Riso-printed since 2016 · Richmond, Melbourne
Ink-stained dispatches from the frontlines of play.
GoldenBattleLegends is a Melbourne gaming zine: long-form reviews, retro battle chronicles, and hands-on hardware teardowns — printed loud, argued louder.
Our print history
Ten years, ink on our hands.
2016 — The first staple
Two friends and a borrowed Risograph in a Church Street garage printed 80 copies of Issue One, a scrappy love letter to couch co-op.
2019 — Weekly online
We took the zine's voice online with weekly reviews and our now-signature retro battle chronicles, keeping the halftone grain intact.
2022 — The teardown lab
A back-room bench in Richmond became our hardware lab, where we restore and photograph consoles for the Restorations gallery.
2026 — 14,000 readers
Today a small independent team ships a quarterly print run and a members' feed to more than fourteen thousand readers worldwide.
What we publish
The columns on every page.
The restoration bench
Drag to reveal the rescue.
Each teardown is photographed before and after. Slide the handle to compare.
Before
Before
From the mailbag
What readers keep telling us.
"The teardown of my old handheld gave me the exact capacitor list I needed. Fixed it in a weekend after two shops said it was dead."
"Finally a review site that plays the whole game. Their 40-hour verdict on the RPG I was eyeing saved me from a very expensive mistake."
"I subscribe just for the print zine. The riso colours and misregistered covers look incredible framed on my studio wall."
"The scene report pointed me to a Thursday tournament night five minutes from my flat. Met my whole fighting-game crew there."
Support the press
Pick your print run.
Prices in AUD, billed monthly, cancel anytime. Print tiers ship worldwide from Richmond VIC.
Reader
A$0/mo
- ✓ Full web archive of reviews
- ✓ Weekly column, ad-light
- ✓ Community comments
Member
A$9/mo
- ✓ Everything in Reader, ad-free
- ✓ Early access to teardowns
- ✓ Members-only battle chronicles
- ✓ Monthly digital zine PDF
Print Club
A$24/mo
- ✓ Everything in Member
- ✓ Quarterly riso zine, posted
- ✓ Numbered limited-edition prints
- ✓ Name in every colophon
Say hello
Pitch us, or just chat.
Story tips, review requests, restoration jobs, or a note about a typo — the whole team reads the inbox.
- Phone
- +61 3 9918 7205
- [email protected]
- Studio
- 67 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 10am–6pm AEST · Bench tours by appointment