KickStarter - The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium

[E-Day]

  On 4/8/2025 at 9:50 PM, TurnBasedPPS said:

I just got access to the archive.  Pretty sweet.  You can search for all articles about a game series, filter by game company, plus a review database

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It is pretty great. The indexing and search is something I had wished we could have done years ago.

 

Is also pretty clear that all their issues are our scans, except after it's return where theyre using their digital files that get sent to the printer. 

[TurnBasedPPS]

  On 4/8/2025 at 10:02 PM, E-Day said:

Is also pretty clear that all their issues are out scans, except after it's return where their using their digital files that get sent to the printer. 

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Out scans?

[kitsunebi]

  On 4/8/2025 at 10:52 PM, TurnBasedPPS said:

Out scans?

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A few typos in that sentence.  It should read:

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It's also pretty clear that all their issues are our scans, except after its return, where they're using their digital files that get sent to the printer.

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In other words, for most of their back catalog, EGM is selling access to scans they obtained from Retromags.  For new issues, they're not using scans, as the files are all digital.

[te72]

  On 2/17/2025 at 11:02 PM, TOLUST said:

FYI, if anyone is curious or wondering they're going to mail the book via USPS.

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I assumed it would be shipped via freight truck, because, you know, EGM issue sizes and all.

[kitsunebi]

  On 4/9/2025 at 3:40 AM, te72 said:

I assumed it would be shipped via freight truck, because, you know, EGM issue sizes and all.

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EGM issue sizes minus all of the advertising.

[TOLUST]

  On 4/9/2025 at 3:45 AM, kitsunebi said:

EGM issue sizes minus all of the advertising.

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haha I remember those 300+ pages of EGMS in my mailbox always with the Nov & Dec issues. 

[te72]

  On 4/9/2025 at 3:45 AM, kitsunebi said:

EGM issue sizes minus all of the advertising.

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I wish they'd bring back all the ads, those were fun back in the day.

[E-Day]

  On 4/9/2025 at 3:40 AM, kitsunebi said:

A few typos in that sentence.  It should read:

In other words, for most of their back catalog, EGM is selling access to scans they obtained from Retromags.  For new issues, they're not using scans, as the files are all digital.

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Yup. I am very typo prone when using my phone to post messages.

[Panleth]

Hey, Josh from EGM here. Now that things have calmed down a bit on the Archive launch, just wanted to hop in and offer a personal thank you for your support of the project here, and for your efforts in working on preserving the magazines for all these years.

We definitely couldn't have done this without your community, at least not at the level of quality and on the timetable we did. As many of you have pointed out, the bulk of the scanned material we're using definitely originated here. (We'd asked Phillyman for his blessing ahead of time, FWIW.) We did do our own clean up work (both image processing and fixing pagination errors), and we also did our own rescans of certain issues and missing or damaged pages within issues. But yeah, would've been impossible for us to make the whole history of EGM so accessible to people without the RetroMags community, so I wanted to let you know we're grateful.

If your scanning work wound up on our archive and you pledged to support the campaign, we'd like to give you a little bonus as a thank you, so please let me know here or send me an email (josh.harmon@egmnow.net) and I'll hook it up.

[E-Day]

  On 4/11/2025 at 11:37 PM, Panleth said:

If your scanning work wound up on our archive and you pledged to support the campaign, we'd like to give you a little bonus as a thank you, so please let me know here or send me an email (josh.harmon@egmnow.net) and I'll hook it up.

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I am going to take you up on that offer!

[TOLUST]

  On 4/11/2025 at 11:37 PM, Panleth said:

Hey, Josh from EGM here. Now that things have calmed down a bit on the Archive launch, just wanted to hop in and offer a personal thank you for your support of the project here, and for your efforts in working on preserving the magazines for all these years.

We definitely couldn't have done this without your community, at least not at the level of quality and on the timetable we did. As many of you have pointed out, the bulk of the scanned material we're using definitely originated here. (We'd asked Phillyman for his blessing ahead of time, FWIW.) We did do our own clean up work (both image processing and fixing pagination errors), and we also did our own rescans of certain issues and missing or damaged pages within issues. But yeah, would've been impossible for us to make the whole history of EGM so accessible to people without the RetroMags community, so I wanted to let you know we're grateful.

If your scanning work wound up on our archive and you pledged to support the campaign, we'd like to give you a little bonus as a thank you, so please let me know here or send me an email (josh.harmon@egmnow.net) and I'll hook it up.

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Josh, that is very nice of you to acknowledge and thank us .

[dablais]

  On 4/11/2025 at 11:37 PM, Panleth said:

Hey, Josh from EGM here. Now that things have calmed down a bit on the Archive launch, just wanted to hop in and offer a personal thank you for your support of the project here, and for your efforts in working on preserving the magazines for all these years.

We definitely couldn't have done this without your community, at least not at the level of quality and on the timetable we did. As many of you have pointed out, the bulk of the scanned material we're using definitely originated here. (We'd asked Phillyman for his blessing ahead of time, FWIW.) We did do our own clean up work (both image processing and fixing pagination errors), and we also did our own rescans of certain issues and missing or damaged pages within issues. But yeah, would've been impossible for us to make the whole history of EGM so accessible to people without the RetroMags community, so I wanted to let you know we're grateful.

If your scanning work wound up on our archive and you pledged to support the campaign, we'd like to give you a little bonus as a thank you, so please let me know here or send me an email (josh.harmon@egmnow.net) and I'll hook it up.

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I’ll be more than interested as well!

[TurnBasedPPS]

Congrats to EGM and the Retromags community!

[E-Day]

I just took the latest survey they sent out. Among voting for some of the stretch goal options, there were also questions about future projects and additions. I am all for it.

[Predsboy18]

  On 4/15/2025 at 7:11 PM, E-Day said:

I just took the latest survey they sent out. Among voting for some of the stretch goal options, there were also questions about future projects and additions. I am all for it.

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I would absolutely love if they expanded beyond just EGM, and be yet another resource for gaming history, as we can't have too many of those!