Former CVG editor and industry legend Jaz Rignall has taken to X to announce plans for a potential new retro gaming magazine.
Jaz has posted mock ups of covers for the potential magazine, with the title ‘Golden Age,’ the mock up covers also state that the mag will cover “computers, consoles, and coin-ops”.
In his posts on X, Jaz Rignall states that the magazine will only cover 20th century gaming, and its focus will be similar to his book, The Games of a Lifetime, on which we have previously reported.
Jaz Rignall’s plans for the magazine are that it will be A5 in size, 52 pages long, and will be published six times a year. Jaz Rignall hopes to charge less than £10 per issue for the mag, and in addition to the “regular” issues if the magazine, Rignall has also mooted system-specific “specials,” giving the example of a special issue devoted to the PC Engine.
Jaz has said that he hopes to launch a Kickstarter to fund the magazine around March 2026.
One of Rignall’s proposed stretch goals in the Kickstarter campaign is the production of ‘The Complete Guide to Consoles’ Volume 5. The original four volumes of ‘The Complete Guide to Consoles were CVG specials published between 1989 and 1990 that covered all the currently available games consoles and their key titles. It was the success of these specials that led to Jaz Rignall launching the regular monthly magazine ‘Mean Machines,’ that was devoted to games consoles in a time when home computer gaming was the dominant form of video gaming in the UK.
Here at Retro News, we’re hoping the crowdfunding will be a great success, as it sounds like the mag will cover exactly the sort of retro goodness that we just can’t get enough of. And who better to produce it than one of the greats of the golden age of computer games magazines, Jaz Rignall himself?
