Sean697

I'll take whatever you can fit in a USPS priority mail medium flat rate box. About 20 magazines. And I'll eigther scan them or make sure they get scanned. Shipping should be 11.30. You could pay it or if you like I'll pay it through PayPal . (Message me your email for PayPal if that's the case. Only because if I don't scan them personally I will probrably ship them to someone who will.) I'll take EGM 116,118,119 (114 and 125 I already have ready to mail to eDay to get scanned.) Game buyer 1-4 Game pro 123-131, 133-136. And any extra game pros in the sequence that fit in the medium flat rate box till its full. Best way to ship is wrap them in Saran Wrap once or twice. Scotch tape the edge so it doesn't come off. And stack them with the spines alternating each other, one cover up next cover down etc. Supposedly John Smith has all the Next Gens for scanning. (I sent him all the ones he was missing for a complete set.) but someone here may like them for their personal collection. Anyone else want to volunteer to scan or take the rest? I'll PM you my address.

Yup. The first few years. Then I kind of outgrew it.

Well the last one I didn't own already was a PS4. Technically the last system I bought was a New 3DS XL upgrading from my old one.

While I'm not looking to collect physical magazines, someone else on here may, I have been this last week buying some mags to get scanned to fill out some of the holes in the sites collection. So if you can compare what you have against what's listed in our database and post the missing issuses , I'll tell you what I can take. Especially the EGM's as I just bought like 8 of them we are missing. I'll pay for shipping on the ones I can forward to a scanner.

I'd say if your getting a Wii, might as well get a Wii U, cause backwards compatibility.

Probably River Raid.

So for awhile I've wondered how to get magazines onto my iPad. Since the mags are all in CBR format. Also if possible I wanted to bypass using a PC as I mostly use my iPad these days for things Internet. We all know Apple doesn't make things easy. Well I finally did some research and tried YACReader. It allows reading most popular DRM free comic formats. Including CBR. So I tried it out and can confirm it works good. It's paid but only 2.99. Best of all when going to the download links on the site for a magazine it asks to open in the app and you can save it there straight from the Safari browser. I tried the VG&CE #2 and Sega Challenge Newsletter 7. Both saved it to the app and are available to read in the app on my iPad. With no PC whatsoever. So yea it's pretty good if you want easy iPad access. It also has plugins to load files directly from could accounts like Dropbox, or download straight to your iPad from your PC if you have a large collection on your computer. So basically is reccomend this app if you want to read magazines from the site on your iPad, not to shabby.

I haven't commented for awhile. But thanks for scanning all of these and doing the hard work.

Just backed. Wish I would have known about it sooner.

I had to go research everything I sent you but in July I sent:EGM: 79,85,86,88,89,91,92,94,95,96,99,101,102,103,105,106,111,112,115,123,124. And in November I sent: Sega Force EGM supplement with Joe Montana on cover. Joystick 9 Game Player's: Nov 89, Dec 89, Feb 90, Mar 90, Aug 90, May 91, Jun 91 EGM: 39,46,47,49,76,80. That's I believe it. Anything else were Next Generations I mailed to John Smith to complete his collection to scan.(I believe he has a full set after I filled in the missing issues he didn't have.)

Windows 7 is getting a little creaky. My favorite Microsft OS yet, but there is room for improvement. Most of it tied behind Microsoft locking updates to programs and services to new OS. Like when they release a new media player or IE but make it Win 8 only.

That one was hard. It is such a well done game, but ultimately for me it was all about graphics and presentation with that game. I still own it. I felt the gameplay wasn't quite as good as the other Rare games with contextual buttons and difficulty. But the story and comedy were amazing.

Banjo Tooie Banjo Kazooie Ocarina of Time Mario 64 Diddy Kong Racing Mario Kart 64 In that order. And yes I also really enjoyed Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

Outside of Zelda, there isn't a whole lot interesting for me this year so far. You know there's not a lot when one of the biggest games I'm looking forward to is the 3D remaster of Outrun on the 3DS. I'll probrably pick up Etrian Mystery Dungeon. Maybe Codename Steam on 3DS. Really interested in that Rythm Heaven title on the Wii U if it comes out this year. Not a whole lot of PS4 stuff to look forward to to be honest.

