StrykerOfEnyo

I've been a registered user at Retromags for only the last 6 months or so, but I've been looking for digital copies since 2005. I will answer your question @kitsunebi, but I will do it based on why I visited BEFORE I registered. I found my way here because of an ad page at the end of a magazine I found on the Internet Archive. I started downloading the Torrent Packs around #3 or #5 because I was looking for a place I could download more than one mag at a time, and this place was great. I kept coming back to find more torrent packs. I did look at the New Release page every so often, but I didnt bother downloading any because I didn't mind waiting for a new torrent pack that just had everything. I liked the quality of the scans way better than most other sites, and this was one of the only places that had a good number of Nintendo Power, EGM, GamePro and a few others. The Archive did have some good quality scans, but you could have four versions of the same mag, so you had to look at all of them to find the best version. I loved that there was just one entry here. This site seemed to embrace the .cbr and .cbz format rather early compared to others, and once I got more familiar with them, I totally preferred them. I grabbed all the mags I could back then. I never checked the forums, I never looked at the comments on different mags from other users, and I never read the info/description listing for issues. To be fair, most other videogame magazine sites didn't have a comment section for each issue, or a place for users to interact with the people that scanned or published a new issue. So, I didn't really expect it on other sites, nor did I really care to interact with others. I got the magazines I wanted and left. I was around 25 years old back then, I was going to college, and I didn't spend time in other forums or registering on other videogame sites. Now, I'm over 40, and I decided to thank those names I've been seeing for all these years. Since taking the time to talk to members, I've found a lot of passionate people that love magazines even more than I did, and now I'm always signed in (aside from my tab "sleeping"), always check new releases, talking to other members, thanking everybody for their hard work. And I love every minute of it. It feels better to share these memories with others. I like the look of this site and the way its organized more than others. Some mag sites still use frames on their pages, and they haven't been updated in 10 years. But its probably run by one person. I just wasn't as social when I was younger, but it also wasn't easy or very practical to send messages to other users on the Internet Archive in order to thank them for an upload. I hope this insight helps.

I also appreciate all the GamePros, along with P.S.X., MegaFan, and everything else. And I also will need to come back in 24 hours with more "likes" [unless I get distracted in another post]

I believe I might have found this site because some magazine I came across had a Retromags Thank You Page, even though I found it elsewhere.

It seems that other people have put more thought into issue order than what the publisher themselves probably did back then. Great work finding out some of these details, I enjoyed that article. It's clear this company was new to publishing game magazines, and I don't think they knew themselves how to approach the industry back then. I imagine one person saying, "this is how we are going to number them," but then a higher-up says "no, we are going to release them like this," but then maybe not everything gets relabeled properly as they go to print. I agree with publisher error being very plausible, especially with multiple mags involved. I had a few of these issues years ago, they were some of the only vg-related items you could find on newsstands until GamePro launched content. I never liked the volume/number style of labeling magazines. I understand it's how things were done for decades, but it's not friendly to the consumer who usually just wants to know what month it came out so they can organize them at home. I prefer the standard issue numbers. Plus, some mags had a new volume at the start of a new year, while "number" would coincide with the month (January was number 1 and December was number 12). But some magazines would start whenever their first issue would launch, so sometimes Oct or Nov was number 12, and the new volume started with Nov or Dec. This drove me crazy, especially since some issues would not contain which MONTH they released anywhere in the issue (not even on the inside publishing info page).