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I have just unearthed a duplicate copy of The Beaver from January 1995. It is the 75th Anniversary issue of the magazine. The title changed in the early-2000s to Canada's History Magazine (or something like that) and publication continues today. If someone wants to scan this, please respond ASAP else it is going to Value Village on Thursday.

I am not inclined to purchase a scanner (that I would probably never use again) for such a small job. I did have a used printer-scanner (that I received for free!), but I donated it before my cross-country move in 2021. If someone wants to scan these, please let me know. If not they will be recycled.

I have located my duplicate issues. (I have a complete run, but I am unwilling to part with it.) 2003 -- Holiday Issue 2004 -- Fall Issue 2004 -- Winter Issue 2005 -- Spring Issue 2005 -- Fall Issue The content is primarily advertising of forthcoming games, but each issue has a calendar of (Sony promotional) events across Canada. If anybody wants these, please let me know. I will cover postage within North America. Page size is about 5x8 inches. Issues are 18 pages + covers.

I have found video game magazines at various thrift shops in three or four different Canadian cities. Presumably other people are searching for these too, so they sell quickly. I do not recall any PC-related magazines, but I am also not interested in that genre. I have also found multiple history-related magazines (my main collecting interest), including some British titles with no newsstand circulation here. Based on what I have seen, there is no weeding of donated magazines by the thrift shops; indeed some of the titles that I have seen on the shelf are of rather niche interest (e.g. model trains, Legion magazine).

Thank-you for sharing this obscure preview issue. Several sites host an otherwise full run of Total Control, but not this specific issue. e.g. https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/TotalControl.html The advertisement for a subscription -- Pay for 10 issues, get 12 -- is rather less of a deal in retrospect when the magazine ceased publication with issue #11.

Was this the very last issue of EGM ever published? I have never seen anything dated later than this, but given the irregular publishing frequency it is possible another issue may have receive a limited release. Wikipedia incorrectly reports that the last issue was #264 (Summer 2014).

Without seeing the original contracts I cannot provide a definitive answer, but it would be my expectation that the advertising content belongs to the company placing the ad. The magazine publisher would normally own the editorial content only. Advertising copy is usually provided in a fully completed form, and the publisher just has to drop it on the page. Things quickly get complicated with freelance (vs. staff) writers, photographs provided by third parties, etc. Given the passage of time, the presumed loss of original contracts, and the fading memories of the people involved, there will always be some ambiguity. As with most copyright disputes, the stakes are so very low that nobody is ever going to litigate the matter because the costs far exceed any possible recovery. Breen was a rare exception, and he was apparently financed by third-parties with an ideological basis.

I am neither a lawyer nor an American, but this is what I know. Here in Canada, one of the few copyright related lawsuits that resulted in a final judgement is called Breen v. Hancock House Publishing. In a nutshell, Hancock House published Professor Breen's PhD thesis without his permission and sold it as a book. It was a commercial failure and the publisher ultimately went out of business. As part of the judgement, Professor Breen received the remaining unsold inventory of the book (since he owned the copyright). He could have, if he so chose, sold those books himself (though I understand that he did not do so). Arguably, then EGM (or whomever the rights holder is) has the legal right to sell (or do whatever else they wish) with material in which they own the copyright -- even if the scan was created by a third party. It would be the same situation if another publisher decided to reprint back issues of the magazine and sell them. EGM could seize and then resell those reprinted issues themselves.

This is a good reminder for everyone to keep local copies of whatever they find interesting. There is nothing permanent about something hosted on a third-party website.

It is not a video game magazine, but I randomly received a copy of the British publication Dragon User magazine in 1983 or 1984 that came in a poly bag. Around the same time, I subscribed to some science and technology magazine that also came in a polybag. I do not recall seeing anything on the newsstand so packaged, but there were no video game magazines in the early-to-mid 1980s.

I like Adobe and it is already installed on my computer. I have no desire to add yet more software to address different file formats. Also, a PDF file can be smaller than a CBR file (with an admitted loss of resolution). I already have three external hard drives; storage space is a consideration. Note that articles published in academic journals (which constitutes the majority of my digital collection) are invariably in PDF format. These files are normally just text, with the occasional map or diagram; black and while photographs are sometimes included, but only rarely. Most scanned books (other than Project Gutenberg) are released in PDF format. Again, the text is far more important than the illustrations.

