VGBounceHouse

Sorry for the double post, just needed some quick venting lol. Anyone who's looked at my work knows I'm obsessed with facing pages and the challenges involved due to printing errors, pre-page-layout-software rules being off-angle, the usual. I noticed some talk about straightening pages in another thread and wanted to mention the joy of this issue of EGM. I manually straighten every page on the text baseline which takes time but I think leads to the original graphic artist intent. I noticed something new on some of the pages: multiple baselines. I couldn't believe it. Given the way layout was done in 1994, still a mix of electronic and manual, and the shortcuts of the era, I knew I couldn't use Electronic Gaming Monthly's page number footer despite it being the only consistent piece of text of non-advertising pages, since that element was often added last and with the least care. So I usually go for the largest horizontal block of text and then do a rectangular selection against one of two other blocks for consistency. In the section "Tricks of the Trade" there are boxed elements as well as a sidebar. I'm finding some pages where I have to "average" my standard procedure because each "boxed" area (as in singular games, not individual screenshots which are boxed within the larger box) is off by a fraction of a percentage. As irritating as facing pages with spine-crossing lines that don't line up (no pun intended) you'd think a singular typeset element would be a constant, but it appears they set each boxed area and then pasted them above the background individually. Oh well lol I had the first of two moving days today which slowed down my progress. I've now finished through numbered page 140 (with pull-outs that makes 160 individual pages plus 25 facing pages) and can only hope to be more productive tomorrow. I've updated my preview page if you're curious about the results so far: http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1994/12/egm/pages/

Thanks Sean, I really appreciate it. I'm gonna concentrate on just the scanning for a couple of months then get back into the web archiving again. Didn't get as far as I hoped on EGM 65, only 112 pages done so far. Hope to get cranking by mid-week. I put up the pages I've done so far (except for the ones I've done tonight) here: http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1994/12/egm/pages/ There already have been a number of tricky reconstructions, particularly that EA sports one because of where the page split. The Konami Warner Bros fold-out map was no picnic either lol