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PC Gamer UK Issue 074 (October 1999)

115 downloads

PC Gamer UK Issue 74 (October 1999) *2 pages half scanned

Sunday at 09:20 PM

11 points

Nintendo Strategies (1989)

127 downloads

This is the original printing with a square-bound white cover. It appears to have been reprinted several times, each with differences to the cover and/or title. Variations include: red spiral-bound cover with the same "Nintendo Strategies" title. red squarebound cover under the title "Strategies for Nintendo Games" yellow spiral-bound cover under the title "Strategies for Nintendo Games" So far as I know, the contents of all 4 editions are identical.

Sunday at 08:31 PM

11 points

PC Games Vol. 03 No. 06 (June 1996)

150 downloads

*kitsunebi edition* There was already a very good scan of this issue made available here, but this is my all new scan and edit. I think it offers some improvements, but encourage you to give it a look and decide for yourself. Some differences include: slightly whiter pages more complete scan of each page from edge to edge (the older scan was presumably debound with a guillotine cutter, while this was debound with a heat gun, ensuring the entire page could be scanned) more seamless joins of images that spread across facing pages inclusion of an alternate 3-page spread of the opening fold-out ad. This ad was designed so that, after opening the cover, you would see two facing pages. Next, you would unfold the left page, which would display two new pages that would then seamlessly become a single 3-page image along with the original right-side page. Thus, the right-side page would essentially be seen twice - facing the original left side page, and also as part of the three-page join once the left-side page was unfolded. Both versions are included here for the first time to simulate the intended effect of the original ad. (One of the advantages of using a CBR reader is that this will cause no problems regardless of whether you are using single or two-page viewing mode. If you are using a PDF reader (such as Sumatra) to read your CBR files...WHY?! Seriously, you're using the wrong type of program LOL. As such, the intended order of facing pages may not display correctly, but what did you expect - this isn't a PDF. ) inclusion of scans of subscription cards inclusion of scans of included demo CD sleeve and disc (and I've uploaded the ISO of said disc HERE.) Here are a couple of comparisons showing how two-page joins in this scan are more complete. You can see how the older version is missing information near the center of the join: This is just a regular page to show the slight difference in overall page coloration:

February 23

11 points

PC Gaming World Issue 34 (October 1999)

133 downloads

PC Gaming World Issue 34 (October 1999) Missing page 29 and 30.

February 15

11 points

Computer Gaming World Issue 122 (September 1994)

139 downloads

Computer Gaming World Issue 122 (September 1994) *missing pages*

February 14

11 points

PC Gaming World Issue 25 (Christmas-New Year 1999)

141 downloads

PC Gaming World Issue 25 (Christmas-New Year 1999)

February 9

11 points

Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook Volume 05 Issue 05 (1998)

141 downloads

Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook Volume 05 Issue 05 (1998)

February 28

10 points

Tips & Tricks Video-Game Codebook Volume 08 Issue 06 (2001)

132 downloads

Tips & Tricks Video-Game Codebook Volume 08 Issue 06 (2001)

February 22

10 points

Starfox Adventures - Official Perfect Guide - Volume 45 (2002) [GC]

145 downloads

Versus Books - Volume 45 Starfox Adventures - Official Perfect Guide Platform: GameCube

February 17

10 points

Super Power Issue 018 (December 1995)

54 downloads

Super Power Issue 18 (December 1995) Super Power 12/1995

Tuesday at 07:44 PM

9 points

Games for Windows Issue 17 (April 2008)

141 downloads

This is the final issue of Games for Windows. It could also be considered the final issue of Computer Gaming World, since that's what it was before they (unwisely) changed the name. And I'd like to say it's the final issue needed to complete our collection of this title, but unfortunately we're still missing issue 5. Phillyman owns it. It's in a box he has in storage. Pester him if you want to see it scanned. Don't worry, there's nothing he likes more than a good pestering. I for one am glad to be done editing issues of this title. I scanned 15 issues out of GfW's 17 issue run, and every single one of them had an obscene amount of elements spread across both pages, forcing me to edit them together as a single image to ensure perfect joins in two-page view before splitting them back apart for the CBR. This issue had 64 pages that had to be joined. And it's only a 100 page mag! I shake my fist at you, GfW art director, whoever you were...

