Presenting RETRO MAGS!

[Phillyman]

After months of behind-the-scenes deliberation, infused with a ridiculous amount of name-calling, indian leg wrestling, and wedgies, the administrators have reached their conclusion and are now ready to share it with the rest of the community.

Presenting: RETRO MAGS!

Ruminate with us for a bit. You'll notice that nowhere on the site does it specifically state we are set up to only scan and host old magazines about computers and video games, and every so often we'll receive a request from a user inquiring about whether or not we handle this or that sort of publication, or help finding out-of-print periodicals of various sorts. Fishing magazines. Car magazines. Science magazines. There's a magazine for everything, and if there isn't now, then there probably was in decades past.

It's true!

Literally starting today, Retromags is going to become your one-stop shop for everything related to old school magazines. Hobbyist publications, consumer reference, news and entertainment...it's all coming both soon and now. Just think: your dad may finally track down that issue of Organic Gardner he read as a lad! Your grandmother may thrill to a digital version of the doll collector's monthly she subscribed to twenty years ago! Those classic 80's knitting patterns? They're going to be here too! Vintage Wrestling quarterlies, 1960's era Hot Rod publications, celebrity gossip rags from back when the hair, the shoulder pads, and the feuds were larger than life?

Forget download limits. These files are big, beautiful, and cleaned up to current-year specs as best that we (and Photoshop) can accomplish. To prove we aren't kidding, we've got a handful of brand new releases we've been holding back on for this very announcement.

Only you guys could make it possible, with your contributions of time, energy, and cold, hard cash. Especially that last part. Thank you, anonymous donor who wishes to remain anonymous for that sudden infusion back in February.

Obviously this is going to require a bit of a site overhaul. Expect to see some serious changes to the way things like the databases are structured as we get things in line with the new, expanded concept. We're aiming to add roughly a dozen different categories per week, then new sub-categories within them similar to the way the gaming magazines are currently broken down by area of release, then name of publication. It's a lot of work, and not something which can be done all at once, but we're going to push on as best we can.

Limited site downtime and outages may occur infrequently as we make these changes. The forum software is robust, but we're going to be subjecting it to an awful lot of stretching in directions we aren't sure Invision means for it to stretch. Errors may crop up here and there, and if so, we hope you'll be patient with us. If it all goes as planned, these relics of yester-year will be hosted, preserved forever for future generations to marvel and laugh at. We spared no expense scouring the seedy underbellies of auction sites, hunting for the weirdest, tackiest, most off-beat examples we could find to show we mean business when we say, "At Retromags, we scan it all!"

Sincerely - Phillyman, E-Day, Areala, and the rest of the Retromags staff!

[kitsunebi]

Whew.  The wait is finally over and I can come clean.  You guys remember when I disappeared for a month a little while back?  I tried to cover it up with an explanation of burnout, but the truth was...I was working with Phillyman full-time behind the scenes to make sure the rollout of RETRO MAGS would be truly special.  For one entire month, I spent every spare minute scanning and editing a beautiful run of pristine condition issues of Cat Fancy which will be uploaded with the launch of the new site.  Hold onto your whiskers, kids!  They'll be coming your way soon!

[Phillyman]

The beginning of a new era!

Download Section!

[MigJmz]

Didn't see that commin'. Great news. Now I wish i didnt trashed all those PC World's I had and such

Edited April 1, 2019 by MigJmz

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Sheep magazine? Haha, I didn't realize something like that existed.

I wonder if there is a "Watching Paint Dry" magazine.

[Phillyman]

4 minutes ago, Ethereal Dragonz said:

Sheep magazine? Haha, I didn't realize something like that existed.

I wonder if there is a "Watching Paint Dry" magazine.

Its possible, don't forget to download a copy of the Chicken magazine as well. I have some bids on Lighthouse and Train magazines for next week!

[E-Day]

We encourage everyone to download the new issues and check them out. Some of them are quite fascinating.

[Phillyman]

1 minute ago, E-Day said:

We encourage everyone to download the new issues and check them out. Some of them are quite fascinating.

I bet people think that if they download them, that the covers are those magazines but the insides are more COMPUTE'S

I assure you guys, the mags are real!

[chelo]

it's april fool´s joke???

 

[Leathco]

Wow, I actually remember Rip magazine from the late 90s, it competed with Hit Parader here in the US for metal and rock magazines, which died when the Rock and Metal music genre went underground.  Myself, I'm still a metal fan (mostly listen to Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, Blaze, Judas Priest, Gamma Ray, Helloween, Blind Guardian, stuff like that) while the rest of the world has moved on to preferring country, rap, or pop.  I do some modern rock, like Disturbed, but mostly stick with the older bands, especially if they are still active (and honestly Maiden still puts out great new material).  The fact that you guys actually got copies of all these and scanned them for April 1st is great, and actually brought back some childhood memories, as I had forgotten all about Rip and Hit Parader until today.

[Daedalus]

Is there a way to filter the news on the main page so that only new video game magazine posts are shown?  I really don't care about any of these non-vg vintage magazines.

[E-Day]

5 minutes ago, Daedalus said:

Is there a way to filter the news on the main page so that only new video game magazine posts are shown?  I really don't care about any of these non-vg vintage magazines.

I don't foresee many non video game magazines being released. I think people will continue to focus on video game magazines, though with the miscellaneous section staying up past April fools day, people can technically even anything now

[Phillyman]

Just now, E-Day said:

I don't foresee many non video game magazines being released. I think people will continue to focus on video game magazines, though with the miscellaneous section staying up past April fools day, people can technically even anything now

Well there is that one member that joined up recently with all the knitting magazines, but I think that collection is only 168 magazines.

[Areala]

In case anybody was unsure, go back and read the first letter of each paragraph up there in Phillyman's post.

*huggles*
Areala

[Phillyman]

Yes today is April Fools, but the magazines above are real. No they won't Rick Roll you if you click on them

So those are really Retromags releases! They are not going anywhere. The April Fools part was to act as though we got bored with scanning old gaming magazines. The truthful part is that we won't deny someone from posting a non gaming magazine from here on out. I can't say that I will ever scan another skateboarding or doll magazine in the future. I probably won't purchase any either, but if someone is out there and they want to scan the missing 4 issues of Sheep!.......well they have a home here!

No we probably won't expand the magazine database or gallery sections, but the Misc section in the Download section will stay for anyone who wishes to use it. It will be fun to see what comes of this, if anything.

Anyhow, thanks for the fun today!

[kitsunebi]

9 minutes ago, Phillyman said:

, but if someone is out there and they want to scan the missing 4 issues of Sheep!.......well they have a home here!
 

YES PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!

[godane]

I did some crazy scans awhile back of Scubapro Diving and Snorkeling magazine. I also have done world war and military history magazines.

I done 272 scans and not all are computer/gaming books. I made a list posted it on github for you guys to find them all. Here is the the link below:

https://github.com/godane/godane-scan-magazines-books

I have done some scans like Disney Adventure magazine for example also.

[zdarfan]

This is the good kind of April Fool's gag. Hats off to you all!

(I really am gonna grab Wrestler and Thrasher, though)

[twiztor]

So, i bought and scanned both issues of the Where's Waldo magazine from the early '90s. I know it's not retro video game related, but kind of a neat obscure little mag anyway. Here's some archive.org links for anyone interested. 

https://archive.org/details/whereswaldo01

https://archive.org/details/whereswaldo02