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@dablais-- Just wanted to say you are *killing* it with these T&T uploads. Thank you so much for your hard work!

This was one of the ones I managed to find on IA. Unsure where it was sourced from, unfortunately, because it's the only one that isn't labeled with said source.

@dablais, this is AMAZING news! Those earlier ones are going to be difficult to find, I imagine, but I wonder if @ChrisBcould point someone in the right direction?

It's me again! I'm happy to report that I've completed the missing Pencil Puzzles from your original post, @BrandonE. I actually learned that the first issue to contain Pencil Puzzles was Issue #80 (as mentioned in the 10th Anniversary Codebook). At this time, the original run of Pencil Puzzles has been completely archived digitally, using your great program. There may be more left to "digitize" in the Codebooks, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Issue 80: A | B Issue 82: A | B Issue 86: A | B Issue 88: A | B Issue 92: A | B Issue 93: A | B Issue 94: A | B

I never said that? I never even implied it was an accidental, happenstance thing. There's no way to know what is currently being worked on, besides the "Scanning" tags or "Missing" tags on issues. When a new user sees all of the old threads with unanswered replies/requests, it's difficult to know if something has actual progress or it's just set that way on the database. It seems like there's a lot of miscommunication between curators here, because if the VGHF scenario was already widely known, it would've been nice to be told that by the *first* curator instead of being told, "We don't want these unless you've scanned them yourself." I like this website a lot already and it's brought me a lot of joy (the short time I've been here), but some of you aren't exactly making it a welcoming environment for people who are unfamiliar with how you do things. I posted this thread before I knew about the "massive scan list" or anything about the relationship between RM and VGHF. It isn't fair to assume that I should know your "lore" or internet relationships as a new member. I was simply trying to be helpful and I was excited to see that a complete set was so close to happening. But man, this experience has been far more draining than it's been worth.

That's exactly what I'm saying. Like others have also pointed out, most of these are scanned in by VGHF and were even on the Massive Scan List that I linked in my previous comment. Heck, as @chris85 pointed out, Issue 13 already contains the Retromags page in the back (something I completely overlooked because I didn't know it was a "thing" until this thread).

No need to be rude or dismissive. I'm only trying to help the end-goal here. If you're a purveyor of any "lost media" wikis or groups, you'd know that, 9 times out of 10, what people are looking for is usually right under their noses. "Missing commercials" have been found on random YouTube collections. In turn, many documents, books, etc. have been found on IA, just waiting to be discovered by the right person that's looking for them. It wasn't as easy as typing in the magazine title and the issue number/date as many of those were incorrect, using varied numbering styles, etc. I flipped through about 600 results to put together what I did. As far as I can see on the forum, no one else decided to do that in order to help complete collections. If that's the case, why accept donations/gestures like this? I checked all of my "finds" and all but two confirm sourcing from the Video Game History Foundation, scanned in at 600p resolution. Relying on people who claim to have "x" number of issues and will mail them out, only to go radio silent for years, unfortunately, isn't reliable if the end-goal is preservation of every issue of a particular magazine. It was really disheartening to see so many threads like that abandoned for whatever reason. Again, not trying to fight or disagree just to disagree, I just want to understand why something like this is considered inferior when there was a massive list posted of people excited to finally fill the holes in several magazines' libraries... only to have that languish and be seemingly forgotten about.

Is there a reason why you only use scans that users provide? There wasn't anything about that in the newcomers section, so I'm genuinely curious -- especially since no one could claim ownership of these (because it isn't "theirs" to begin with). If the overall goal is preservation, I would think that using all available resources to obtain a complete set would be the right idea -- especially since the internet at-large is at risk of losing the Internet Archive as a resource for these items. Not trying to be argumentative or start a fight as soon as I join, but I'd love to see a "preservation chapter" close. Being within 12 issues of completion with these finds feels too good to pass up.

Hi all! I'm extremely new here and found the website via a search about a classic feature in Tips & Tricks (I'll forever love Pencil Puzzles). In order to help this archive be complete, I've been checking readily available sources through the Internet Archive before I raid my collection that's somewhere at my old family home. Currently, there are 53 issues missing from the 150 issue original run of the magazine. It's been very difficult to find the earlier issues (especially since people either list the issues by their release month/year or by a variety of numbering systems (ex. #1, 001, etc.). So far, this is what is still missing versus what I've found via IA. Spoiler'd for post length's sake: If my count is correct, there are only 12 issues that are left to preserve. The only reason I didn't want to download these and upload them myself is, well... I'm not really sure how to credit the people who have done the work themselves and I thought it would be best for someone else to decide how to preserve what I've found. If others have these issues, or know where they could be found, it'd be awesome to finally have a complete collection of Tips & Tricks available freely.

Sorry to double post here, but I was reviewing some of the missing issues that are needed to complete the magazines archive on Retromags. I was reading the 10th Anniversary Codebook (which included blurbs and covers for issues 1 - 111) and upon further reading, it seems Issue 80 was the first issue to feature Pencil Puzzles.

Just found this post while waxing nostalgic with a friend about Tips & Tricks. @BrandonE, you are incredible for archiving these puzzles here. I wish I had ready access to my old collection of mags because I could help you complete the archive for the ones you're missing. Have you considered adapting your code into a mobile app? If I knew how, I'd have done it yesterday. Thank you again! I had to make an account *just* to thank you, so I hope you see this.