Looking for a specific old issue of PCG

[LenzaRNG]

I am part of a Discord and want to show my friends a certain issue of PC Gamer. I am looking for the issue where the main game on the CD was the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter demo. I think it was some time in 1997, but some Googling hasn't helped me find it.

If it matters, I'm in the UK.

 

[Alm]

It looks like the review of X-Wing vs TIE Fighter was on May 1997 issue:

Video Game Magazines

www.retromags.com

Googling seems to say that June 97 was the demo, but I can't see it on the cover on the above link. Maybe that link could help you recognise the cover.

Edit:

https://imgur.com/a/wabdzQM

View: https://imgur.com/a/wabdzQM

CD Gamer PC Gamer June 1997 Issue 44 CD-ROM : PC Gamer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

CD GamerPC GamerIssue 44

archive.org

 

[red_5ive]

Huh... that was just after the 20th anniversary of Star Wars. I remember taking a lunch break to go pick up tickets for the 20th anniversary theater release of Star Wars, which was also that sneaky Special Edition to boot. There were a few "little kids" already waiting in line for the first showing. I briefly chatted with them and said I was about their age when I first saw SW. They cheered/fist-pumped, "STAR WARS RULES!"

And now, even X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter (one of my all time favorite games by the way) is already older now than Star Wars was in '97. Where did the time go?

Sorry for the lack of contribution to this topic. I'm just having a nostalgic moment... <sniffle>