Meet The Yugoslavian PC Mag Cover Girls of the 80s and 90s

[Steven Bogos]

Meet The Yugoslavian PC Mag Cover Girls of the 80s and 90s

Yugoslavian PC magazine Racunari's covers need to be seen to be believed.

Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore, but when it did, it had a small computing magazine called Racunari. The title simply means "computers" in Bosnian and the contents of the magazine were very simple, bland, technical descriptions of computers and computer parts. Its covers, on the other hand, were a completely different story.

Flashbak [http://flashbak.com/yugoslavian-computer-magazine-cover-girls-of-the-1980s-90s-370271/] has collected some of the raunchiest covers from the magazine's run, which lasted from 1984 all the way into the late 1990s. None of my descriptions would ever do these covers justice, so I'll just let you check them out for yourselves:

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These are just a few of our favorites. Be sure to check out the full article [http://flashbak.com/yugoslavian-computer-magazine-cover-girls-of-the-1980s-90s-370271/] to see even more Eastern Bloc beauties.



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[TelosSupreme]

Seems like they were trying to do something like Sports Illustrated for geeks. Really neat find, always fun to see any kind of historical artifacts from former countries. It's like a piece of a culture only recently lost to time (the fact that I'm listening to a Journeyman Project remix as I write this really helps set the mood).

 

[Tanis]

Slow...very slow...news day?
XD

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I recall a number of western gaming magazines that tried something similar in the early 00's when they were trying to stave off the inevitable.

 

[Thaluikhain]

From the headline, I was assuming they'd be attending a con somewhere or something.

 

[JCAll]

I recall a number of western gaming magazines that tried something similar in the early 00's when they were trying to stave off the inevitable.

I remember one of the Playstation magazines having an actual annual swimsuit issue.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I remember one of the Playstation magazines having an actual annual swimsuit issue.

I must have missed that one. The first one I remember was a U.K magazine that had some half naked military themed photoshoot for one of the Command & Conquer games. There was another that had a girl dressed as sexy-ish Chun Li for a review of Street Fighter Alpha, don't recall if it was a U.K or U.S magazine though.

 

[Veylon]

Look at the cover pictures. Look at the cover text. They don't even exist in the same thematic universe. It's like looking at magazine covers from an alternate reality where there's some unspoken bit of universally understood subtext that ties the two together there but is missing here.

 

[Bedinsis]

I cannot really say that I feel particularly enlightened by this article, nor particularly intrigued.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

I must have missed that one. The first one I remember was a U.K magazine that had some half naked military themed photoshoot for one of the Command & Conquer games. There was another that had a girl dressed as sexy-ish Chun Li for a review of Street Fighter Alpha, don't recall if it was a U.K or U.S magazine though.

That wasn't particularly unusual for some UK Playstation mags IIRC, from not too long after they came out. The Playstation got a lot of mainstream popularity among the young adult boy-racer/student/lad/clubber etc demographic, much like the X-box got popular with the "bro gamer" in the US (assuming my understanding of across the pond is correct).

Look at the cover pictures. Look at the cover text. They don't even exist in the same thematic universe. It's like looking at magazine covers from an alternate reality where there's some unspoken bit of universally understood subtext that ties the two together there but is missing here.

I dunno, the first 3 or 4 at least go for a sort of sexy secretary/boss/businesswoman kind of look. Then it just goes, fuck it...swimsuits, little black evening dress, bondage...

There's some even more ridiculous ones on the original article

Spoiler: What is happening here? Is this some sort of Rule 63 porn of The Ring? I don't get it

Spoiler: I'm on a bike, in the middle of nowhere, I have a keyboard. Even the model is like, what the fuck is going on here?

Spoiler: I have a broken jaw or some shit, and I've tied it up with...ummm...old computer tape I guess?

Spoiler: Uhhh...more computer tape I guess

Spoiler: Fuck it, we can't be bothered anymore

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

These are so bizarre. I spent a year and a half in Croatia. I can actually translate most of the text. This is Serbian language though, but they're very similar.

 

[StatusNil]

This is fantastic, challenging art. I do have to take issue with the failure to represent the individual works in a chronological sequence, though.

 

[moosemaimer]

I have nearly every issue of PC Accelerator and it's not too far off.

 

[NPC009]

Well, that escalated. First two are like, well, you can atleast imagine these attractive young women in office/business attire actually use the computers they share the cover with. After that it starts getting weirder and weirder.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

They sure like their pantyhose up in Yugoslavia.

 

[J.McMillen]

I have nearly every issue of PC Accelerator and it's not too far off.

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I remember that one. Got the last few issues before it went under.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Those 5 3/4" disks are really something!

 

[The Enquirer]

Those 5 3/4" disks are really something!

Yea, the measurements on those are incredible.

Ok, but seriously, this is fucking hysterical. For gaming I could understand since the whole booth babe thing turned out to be logical progression, but for what's essentially technical manuals, this is just incredible.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Your Sinclair magazine, issue 29 (UK, May 1988)...

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[Al_]

UK general Tech mags T3 and Stuff (among others) were still doing this sort of thing into the 2010s