TheRedEye

http://area5.tv/blog/2014/1/29/outerlands-short-franks-magazine-collection-the-first-super-mario-bros-review Thought some of you would enjoy watching this! If you like what you see, please consider contributing to the series' Kickstarter campaign.

Oh, I actually know the answers for a lot of these, at least in the U.S. Computer Gaming World: We had one copy each of MOST of the issues, missing a few from the 80s (including #1). They were all donated to the Strong Museum of Play. We had no digital archive. EGM: We had at least one copy of each issue minus #8 and #12 in the 1UP office. I don't know what happened to them when 1UP was sold to IGN, since that's after I left; either someone (Jeremy Parish?) took them home or they're still at IGN. We didn't have much more as far as the Sendai/Ziff stuff goes...a complete set of GMR I took home, and a few random things here and there, but no Computer Game Review, EGM2, etc. No digital archive of any of these at all, other than what the layout guys who were still around happened to have on their computers (since wiped, I'm sure). Gamepro: They had at least one of each issue the last time I visited the office. After the magazine died I believe someone took them all home. I didn't see any of the other IDG stuff in their archives, though I believe Kevin Gifford got a good chunk of them when he worked at GamePro way back in the day. Those are all at the Strong now. There's also a digital archive going back to I think 1993 in a friend's possession. He's trying to figure out how to get them out, but keep in mind these aren't like, PDFs, they're layout files with all kinds of incompatibility issues these days. Game Developer: I worked in this office too! We had at least one of each issue going back to the first one in 1994, and TONS of extras of anything post-2000. They swore they packed and moved a complete archive when they moved offices a couple years ago, but last time I was there, no one could locate the ones from the 90s...hope they weren't lost! Again, though, there's a complete archive at the Strong. There might even be two: I think the office sent one over, and then Kevin's complete collection went there too. Game Informer: There's a good chance their archive is complete, given that Andy Mac has been there since day one and as far as I know they've never moved offices. Game Players: A friend of mine took their archive after the mag shut down. It's incomplete. Sadly the uber-rare PC Strategy Guide issues seem to be totally absent from it. VideoGames & Computer Entertainment: The mostly-complete archive was taken home by a former editor.

Those Play Meters went for a steal, I can't believe I missed the auction.

Billboard very briefly had a chart in the 80s along with their record charts, that's probably what you're thinking of? I believe they were provided by the (now defunct) Software Publishers Association.

Not as much nostalgia for GamePro. I won this auction (it looks a bit nicer than my copy) but got immediately refunded, apparently the seller accidentally listed it twice. That other auction you listed with EGM #1 also included was the same seller.

I won that auction. ...but it's not for me. I got a bunch of other friends in the game industry together and we pooled our money together to buy this and donate it to the Video Game Archive at the Library of Congress. So people will be able to read EGM like 300 years from now (assuming we're still a country).

No. Seriously, I don't know why this is so hard to believe, but I have the magazine right here in front of me. It's a four-page spread and review of the NES (not SNES) version of Wario's Woods.

...no, really, it's in the December 1994 issue. There's a four page spread, and then a proper "Power Meter" score in the back of the magazine.

That would be Wario's Woods in the December, 1994 issue.

Okeydoke, ready to scan what's needed of those two as soon as you confirm. I have the missing issue too but mine is actually in this gorgeous brand new condition, so I'm not willing to de-bind or squash it in the scanner. I'm like 90% sure I have a double of it somewhere, I'll check the next time I go to my storage unit.

Yep, no sweat. I'll want to verify we're not missing any of the first pages too before I start scanning, but I've got them right here ready to go. Rychem: page one of December 1989 is a Shadowgate ad, page one of April 1990 is a Sky Shark ad. Let me know if yours are intact or if I need to scan the first and last pages of mine with the covers. Oh, and what's the seventh missing one?

I'd be happy to scan the covers from my copies if you scan the rest! Are any of these needed, guys?

I'm interested in all of the PC Games, all of the Incites, and the earlier PC Gamer issues (everything through 2001 or so). I can't guarantee scanning will happen, but everything in my collection will end up in a researcher-accessible archive eventually (I've already spoken to Stanford and the Library of Congress about it, they're both interested), if that helps!

Sega Visions will NOT sell at that price! The other two don't surprise me. I can't think of many others that go for three figures. Electronic Games #1, easily. Maybe some others that you never ever see, like Electronic Game Player...MAYBE GameFan #1 on a good day.

E-Day I can't find our conversation/list, was that via email? I seem to remember we whittled it down to a manageable list of maybe ten issues of GamePro for a first shipment? And for the record there was nothing "touchy" about my reply to triverse, I was clarifying that I'm only sending these to people who will scan them and have no intention of getting rid of them otherwise. I'm sorry you took it this way and had to write a dramatic novelette in reply, but believe it or not, I don't really care about the bullshit happening between this site and yours at all! I just want magazines preserved, I don't care who does it, and I stopped hanging out on this forum (and yours) because I was getting tired of the divorced parents vibe that doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.

Oh yeah, now I remember why I stopped hanging out on this forum!

Hi, I've had to move twice since posting this list, my mags are nowhere near in any kind of order to pick through these and send any out. It's going to be a while before everything's in order again, but the good news is that I have more doubles now! triverse, in case you didn't understand: I'm not really looking to be rid of any of these, I'd prefer to hang on to them, but they're available for scanners if I have any kind of guarantee that they'll actually be scanned and released in some kind of timely manner. Do you guys plan on releasing issues of EGM and VG&CE on your site?

Oh, hey, I bought that lot of early, slightly damaged EGMs from you without even realizing you posted here.

Great, looking forward to these. The more info out there from the NES era the better, as that stuff is more likely to get lost since the internet wasn't around yet.

Definitely looking forward to these, are you going to do them in order? I'm most interested in the earlier ones.

Hey phillyman, you need to add 1up.com in those image URLs for them to work.

I have it and can scan it for you if you don't mind me not taking it apart (I press down really hard).

Great prices, PM sent.

I wrote for Nintendo Official Magazine for about a year, a few times in Game Developer, once each in Edge (no I'm not "RedEye") and Tips & Tricks, was interviewed in GameNOW and Retro Gamer...I think that's it for print. I'm mostly a web dude.