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Whenever I'd get to visit a proper arcade, I would walk in and just be kind of in awe. Then I'd head towards whatever the biggest and coolest looking cabinet was. I remember that was often Daytona USA. After SF II and MK were already on home consoles and I knew how to play them, I'd play them in the arcades whenever I could.

Thanks Phillyman. And, thanks for all the work you've done/continue to do with this site.

Is there any possibility of getting this 'bug', if we can call it that, fixed?

Laptop-->external monitor. For software, ComicRack.

This was a few days ago now, and I wasn't in the most patient mood, but...I thought I had tried doing it this way and still running into the same problem? But anyway, thanks for the suggestions/tips retrodefense and E-day. I'll figure out a way that works for me.

Thanks so much for these. My memories of this mag were off. I remember all the talk about the new systems, but I had not remembered all the sort of philosophizing on video games themselves. Forgot about all the interviews too. They were very good. Very in-depth. Maybe the most interesting part about the mag, and the interviews, are the predictions made by interviewees. Some are way off, but others are surpringly accurate.

I remember first seeing a SF one, and it finally clicking to me what combos were. I'd heard all this talk, previously, but didn't get it till then.

Gah. Does anyone have any tips for bullet lists? I'm trying to indent them. I can, but when I go to save, or preview, or when I use that little icon in extreme upper left of the toolbar (to view the code), the indents are erased. Is it not possible maybe?

I forgot about those! They were 'pull-out' style, and printed on different paper, right.

Thanks for the info and advice, retrodefense, and for the welcome. I like your method/idea of having that "Primary Systems Coverage" headline/section. Might implement something like that. I may have picked the wrong mag as my first project - a Game Players from the "wacky years". Lol. Half the headlines are like, smart-ass word-plays, or innuendos or whatever. Well maybe it's not quite to that extent. Anyway, I'll figure it out. I will take your advice too on the looking around part for ideas and methods. Would be great to see how people have handled something comparable to a Game Players from the wacky years. Do you know off the top of your head of anything? That someone has already completed? There are so many mags here that I've never heard of.

Well, my experience with cbr/cbz readers is pretty limited, but since learning about this stuff with CDisplayEx, I've been using a program called ComicRack. I love it. It has just the right amount of features. It seems malware free. Though, I haven't run a scan or anything since installing it. But, it seems popular enough that you'd think if it did have nastiness piggybacking on it, that this would show up in a search - which it does not.

Thanks for that, retrodefense. Initially, I thought I would just be able to use the TOC, but you're right, there's so much there that is not included, at least for the GP issue I've started with. On the whole, it is more tricky than I thought it would be. The "meaty" sections, like reviews, previews, etc. are quite simple, but other sections, not as much. For instance, one of my favorite things to read in old mags, are the news/gossip type sections, and I feel perhaps to others as well, so I want to cover them in my entries, but they can be difficult to succintly summarize. Too wordy, and you may as well just have copy/pasted the entirety of what it is you are referencing. Too few words, and you end up with something too vague, and therefore of little use. Also, some things in a news section might be pretty lengthy pieces. Other things, just a few sentences. Do/should you include everything? Say there are 10 things, but one of them is just two sentences long, and isn't really that important. Do you include it? Do you not? Who are you to decide whether something is important or not? And yeah, search engine usefulness is something I'm keeping in mind too. It's like, what are the absolutely most relevant words here, and how can I string them together in very short way that maintains meaning. One other thing, and maybe you guy's have advice. It's probably best to use an example, because it's a bit hard for me to explain: Let's say there's a blurb in a news type section concerning the Ultra 64. Now, we of course living in the present, know that this was the given name of the N64, before it was actually released. In the database entry, do you think it is best to leave the name as Ultra 64? I would think, yes it is. It seems more proper. Like, it's probably best to remove ourselves, and what we know, from the process. But on the other hand, what if someone doesn't know that before it was released, the N64 was referred to as the Ultra 64? Like say the story is about developers getting N/Ultra 64 development kits, and their noteworthy reactions to it. Say someone heard about this - wondered if it was mentioned in an issue of an old game mag - did a search - but for whatever reason (it doesn't matter) they didn't know the N64 was called Ultra 64 before it was released? Theoretically, they might not be able to find the story. Thoughts? Advice?

OK great. Sounds good!

Hi, Is there a guide for making entries in the "Magazine" section of the database? I can't find it if there is. It's mentioned in the FAQ. Am I missing it? I see that some EGM's are done a little differently. Some people use bullet points, some don't etc. So anyway, yeah, I'd like to do some Game Player's. There looks to be a lot of those that need doing. Is there a guide or template I can use? Any suggestions? Thanks! EDIT: Woops. Forgot a word in the thread title.