This doesn't necessarily have to mean before the internet became a household thing, more so before you had access to the internet yourself if you're on the younger side.
Anyways, before nowadays when we know when everything is coming out months beforehand, how did you learn when an upcoming game was going to be released? Magazines? Word of mouth? Or in my case, you just didn't. Before I was able to use the internet in the late 2000s, there was basically no way for me to know when a certain game was coming out unless there was a commercial on it. Best instance is w/ Twilight Princess when I just randomly saw it behind a glass case at Sears one day, and was just completely taken back that there was a new Zelda game that I guess had came out.
Although thinking on it a bit more, my brother did have a magazine subscription and would only sometimes tell me when something was coming out. I remember this mostly w/ GTA San Andreas that he showed me the magazine ad for it. Unfortunately I can't remember which one it was.
Anyways, before nowadays when we know when everything is coming out months beforehand, how did you learn when an upcoming game was going to be released? Magazines? Word of mouth? Or in my case, you just didn't. Before I was able to use the internet in the late 2000s, there was basically no way for me to know when a certain game was coming out unless there was a commercial on it. Best instance is w/ Twilight Princess when I just randomly saw it behind a glass case at Sears one day, and was just completely taken back that there was a new Zelda game that I guess had came out.
Although thinking on it a bit more, my brother did have a magazine subscription and would only sometimes tell me when something was coming out. I remember this mostly w/ GTA San Andreas that he showed me the magazine ad for it. Unfortunately I can't remember which one it was.