I have a few favorite sites but am always looking for new stuff. And a lot of stuff now I'm into has gone on to videos series on YouTube so I'll include those too. Chrontendo: exellent series of videos and blog posts covering every game released on the NES in chronological order. Also has two sister series, Chronturbo which covers every PC-Engine game, and Chronsega which covers every SMS game, and now Genesis games as well. The blog site is http://chrontendo.blogspot.com Where the creator Dr, Sparkle mixes up his Videogame related posts with topics such as music, beer, and books. Videos are mostly on YouTube under the chrontendo account, but to watch all of them its best to download them from archive.org in 60 FPS. Related to above is Generation-16. A similar chronogaming series covering every Mega Drive and Genesis game ever made in chronological order. Done by Greg Sewart who is a former editor for EGM and a huge Sega fan. Can go to Generation-16.com for find his videos under sewartg on YouTube. Another chronogaming related blog is the RPG consoler. Plays every American released console RPG in chronological order and blogs about them. http://allconsolerpgs.blogspot.com A more recent one I follow is a blog by Dylan Cornellius who reviewed every NES game, called Sega Does. http://segadoes.com He is on a quest to review and play every console Sega game ever released in Chronolgical order. He started with the SG-1000, and his reviews are kind of the primary resource in English on the Internet for that system now, current in 1987 on the SMS. Also does a companion podcast. Another great site is Golden Age arcade historian. http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com The author is a retro arcade historian and talks about golden age arcade games and pulls information out of old trade magazines like replay etc. Some great articles on 70's and early 80's arcade company's and game history. Another site is gameboy world.com by Jeremy Parish. He's documenting and making videos about every I game boy game I chronological order. His Gameboy world videos are on his YouTube accoint under Jeremy Parish and his game write ups with picture and box screenshots are at gameboyworld.com. Speaking of Jeremy Parish. I'm a big fan of the Retronauts podcast and website. Another YouTube series I enjoy is Game Sack. Great retro videos. For general Sega Genesis stuff is sega-16.com. They have reviews, articles and fantastic interviews with any and everyone involved in the Sega Genesis. The also have a fairly active forum. A good general Sega reference site is segaretro.org I think or it could be .com. Comprehensive information on nearly every Sega game ever made. I subscribe to Retro magazine but don't visit their site very much. But they have occasional good reviews. I'd love to hear move of other people favorite retro sites and video channels.

Honestly, for me it's mostly for historical reference. I'm really big into retro games, and when a discussion comes up and someone says something that is not quite how I remember. I like to look back at old magazines for reference. Especially for release date info, as most current sites such as moby games have horribly incorrect release date info. And to look at review scores and general impressions of games at the time in their historical context. So mostly I don't download a lot. It's usually me looking for a parictular issue or set of issuer to find something I'm looking for. Also some mags had great interviews like Next Generation that really put games into historical context, or refute some of the common assumptions I hear thrown around today about some things that supposedly happened in gaming history.

That explains it! But I'm not into age discrimination. I admire that how you wrote up that stuff it was like you were discovering it for the first time. Refreshing really.

I'm pretty surprised you didn't know who David Faustino was. Then again, anyone under 35 might not. I feel kind of old that I remember all those games you talked about. And that 8 eyes is an adaption of the anime of the same name.

