15
    GAME BOY ADVANCE Available in-store June 13, 2001 GAME BOY. Nintendo Nintendo GAME BOY. + Nintendo GAMEBOY. 00 GAME BOY ADVANCE Game Boy Advance is backward compatible-plays all Game Boy games! • Four-player compatibility with link cable. 50% larger screen! Better colors, better resolution! A new, 32-bit processor-stereo sound! GAME BOY COLOR A BELPA FELPA Game Boy Color Systems $6996 DR YARIN64 The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages $2996 MORIO PARTY The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages and Seasons P
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  • 16
    X-XBOX XBOX XBOX XBOX XBOX XBOX XBOX XBOX XBOX Extravaganza! Dive into 40+ pages of E³ sneak peeks, including games for the next-gen gang: the PS2, Xbox, and Game Boy Advance. But don't count out the rest of the systems (not even the Dreamcast), whose games are sizzling! WWF Raw Is War Developed and published by THQ Target release date: Fall 2001 Even Better Than the Real Thing BY DAN ELEKTRO Wrestling fans are already pumped for WWF Raw Is War, the federation's debut on Microsoft's new machine.
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    SEGA GAMEPRO PRESENTS DREAMCAST SURVIVOR'S G GUIDE DO NOT GO GENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT DON'T LET 'EM TAKE YOUR DREAMCAST WITHOUT A FIGHT! ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED ALL RUMORS REVEALED! ESSENTIAL GAMES THAT MUST BE IN YOUR LIBRARY! ALL THE GEAR YOU NEED FROM NOW TIL NEVER! CODES AND CHEATS FOR THE TOP GAMES! FOR ONCE, YOU DO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING! By Dan Elektro Supplement to GamePro magazine
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    TIME LIMIT 18 WHEELER AMERICAN PRO TRUCKER 209 FELER BONUS $06398 START GOAL 056 KEY WEST TIME LIMIT 21 FUEL HD TANKER $11.570 605 *1045 DALLAS TIME $15 LIMIT CARF TRANSPORTER $12.5000 097 Accidents will happen -- and some of them are worth a lot of points. Climb into the burly high-powered semi of your choice and barrel your way across the continent while being smack-talked by rival truckers over your CB radio. Barricades, cars, vans, and yes, even Smokey, are all yours for the smashin'. But ke
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    GamePro Presents... DC-X Grab the Gear GET THE GOODIES WHILE YOU STILL CAN! HERE'S WHAT EVERY DREAMCAST OWNER SHOULD HAVE FOR THE FUTURE. $24.99 DX Easily the coolest third- party doodad, Blaze's disc enables U.S. gamers to run Japanese software and vice versa-all without adding any chips or cracking open your Dreamcast. An essen- tial for even casual fans of import games. imported games BROADBAND ADAPTER ⚫ $59.95 The future standard for Internet connections-and the Dreamcast can say it was here
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    253, me time FARE 1445 D Hit the mean streets of the Big Apple as one of 4 new "cabbies" in low-rider taxis that can now leap over traffic. 8010 FARE L093.05 Pick up multiple fares at one time while driving to the slamin' sounds of Offspring and Methods of Mayhem. Yo! CAN I GET A FREAKIN' TAXI OVER HERE? Crazy Taxi New York CRAZY TAXI Sty RP Dreamcast Sega is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Sega, Dreamcast, the Dreamcast logo and Crazy Taxi are either registered trademarks or
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    ME BOY COLOR GAME BOY CO E³xtravaganza! The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons Developed by Capcom/Nintendo/Published by Nintendo Target release date: May BY UNCLE DUST NINTENDO IS RELEASING two brand new Zelda adventures on the Game Boy Color to keep Link fans very happy. In The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, you'll embark on a quest to find the Rod of Seasons to help you recover the Essences of Nature. Using the Rod, you'll be able to change into B 44 868 868 the four different seasons, r
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  • 22
    PlaySmart The ESRB Ratings Guide Blade of Darkness The interactive electronic enter- tainment industry utilizes a volun- tary rating system developed by an independent organization- the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)-so consumers know what to expect before buy- ing a video or PC game. The fol- lowing is a quick key to the most common ratings; for a complete description, check out the ESRB's Web site at www.esrb.org or call 800/771-3772 for more information. EARLY CHILD Titles rated E
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  • 23
    Army Men: Air Attack 2 By 3DO Army Men: Air Attack 2 is replete with animated violence (as are most of the games in this Army Men series). The carnage, nevertheless, occurs within a fantasy plastic toy world among toy soldiers, structures, and vehicles. Army Men: Air Attack 2 contains no blood or gore, and the only casualties in the game are made of virtual plastic. TEEN T PlayStation 2 ARMY MEN AIR ATTACK 2 Black & White By EA Games Although the violence isn't bloody, it may be disturbing to ki
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    PC GAMEPRO PROReviews Recommended System Specs SERIOUS SAM ORDES OF GREAT first-person shooters have thrilled gamers since Doom, but few have recaptured Windows 95/98/2000 the frantic in-your-face mayhem of that groundbreaking Pentium III 500 MHz game-until now. So put a bandage on your trigger-finger, boys, 'cuz Serious Sam has some of the most exciting and addictive blasting action in years. 128 MB RAM 300 MB on HD OpenGL-compliant 3D accelerator with 32 MB RAM Windows 95/98/NT4/ W2K-compatibl
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    (月) PLAYSTATION 2 PROReviews SUALLY WHEN A game is kept under wraps until right before it's released, you can bet that is blows. So it's really strange that EA Games didn't hype Quake III Revolution at all. This fine port of the classic PC shooter can stand proudly alongside TimeSplitters as one of the Play- Station 2's top guns. Gladiators Of the Future Quake III Revolution's story- you play as a gladiator/slave BY AIR HENDRIX Developed by Bullfrog/id Software Published by EA Games First-person
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    (PE) PLAYSTATION 2 PROReviews PROTIP: To get through the Garden, assemble a Leaf Blower from a Hand Dryer and a set of pipes from the bath- room disaster, then blow your enemies into the grip of the giant plant. PROTIP: As Kurt, the best way to eliminate these dudes with the hom- ing energy cannon is to get behind an obstacle; most often, you'll be able to snipe them while their gun harmlessly blasts away at the blockage. PROTIP: The Dual Shock 2 is your friend! Set the controls to use both anal
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    NINTENDO 64 PROReviews M ARIO AND COMPANY once again turn the doomed N64 into the star of the party with this third installment of the plumber's fantastic board game. BY FOUR-EYED DRAGON Developed by Hudson Soft Published by Nintendo $59.99 Available May Board game #4 players GRAPHICS SOUND CONTROL FACTOR 4.0 4.0 5.0 5.0 MARIO PARTY DID SOMEONE SAY, "TENNIS"? Mario Party 3 continues in the vein of its predecessors, as four Mario World char- acters duke it out on a virtual board, collecting coins
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    DREAMCAST PROReviews HALF-LIFE BY DAN ELEKTRO Developed by Valve/Gearbox/Captivation GRAPHICS Published by Sierra FUN SOUND CONTROL FACTOR ■$49.99 First-person 63 Available now action ■I player 5.0 5.0 4.5 5.0 VERHAULED, OVER-ACHIEVING, and way over its deadline, Half-Life has finally arrived on the Dream- cast. Was the console port of a first-person PC masterpiece worth the wait? Absolutely-in fact, doubly so. EXTRA LIFE Half-Life on the Dreamcast is actually two games in one: the original PC a
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