February 7

9 points

Ultra Player Issue 32 (November/December 1995)

42 downloads

Ultra Player Issue 32 (November/December 1995)

February 27

8 points

Edge Issue 081 (February 2000)

115 downloads

Edge Issue 81 (February 2000)

February 25

8 points

Super Mario Advance - Official Perfect Guide - Volume 26 (2001) [GBA]

170 downloads

Super Mario Advance - Official Perfect Guide - Volume 26 Platform: Game Boy Advance

February 18

8 points

Game Developer Issue 065 (April 2001)

86 downloads

Game Developer Issue 65 (April 2001)

February 18

8 points

Famitsu Issue 1372 (April 2/9, 2015)

58 downloads

298 pgs I'll be honest, I've never played any games made after 2008 or so. So I can't offer any anecdotes about anything in this mag, and there would be no point in trying to look up info on any of the games in it since most people visiting this site probably already know whatever I could turn up. So I thought about talking about the Jpop group given a 4 page feature, Country Girls, but...sigh...I hate Jpop. Here's the single they were promoting this issue. Maybe you share my opinion or maybe you think this tune slaps : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1tj7Q1UxXY So instead I'll talk about Yuusha Yoshihiko (The Hero Yoshihiko), a 3 season TV series from 2011-2016. It has nothing to do with this issue, but you may find it interesting, nonetheless. It's a parody of JRPGs, Dragon Quest in particular, and they even got approval from Square Enix to utilize a lot of Dragon Quest monsters and the like. Of course, the show proudly proclaims its "no budget" status, so the monsters are mostly paper mache and guys in leotards and masks (they rarely show up for more than cameo appearances, anyway). I haven't finished watching the whole series, but so far the second season is not as good as the first. The whole thing is ostensibly terrible, of course, but it's silly enough to have made me LOL several times. Fair warning: it can be very politically incorrect sometimes. The good news is, you can watch the entire thing subtitled in English on the Internet Archive HERE. If anyone gives it a watch, I'd like to hear your take on it.

Saturday at 07:28 AM

7 points

Edge Issue 056 (March 1998)

147 downloads

Edge Issue 56 (March 1998)

February 21

7 points

Game Developer Issue 080 (July 2002)

73 downloads

Game Developer Issue 80 (July 2002)

February 17

7 points

Edge Issue 032 (May 1996)

149 downloads

Edge Issue 32 (May 1996)

February 9

7 points

Famitsu Issue 1373 (April 9, 2015)

42 downloads

285 pgs I've always wondered just what type of game Senran Kagura is. So I looked it up on Wikipedia, but after reading the entire description and not seeing the word "boobs" even once, I realized that the Wikipedia page must have been talking about some other game.

18 hours ago

6 points

Comptiq No.235 (December 2001)

Version 1.0.0

46 downloads

I uploaded the included CD-ROM HERE

February 15

6 points

Star Trek - The Official Monthly Magazine 011 (January 1996)

Version 1.0.0

39 downloads

Mags debound and shipped across the sea by yours truly, and scanned by J of Oz. This title remains a total b!%ch and a half to edit. I can only get through about 10 pages per hour - it's a nightmare. Luckily for the world, the resulting edited files mean that no one will ever be forced to look at brown-haloed copies of these mags ever again. Digital preservation ftw.

February 19

5 points

Famitsu Issue 1369 (March 12, 2015)

57 downloads

246 pgs. Another edit finished, another magazine tossed into the recycling bin. And yet the pile of mags waiting to be scanned never gets any smaller. Indeed, just when you think you're making progress clearing out the mags cluttering your home by the box-load, you "accidentally" buy some more. In your head, you know what you're doing is abhorrently wrong, but just like this duck, your body has a mind of its own and your finger clicks the "buy it now" button before your brain has a chance to stop it. You hang your head in shame. This is the scanner's own private hell.

February 18

5 points

Famitsu Issue 1367 (February 26, 2015)

72 downloads

So it seems the editors of Famitsu thought that people would like to see Persona 5 on the cover. I mean, sure - on a NORMAL day, that might be the case. But how they decided to go with Persona 5 when they had this in the same issue, will forever be a mystery: This is Tsuri Bit. Which means "fishing bit." Note the fishing rods? Wikipedia tells me that this jpop idol group formed out of a desire to sing, dance...and fish. Their concept: You can't even make this stuff up. Based on views, this seems to be their biggest hit, from around the time this magazine came out (the song's title is "I'm going to dance, fish" presumably meaning "I'm going to dance and fish," or maybe "I'm going to dance, then fish" and not someone addressing a fish and telling it that they're going to dance. Though I suppose it could be that...)

