KiwiArcader's Work In Progress

[KiwiArcader]

Here's something some people may like. Game Players PC Strategy Guide (Jul/Aug 1991) is now available at OGM. I received a box of magazines containing five issues of this title along a a lot of Computer Games: Strategy Plus magazines from the USA today. This is the first release of many ...

 

[kitsunebi]

Awesome news, indeed!  PC Gamer may be my all-time favorite mag, but the different iterations of Game Player's PC are special to me, since they're one of the only magazines I used to own, but no longer do.  Why I got rid of them when I kept everything else, I'll never know, but every issue I replace (including this one) takes away a bit of the pain.  Thanks!

 

Anybody who wants to see more of these, check out Kiwi's site and consider a donation.  These are being sent to him by someone in the USA, but shipping to New Zealand ain't cheap!

[KiwiArcader]

Another previously unscanned magazine arrives in the form of Computer Games issue 136. Grab it over at OGM

 

 

[KiwiArcader]

Game Players PC Strategy Guide (Mar/Apr 1991) is now available at OGM.

 

[kitsunebi]

Woo hoo!  I remember this issue so well.  King's Quest V was the most graphically amazing game I had ever seen, but it was also the breaking point for my computer at the time.  I didn't have a VGA display, and although there was an EGA version, my computer only had 2 5.25" DD disk drives.  The game only shipped with 3.25" DD and 5.25" HD disks though, and although you could mail away for 5.25" DD disks, they had to be installed on a hard drive, since there were so damn many of them.  Alas, I had no hard drive, either.

 

So I can remember spending many long hours reading and re-reading this and other GamePlayer's PC mags, as well as Sierra's Interaction magazine, marveling at the beautiful VGA graphics and dreaming of the day when I could somehow convince my parents that we needed a new computer.

 

Incidentally, when we finally DID get a new PC, the first game I got was the CD-ROM version of King's Quest VI.

[KiwiArcader]

This issue, like so many others, was cut badly with everything on quite an angle on the page so I had to do a fair bit of editing to get everything straight. Additionally, there was a knife cut down the centre of the cover (check out page two to see what I mean) so that required some cloning to remove it. Still, quite nice she looks now   

[KiwiArcader]

Game Players PC Strategy Guide (Jan/Feb 1991) is now available at OGM.

 

[kitsunebi]

In retrospect it's odd that I owned all of these issues, since I'm pretty sure our family computer at the time wasn't powerful enough to run practically any of the games being covered.  I guess the fact that I spent my pittance of an allowance on it anyway says something for how much I enjoyed reading the mag.

[Areala]

In retrospect it's odd that I owned all of these issues, since I'm pretty sure our family computer at the time wasn't powerful enough to run practically any of the games being covered.  I guess the fact that I spent my pittance of an allowance on it anyway says something for how much I enjoyed reading the mag.

 

*laugh* I can totally relate. I would occasionally buy magazines for systems I didn't own, and PC-related stuff was no exception. I didn't have anything that could be considered an actual PC until 1995, but I still bought computer-related mags in the late 80s and early 90s, just because.

 

*huggles*

Areala

[KiwiArcader]

No different really than someone buying a book on Lamborghini's or such like and who is never going to be in a position to purchase said car.....

[KiwiArcader]

Game Players PC Strategy Guide (May/June 1991) is now available at OGM.

 

[KiwiArcader]

Game Players PC Strategy Guide (Nov/Dec 1991) is now available at OGM. Dates weren't displayed inside the magazine as per previous issues so it's a guess based upon the bi-monthly nature of previous issues. happy to be corrected on this though. This is the last issue I received in the latest shipment from our kind donor. Back to Computer Games: Strategy Plus until/if I receive another shipment.

 

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 161 is now available at OGM.

 

[KiwiArcader]

It's that time again with Computer Games issue 147 now available over at OGM

 

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 120 is now available at OGM. Eight issues left to scan from my current donation pile.....

 

[KiwiArcader]

Time for another issue of PC Gamer (USA) methinks so marktrade's raw scans of issue 14 get the treatment. Grab it over at OGM.

 

[kitsunebi]

Awesome mag!  Boring game!  Thank you Kiwi!  Thanks for nothing, LucasArts!

 

 

Errr...just one problem.  WHERE IS IT?

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 131 is now available at OGM. Hopefully the visibility issues on Google are a thing of the past for this title now

 

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games: Strategy Plus issue 61 is now available at OGM.

 

[KiwiArcader]

issue 05 of Play is now available at OGM. Thanks once again to marktrade for providing the raw scans  

 

[KiwiArcader]

Also available now is PC Gamer (USA) issue 86 ....

 

[KiwiArcader]

PC Gamer (USA) issue 08 is now available at OGM. The cover on this issue was a shocker!!! Some amount of editing later I think it now looks great!!!

 

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games: Strategy Plus issue 63 is now available at OGM. She's a beaut too    

 

[KiwiArcader]

Seeing as it's listed in the magazine database I thought I'd throw this into my W.I.P. Issue 11 of PC Format is now available at OGM. The early releases of this title had significant game coverage. This issue is no exception ...

 

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 139 is now available at OGM