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Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol. 2 No. 2 (May/June 1989)


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*RESTORED kitsunebi edition!*

This is my new edit of marktrade's original scan and edit which is available in 600dpi at the Internet Archive.  Marktrade's scan was previously uploaded to Retromags, though that version does not appear to have received any additional edits aside from being resized closer to 300dpi and having the scan of the spine removed.

What I have tried to do with my edit is to breathe some life into the scan and restore what had been lost to the ravages of time.  In many cases, the primitive photography used in the game screenshots demanded that each screenshot on a page be edited separately to more accurately restore some of the colors that may not have been captured correctly even when the mag was fresh off the presses.  I hope you will agree that this is the best the mag has ever looked, but if you prefer the naturally aged/yellow look, marktrade's perfectly fine original scan/edit can be found HERE.

Here are some example pages of my edit compared with marktrade's edit (which is identical in appearance to the one previously made available here):

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This is the kind of magazine that might of caught my eye but probably wouldn't buy because of lack of money as a kid.

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Holy cow, this might be the best restoration I've ever seen from you (and that's saying something).

This is a work of art, no two ways about it. ❤️

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Poor @marktrade, just got 💩 on. But respectfully, of course. Both scans look good. I love that the "kitsunebi editions" are growing.

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2 hours ago, StrykerOfEnyo said:

Poor @marktrade, just got 💩 on. But respectfully, of course. Both scans look good. I love that the "kitsunebi editions" are growing.

Well that was certainly never my intent. 😟

Marktrade's scan is "au natural."  Mine is "newer than brand new."  Not everyone will prefer mine, some people like the naturally aged look of the former, which is why I made sure to provide a link to it at the Internet Archive.

The only possible disrespect around here I see is that marktrade is not credited as the editor of the "au natural" copy of this mag previously uploaded to Retromags, since if you compare it with the original copy he uploaded to the Internet Archive (which is where Retromags got a hold of it), it appears identical to the one uploaded here (other than the fact that the one uploaded here was resized down from 600 to 300 dpi.)

Years ago I uploaded some other issues of this same title to Retromags where I did the same thing - I took marktrade's 600dpi copy from IA, resized it, and uploaded it here (this was after marktrade stopped uploading to Retromags, but had given us permission to use his mags.)  The difference is, if you look at those mags in our database, you'll see that I credited marktrade as the editor, with myself as simply the uploader.  Resizing alone is not sufficient work to be credited as an editor.  Those mags (and this one) were already 100% edited by marktrade.  Resizing can be done with a single button press and takes only a couple of minutes to do the entire mag.  So doing that (and only that) and claiming credit as editor does seem disrespectful to me.

This edit wasn't like that by a long shot, however.  It took a SIGNIFICANT amount of time, much longer than most mags I've scanned myself.  I had to edit every single page separately (no blanket Photoshop "action sets" used here), with the text portions of each page edited separately from the image portions (and as I mentioned earlier, I would often have to edit individual screenshots on a single page differently from one another.)  So even though the basics (straighten/crop) weren't a concern, this was still an extensive editing job, thus why I feel comfortable taking credit for editing it.  I think you'll agree that (unlike the other copy uploaded to Retromags), there's no way you can accuse this one as looking exactly the same as the original.

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