February 14

5 points

Star Trek - The Official Monthly Magazine 010 (December 1995)

Version 1.0.0

46 downloads

Scanned by J of Oz For once I can't show you a before and after comparison of the raw vs edited pages, since I already deleted the raw files - oops. Suffice it to say, what you'll find here once again is an edit of the mag that looks light years better than the hot-off-the-scanner pages did, and probably looks better than it did when they were hot off the press. Can I get a George Takei "Oh my!"???

February 9

5 points

Famitsu Issue 1370 (March 19, 2015)

49 downloads

So here's a fun PS3/PS4 game. Take photos of girls in compromising positions - up skirts and down shirts. If the girls aren't posing in a way convenient for your photos? No problem - just do a slide or lay down on the ground and you'll have those panty shots in no time. OH NOES! HERE COMES THE PERVERT POLICE!! Run away to be a sexual predator another day! Wheee!!! Did you all know that there's an actual law in Japan that makes it illegal to sell any camera (including those on mobile devices) that doesn't make a loud "click" shutter noise when a photo is taken? This noise cannot be disabled, and finding a workaround is illegal. That's because of shit like this game happening in real life. But I guess you aren't allowed to murder people in real life, either, and we've got thousands of games where that's the goal, so...yay, lets take photos of underage high school girls' panties without their consent.

February 26

4 points

Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Famitsu's first-ever perfect score!!! (So what??)

Somehow, a random story showed up in my phone's newsfeed where people were bitching about the state of gaming mag preservation. The example they used to illustrate their point (that much of the most important gaming history remains unpreserved) was the fact that Famitsu's review of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is not readily available as a scan. This review was famous for being the first game ever to receive a perfect score of 40 (10s from all four reviewers) since Famitsu's launch in 1986. Well, I happen to have that issue, and while I haven't gotten around to scanning it yet, I decided to do a quickie scan of that page on my flatbed so that anyone wanting to see this "important piece of history" can do so in 600dpi. Except...is it REALLY all that important? Famitsu uses the "review crew" system that EGM directly copied, with 4 reviewers giving their opinions in a tiny little box that only accommodates 3 or 4 sentences at most. So just like EGM, these are, by design, some of the least in-depth reviews that have ever been written. To be fair though, even 3 or 4 sentences are like a Russian novel compared to SOME of EGM's reviews. Ahem: Anyway, I ran the Zelda review through google translate for anyone too lazy to do it themselves, and reformatted it to be easier to see here (sorry, google translate outputs super low-res images): So there it is. Important? I mean, I guess the first perfect score from Famitsu's notoriously picky reviewers is historically significant, but we didn't need a scan to know that. Is there any important history contained in the actual reviews? Well...I guess it depends on your point of view. On the one hand, maybe all printed matter is historically important, regardless of the quality or significance of what is said. On the other hand, there are far more in-depth and informative reviews written by random people on Gamefaqs or Amazon reviews or personal blogs or wherever, but are people clamoring to preserve those as history? Food for thought. If anyone wants to download the original (untranslated) scan of this page in 600dpi, here you go: https://i.postimg.cc/D7vDY9xh/Scan-20250218.jpg

February 21

4 points

Book of Life - The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of the Human Mind and Body (1971)

40 downloads

Note: the CBZ version of Book of Life is over 3GB. If you are using the old version of CDisplay you will not be able to open the file. Use CDisplayEx or something newer. There are 4 download files: The Book of Life Index in CBZ and searchable PDF format The full Book of Life encyclopedia in CBZ and searchable PDF format. This file is 2,949 pages.

February 28

3 points

Famitsu Issue 1365 (February 12, 2015)

65 downloads

I had a certain song playing through my head while flipping through this mag, looking for my random "about this file" comment. The version on Youtube is from an older version of the 5th grade elementary school English textbooks, and has been updated for the newer ones with new music and lyrics (same refrain and melody, though), but the newer version isn't on Youtube, so far as I know. But it's ironic? fitting? that the song (Yokoso! Welcome to Japan) was stuck in my head when I came across a page featuring this toy: A twin-barrel battleship gun emplacement...that couldn't be more Japanese if it tried. I think foreigners who have never been to Japan watch some anime or some wacky Japanese commercials or whatever and think that Japan must be some zany place fully of quirky people doing quirky things like they saw once on a game show or in a video of an idol concert in Akihabara or something. But it's actually a really quiet, ordinary place. Except for the cuteness. Everywhere you look, CUTE CUTE CUTE. The kawaii aesthetic is everywhere. Please observe exhibit A, a collection of roadside construction barriers. So why not make cute anthropomorphic guns? If you absolutely positively HAD to be shot out of the sky, wouldn't you prefer it be by something adorable?