It's great these are getting scanned. I'm sure someone would have eventually donated or scanned these. But the last batch of magazines it is kind of lucky that I got to them. I guess earlier I. The year it started with all the magazines at my current house in Hawaii. I decided to sell them off. But I had known about this site and used it very occasionally. So I took all my Magazines that were not preserved and sent them off to Eday (Mostly 1995 and later EGM and some various other stuff,) and John Smith, (Next generation, nearly a complete set. Between what He had already Aquarius and the 20 or so I sent home that magazine will eventually be completely scanned all issues. As I had all the missing issues he didn't.) But it was nagging me that I had a lot of stuff at my parents house starting from 1988. I had when I was a teenager purchased most magazines for consoles available at the time all the up to about 1993. And I had the foresight to take care of them. But when I moved out after graduating high school I never did take them back. Now my Father was pretty good about saving things but something like that I wasn't sure. And he was kind of a pack rat so I don't know how much room they had at their house. Having not really thought about it before I decided when I visited I would try and recover some of those too. But there was no telling when I was going to go back to California. Well I had in August called and took moment to inquire if my parents still had them and my Dad said he couldn't remember. Unfortunate my Fathers battle with cancer took a turn for the the worse. I took an emergency trip put to see him before him he past away last November. While I was there I took a few weeks to help my Mom clean some stuff out and sort through the side yard. My main goal wasn't to find my magazines, but If I did so be it. In anycase the previous year apparently my Dad had packed up a lot of my old stuff and stored it outside in the side yard uncovered. Along with a lot of his and my momks stuff that had overflowed from the house. So in cleaning out the side yard I found a white garbage bag with magazines directly on the dirt. When I opened it, it was a large portion of my old gaming mags. When I lifted it up the bag came right off as the bottom had already rotted out. Luckily only the bottom 3 or 4 issues had rotted out from water damage and insects. The rest, while being in really good condition, were only a little dusty. Most of the destroyed issues were Gamepros. But I had found the rest were a treasure trove. Like the very first EGM zero that I scanned in, and Gamepro #1. Included in that pile was all of these Gameplayers that you see getting scanned now. So I took very thing the site was missing and sent them off to E-Day since he generously offered to scan them. Including some bagged EGM copies that had arrived in the mail after I moved out. Also including all these great issues E-Day has been scanning here. The thing is that, had I not found them then, I think they would not have survived the Winter with the rain they have had from those major storms. And all of them would have been lost. Now I'm sure eventually someone would obtain and scan them. But you can thank my wife for pushing me to clean out my own stuff, and my Dad for hanging on to these, and the weird twists of fate in life that got out me out there just in time before they were ruined. I still believe I have another box of stuff as there were some I was missing, like all my early EGM's and Sega Cahllenge newsletters. And my run of VG & CE. I wasn't able to locate those that trip. But at least I know they are not outside and will have a better chance of being in good condition in the future. I let my mom know I was looking for them so she will set them aside. Just thought I would share were these game players came from and what had to happen to get them preserved in perpetuity (hopefully) here.

Ah yes. the pinstripes and the flower should have clued me in.

I love they included some dude in a business suit that has no connection to the game whatsoever.

You are a saint even making this available. Ya if I didn't live in Hawaii, I might even take you up on that, just to see in person your amazing collection of retro stuff.

From my understanding, listening to various podcast and people who worked for Videogame mags, none of that stuff was ever saved for older magazines. We're lucky if even physical copy's were saved. And in most cases they disappeared when the magazines went under. Frank Cifaldi proprably knows a lot of history on this. Not dissimilar to most older Videogame companies, where whole retail games never had their source code archived, and there is no reliable source to reprint them. I've read a lot of company's havie had to resort to ROMS for retro releases for their games.

I subscribed to the EGM digital version for a few years before I let my subscription lapse. It was on a proprietary PC reader, and the scans were generally horrible. Of course that was probrably 8-10 years ago. Bandwidth and high res devices are more prevalent now. I know with EGM the original archive was supposedly taken away in the era of Ziff Davis closure by Jeremy Parish? I could be wrong. And donated to eigther the strong museum of play of a video game museum. It's quite possible that many of these magazines don't even have the original archives or they are long gone to some employees house. That's why to me this site is so important.

Also was this the precursor to EGM? I notice the U.S. national video game team mention in the cover and knew they had a small run of issues with Steve Harris before formally launching EGM.