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I may be wrong, but to me PC Entertainment was rebranded as PC Gamer because they had been bought by Future/Imagine, with almost the same logo but a different editorial line (same thing for the British and US versions of CD-Rom Today, I think). However, when the British journalist Gary Whitta became editor in chief of PC Gamer USA later, it certainly had an impact on the content. BTW, have you heard that William R. Trotter, the strategy/wargame expert of PC Entertainment/PC Gamer, passed away two months ago ?

Another magazine published by Larry Flynt. Much, much more about video games than computer games, however.Thanks ! Hope the PC Entertainment are coming next, I'm looking forward to browse them.

Thank again ! It won't just about covers, however. I try to gather lots of info of any kind. For instance, you can already browse our database of more than 19000 personalities and filter them by function, country and gender. Here is the link for people who worked in magazines : https://www.abandonware-france.org/personnalites/recherche/?pays=&genre=&fct=200&letter=&motscle=

Great, thaks a lot. I don't know how you plan to fill the database (country by country ?), but if you want to find info and scans of French magazines, Abandonware Magazines is the reference. There is also some useful info in Press-O-Tech.

Hello, I'm currently working on a project of old magazines sub-website that is similar to Retromags in some ways and different in others : It's in French. We won't archive any PDF or full scans of magazines, just covers. For now, it's only about magazines featuring computer games. Maybe we'll add later the console mags, but it's really not a priority. The page of each magazine will contain up to three links to websites hosting some or all of the issues : Abandonware Magazines, Retromags, Kiwi's World, Kultmags, CGW Museum, Old Games Italia, Internet Archive... It will also contain a description of the magazine and its history, the awards they gave, a list of people who worked there (with roles and dates), and of course a list of issues. Each issue may have a cover and a part of its summary (interviews, reports, previews, reviews, strategies...). A feature will show the covers of the issues published during a month in history in a country. Want to see what the German mags published in March of 1991 looked like ? It's possible ! So far, this database features 128 magazines from France, UK, USA, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland, Australia and Argentina, and it's not over. Now, the question : is it authorized to use some of the covers available on Retromags for our database ? Of course, they will be credited, the credits will clearly appear under each cover. This database is designed to be both a source of information about old magazines and a portal to the other magazine websites, to find easily where some of these mags can be found (with the status : complete or incomplete collection, downloable, readable on line). I'm waiting for your comments and questions. If I can help Retromags to complete its database, feel free to ask - I'm a huge fan of old computer mags.

Thanks for the cover of PC Games Plus ! Have you checked the blog Pix's Origin Adventures ? Its owner scanned a whole lot of PC Zone and a few PC Review issues as well. Most of these issues were "uploaded" (cough) on Internet Archive, but he has a few more PC Zone PDFs, and he must own many more issues of PC Zone, PC Format and PC Review, because he posts some pages here and there on his blog. Maybe he could help Retromags and Kiwis World. It would be great, because PC Review is currently one of the least preserved British PC magazines. http://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/pc-zone-scans/ http://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/pc-review-scans/

I noticed a new issue of PC Format was uploaded. Thanks a lot ! By the way, have you ever heard about the Australian magazine PC Games Plus ? I saw their name several times in Point of Origin (the internal newsletter of Origin) but can't find anything about them. http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/8236 http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/8432 As a computer games magazines addict, I'm curious to see that. What do you mean by MORE ? Magazines from other countries ?

Printing the number on the back cover is hellish. For the multiple-numbered issue, it's not a total surprise for me, the French weekly newspaper Hebdogiciel did that during summer : 41 on July 20th, 42.43.44.45 on July 27th, 46 on August 31th...

Wow, for non-speaking/reading Japanese people like me, Japanese magazine covers looked confusing, bu it's much worse than I thought. Thank for this funny post, and thanks for your amazing work. I wanted to know if there was any old magazine preservation website in Japan, now I have the answer. I don't know how the Retromags database is structured, but as an admin of Abandonware France, it looks to me that Japanese mags violate the cardinality "one issue belongs to one and only one magazine". It should then be possible to link an issue with several "magazines", and consider the table "magazines" as ordered lists of issues. This way, the first Dengeki PlayStation would be linked to both Dengeki PlayStation and Dengeki PC Engine. This could be useful for certain Occidental issues, when two or more magazines of the same publisher release a common issue for a specific event. And it should also be possible to create a custom title for some issues, like Dengeki 3DO. This reminds me what Joseph Redon (president of Game Preservation Society in Japan) said in a colloquium of the CNJV last month : there is no culture of preservation in Japan. It's sad, regarding the huge amount of material this country released since more than three decades.