February 10

3 points

Game Informer Issue 261 (January 2015)

232 downloads

Game Informer Issue 261 (January 2015)

February 3

3 points

Nintendo Strategies (1989)

February 28

2 points

KickStarter - The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium

I am really excited about this. Sold my physical collection years ago when I got married. Now I can have them in my hand to browse through again!

February 21

2 points

KickStarter - The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium

Technically it is a new release, even if it isn't ours. But now that the campaign is over I've moved it to Magazine Talk with a link in the new Release section pointing to it for the next 30 days.

February 20

2 points

New Release - PC Gaming World Issue 34 (October 1999)

Thanks @Rodrigo2012 who sent me those for preservation!

February 17

2 points

Famitsu Issue 0129 (April 19, 1991)

149 downloads

Speculation on what the American redesign of the Super Famicom might look like LOL: Though to be fair, who would have ever guessed they'd decide that purple and lavender were the way to go to appeal to Americans?

February 14

2 points

Famitsu Issue 0129 (April 19, 1991)

It's Gorby no Pipeline, since that's Gorbachev on the cover. As for his chance to headline a Famicom game, he got in just under the wire, since the Soviet Union ceased to exist 8 months after the game was released.

February 14

2 points

KickStarter - The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium

Mine came this afternoon.

February 13

2 points

Game Informer Issue 115 (November 2002)

The file is missing pages 70, 71, 72, and 73, FYI.

February 11

2 points

Games for Windows Issue 17 (April 2008)

Looks very close to a digital edition! Great job as always!

February 7

2 points

VGHF Digital Library doesn't credit scanners

It's funny how the Internet Archive catches all the blame for reuploading our scans without acknowledging where they came from, but that's actually not true a lot of the time. Many people who upload our scans to IA upload the files "as is," meaning that the Retromags page at the end of the file is still present. That's actually the entire reason that page is there in the first place - it isn't so people downloading a mag at Retromags know they downloaded a mag at Retromags It's so Retromags gets some free advertising every time someone uploads one of our mags elsewhere. That's one reason I created a custom version of the Retromags end credit page that also identifies the scanner and editor of the mag - something I wish everyone else here would do as well, since without those credits, even if the RM end page is intact, no one downloading our mags anywhere but at Retromags will be able to know who actually created the scan. (I also removed the "made with love by Retromags" line, since...well, we've been over this - RM had nothing to do with making it - though I've kept the rest of the RM advertisement in place.) Of course, even IF we can get everyone around here using a modified RM credit page that also credits the scanner/editor, the VGHF removes the Retromags credit page from the scans they use, something not even the Internet Archive's Official Retromags Scrape-Bot™, Doomguy2000 does.

February 6

2 points

Deadline (September 1982)

Wednesday at 09:59 PM

1 point

New Release - Comptiq No.235 (December 2001)

Retromags Presents! Comptiq No.235 (December 2001) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: kitsunebi Edited By: kitsunebi Uploaded By: kitsunebi Follow us on...

February 15

1 point

New Release - Starfox Adventures - Official Perfect Guide - Volume 45 (2002) [GC]

Retromags Presents! Starfox Adventures - Official Perfect Guide - Volume 45 (2002) [GC] Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: dablais Edited By: dablais Uploaded By: dablais Donated By: dablais Follow us on...

February 14

1 point

Retromags 2025 Fun-Raiser Goal Achieved! Thank you all!

