Cgw Issues 1-100

[cdoty]

Issues of Computer Gaming World 1-100 can be downloaded from:

http://static.filefront.com/cgw/1991_09_issue86.pdf

http://static.filefront.com/cgw/1991_10_issue87.pdf

http://static.filefront.com/cgw/1991_11_issue88.pdf

http://static.filefront.com/cgw/1991_12_issue89.pdf

up to...

http://static.filefront.com/cgw/1992_11_issue100.pdf

You will need to figure out the issue month and year for each issue, but it follows the same pattern.

A better source is:

http://cgw.vintagegaming.org/

[vipor231]

is there anyway of getting the cgw magazines after 100,i really am trying to get ahold of the 1995-1997 mags cuz i used to have these

[aussie500]

l just used this page to download those up to 100, never found any of the later ones, the first 100 issues came to 2.83Gb

http://pdf.textfiles.com/zines/CGW/

[kbf_private_joker]

The site http://cgw.vintagegaming.org/ explains that it was an effort by the vintage gaming community to scan all of those magazines. At first I thought it was CGW that did the releasing, but it turns out that a CGW fan went on a collecting mission to get the first 100 magazines, then started scanning them. He eventually got the attention of CGW and not until the last few years have they been supportive. You can read about the process here: http://cgw.vintagegaming.org/columns/index...20170c015c2544d

[meppi]

The site http://cgw.vintagegaming.org/ explains that it was an effort by the vintage gaming community to scan all of those magazines. At first I thought it was CGW that did the releasing, but it turns out that a CGW fan went on a collecting mission to get the first 100 magazines, then started scanning them. He eventually got the attention of CGW and not until the last few years have they been supportive. You can read about the process here: http://cgw.vintagegaming.org/columns/index...20170c015c2544d

Very interesting reading material.

If only other publishers were so cooperative. I've read about the Super Play debacle that got Mort in trouble a while ago.

Seemed that Future publishing didn't like the idea of scanning a magazine that stopped being published over 10 years ago.

Perhaps it had to do with him also selling them on DVD, but in the end I believe it wouldn't have made much difference...

I simply don't understand how a publisher would rather have the old magazines ( in which they don't have any interest in anymore) be lost so that noone can ever read it, instead of having a dedicated group of people try and preserve the old works.

The quick answer would be profit, but they aren't making a cent on the magazine anyway. And they don't have any intent of re-releasing older magazines in any form. So to me it just doensn't make sense.

[kbf_private_joker]

They could really make some money if magazines (the ones that still exist) wanted to re-release the old mags in a digital format. Heck, for all the work we put into scanning them, I would gladly pay a few $ per magazine. Considering it takes about 4 hours of scanning, editing, and putting together the info, that would be money well spent.

-Noah