Personally, I like my files in PDF format. Everything that I download (from here and other sites) in a range of file formats (CBR, EPUB, etc.) gets converted to PDF for my own personal use. This extra step takes only a few minutes.

That is very clever! Do you know how many roster updates were released? Are these mini-cartridges very common?

I utterly love this stuff! Thank-you for sharing. I am fairly certain that my Parents had this cookbook (though they were teenagers when it was published, so presumably it came from my Grandparents). There is a 7-Up game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spot

Personally, I most enjoy the magazine content that is not directly about games. For example, articles about how to get into the industry (job opportunities/requirements, discussions of various training programs), company profiles, interviews with major figures, etc. I also like the detailed strategy guides, but only for those games that I have, so just a small subset of the total

Thank-you for posting this! Strategy guides are difficult to find (at least around here) and even more so for games that I have/want to play.

As a former professional librarian, I love technical discussions like this! I have struggled many times this problem, especially when the library holds only a few scattered issues of a periodical or (as very often happens), the publisher itself makes a numbering error. Normally a volume consists of all of the issues published in a year, with the issues numbered sequentially therein; a volume can have from just 1 to 360+ issues (some daily newspapers used this numbering scheme). With irregular frequency publications, volumes may not be annual, but they are always sequential (e.g. Volume 1 is from 2015, volume 2 is from 2018 with nothing having been published in between). I have only ever seen whole numbers (numbered consecutively from Issue 1 to end of publication) with video game magazines. My only contribution concerns the dating of issues. Can we learn anything from the release dates of the games covered in the magazine? I once encountered a British game magazine with no dates listed anywhere (cover, masthead, copyright). Almost all of the games reviewed had been released within a few months of each other, however. Thus I was able to make a best guess as to when that issue was published.

I recently unearthed my collection of ~150 physical cartridges from my storage unit where they have been languishing since 1998. I have an original 2600 (several different models, in fact), but nothing that I can easily connect to a modern TV. As soon as the 2600+ became available on amazon.ca, I placed my pre-order. With tax, it came to Cdn$172.49. There is no delivery charge.

While privacy legislation (e.g. FOIP in Ontario) does not apply as there are no state actors involved, published material is explicitly excluded from the purview of the legislation in all Canadian jurisdictions. Therefore there is no legal requirement (or basis) to make redactions to something that has been published and made publicly available. Some years ago, I was a regular contributor to some (non-gaming) hobbyist magazines. I am no longer interested in that subject matter, but I am not embarrassed to admit that I once was. As for home addresses, young teenage me had a letter published in a 1984 issue of Hot Coco inviting people to contact me about text adventure games. I moved elsewhere in the late-1990s, and my Family sold the house in 2001. I do not much care that someone can discover where I lived 40 years ago. That very same address was also published in other sources in conjunction with my Father's business and a non-profit once operated by my Grandfather. (Heck, someone once showed up at the door seven years after Grandfather's death asking to meet with him.)

Thank-you for the clarification.

So, Dave Halverson's veto on sharing the original Diehard Gamefan magazine does not extend to the relaunched magazine? I am certainly not complaining, but I also do not want this site to run afoul of any agreements.

Library and Archives Canada holds the following issues. Holdings are obviously not complete, but we can at least confirm that these issues were published: 2002:Apr 2002:Jul 2002:Oct 2002: Autumn 2003:Jan 2003:Apr 2003:Sep 2003:Nov 2003:Dec 2004:Feb 2004:Jul 2004:Sep 2004:Oct 2004:Nov 2004:Dec 2005:Jan

The feature article on video games reads very much like advertising copy -- just pick any system, they're all excellent -- but it was interesting to see the original prices for this stuff. There is a Parker Brother's advertisement that shows "The Incredible Hulk" game as forthcoming in July (1983). I was surprised how very many advertisements there were for various brands of cigarettes. Thank-you, @Phillyman and @E-Day for making this magazine available.

This addition to the database deserves a like just on general principles!

Thank-you for scanning this issue! While most issues of EGM are widely available, the last two years (or so) are not well represented online. Every bit to fill that gap is appreciated.