February 13

1 point

Tips & Tricks Issue 90

PRIMARY SYSTEMS COVERAGE Nintendo 64 Sony Playstation Sony Playstation 2 Sega Dreamcast Nintendo Game Boy Nintendo Game Boy Advance Nintendo Gamecube Microsoft Xbox --- STRATEGIES Stuntman (PS2; six pages) Bomberman Generation (GC; six pages) Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon (XB; four pages) WWE Wrestlemania X8 (GC; two pages) Urban Yeti! (GBA; three pages) Gundam Battle Assault 2 (PS; seven pages) DEPARTMENTS Readers' Tips (letters column) Select Games (1-page (unless noted) game overviews with screenshots; readers would select games from this section for future strategy coverage in T&T:) The Legend of Zelda (GC) (The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker) Shinobi (PS2) Blinx: The Time Sweeper (XB) (1/3rd page:) Metroid Prime (GC) Contra: Shattered Soldier (PS2) Resident Evil Zero (GC) Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (PS2) Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2) Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (GC) (1/4th page:) Unreal Championship (XB) Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair (GC) James Bond 007: Nightfire (PS2) Lethal Skies (PS2) Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA) Metroid Fusion (GBA) Samurai Jack (GBA) The Legend of Zelda (GBA) (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Four Swords) Game Track! (upcoming releases list) Pencil Puzzles (2 puzzles) - Pencil Puzzle A | Pencil Puzzle B Hint Hotlines (game tip phone number directory) Tournament Report (2 pages; "Save The Pak Mann Arcade" - Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Classic Game Championships!, Game Zone X 3rd Strike Battle, Major CVS2 Golfland Upset!, Golfland Tekken 4 Tourney, player rankings, tournament calendar) Sports Desk (two pages; game strategies) NCAA Football 2003 All-Star Baseball 2003 (GBA) David Beckham Soccer (XB) MLB Slugfest 2003 Street Hoops Hard Core (three pages; reader-submitted Armored Core designs; 'Armored Core: Master of Arena' tournament) Collector's Closet (two pages of retro coverage; 'Digital Press Classic Video Game Collector's Guide;' 'Auction Action;' 'Snatching Up PlayStation "Late Releases";' 'Classic Gaming Expo 2002;' 'Room of Doom') Japan Report! (two pages; Japanese products, games and culture; 'Yamachi Retires;' 'Famitsu Celebrates 700 Issues!;' 'Mega Man 15th Anniversary Exhibit;' 'Sonic Team Needs Your Help;' 'Bigger Gamecube Memory Card;' one-page 'Silent Hill 3 Interview' ) Cool Zone (two pages; cool products, gaming and non-gaming) CODES (T&T prided itself on its tip count - this issue contains 3200 tips collected in the pages listed here, sorted by system. This issue's Codes section features a running footer bar.) Playstation 2 (5 pages) Gamecube (2 pages) Xbox (2 pages) Playstation (6 pages) Dreamcast (3 pages) Nintendo 64 (3 pages) Game Boy Advance (2 pages) Game Boy (2 pages) GameShark (PS2, GBA; 2 pages) (Running footer bar:) Tips & Tricks Reader Art Gallery

March 26, 2022

1 point

Tips & Tricks Issue 84

PRIMARY SYSTEMS COVERAGE Nintendo 64 Sony Playstation Sony Playstation 2 Microsoft Xbox Nintendo Game Boy Nintendo Game Boy Advance Nintendo Gamecube Sega Dreamcast Watara Supervision arcade --- STRATEGIES WWF Smackdown! "Just Bring It" (PS2; 6 pages) Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC; 6 pages) Shrek (XB; 5 pages) Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2; 6 pages) DEPARTMENTS Readers' Tips (letters column) T&T Select Games (1-page (unless noted) game overviews with screenshots; readers would select games from this section for future strategy coverage in T&T:) Final Fantasy XI: Online (PS2) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (XB) Star Wars: Racer Revenge (PS2) (1/3rd page:) Smashing Drive (GC) Bloodrayne (PS2) Medal of Honor: Frontline (PS2) Airblade (PS2) Star Wars:Jedi Starfighter (PS2) Forever Kingdom (PS2) (1/4th page:) Genma Onimusha (XB) Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GC) Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2) Run Like Hell (PS2) The King of Fighters EX: Neo-Blood (GBA) Shantae (GBC) The House of the Dead Pinball (GBA) Puyo Pop (GBA) Game Track! (upcoming releases list) Pencil Puzzles (2 puzzles) - Pencil Puzzle A | Pencil Puzzle B Hint Hotlines (game tip phone number directory) Tournament Report (1 page; 'Burbank CVS2 Tournament!;' 'Golfland Tekken 4 Tournament;' player rankings; tournament calendar) Sports Desk (game strategies (unless noted)) F1 2001 (PS2) NHL Hitz 2002 (PS2, GC, XB) NCAA Final Four 2002 (PS2) The Curse of NBA Live (sidebar; cover curse) Hard Core (two pages of reader-submitted Armored Core designs) Collector's Closet (3 pages of retro coverage; 'Whither Supervision?;' 'Spotlight On: Collecting the Collections;' 'The Original Collectors;' 'Room of Doom') Japan Report! (1-page; Japanese products, games and culture) Cool Zone (2-pages; cool products, gaming and non-gaming) CODES (T&T prided itself on its tip count - this issue contains over 3200 tips collected in the pages listed here, sorted by system. This issue's Codes section features a running Reader Art Gallery footer bar.) Playstation 2 (4 pages) Gamecube (1/2 page) Xbox (1/2 page) Playstation (7 pages) Nintendo 64 (6 pages) Game Boy Advance (1 page) Game Boy (3 pages) Dreamcast (4 pages) GameShark (2 pages; PS, PS2, GBA)