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Sure, that sounds fine.

I think you are reading a bit too much into that dialog than is really there. I played this game once, and then got rid of it. Boring as hell. I have a real life mortgage to pay off; I don't need a fake one too.

Definately! I also won a trimline rotary phone while I was asleep. I have been looking to get a rotary phone for a while now. Nice and old school.

I won one on eBay tonight; the desk phone type. I am also bidding on one of the trimline rotary phones. Then I'll be wired

GMR was indeed EB Games version of GI. I read about it on James Mielke's 1Up web log. Those GI's you have are too current as they are less than 5 years old. As are some of the GMR magazines. Everything else is good.

I got this system just over three years ago, so to me it is not old enough to justify replacing it. It still works great, though more than one core would be helpful to speed up video editing. This is the motherboard I have. It's a Socket LGA 775 board, and while the Pentium D, Pentium Dual-Core and Core 2 Duo are also LGA 775, as far as I know, I cannot drop any of these into this board. Is that correct. I know some stuff about computers, but not the fine technical details like compatibility of different CPUs with the same socket. Perhaps Mr. Computer Rapiar (Triverse) could let me know what else I can put in my board besides a Pentium 4.

Right now I am running a Pentium 4 3.0ghz processor with a gigabyte board that supports 2 gigs of RAM max, which is how much i have in there. An upgrade would run me $500-$550 for either a Intel Core 2 Duo (Quad makes the price $550), a new motherboard, and 4 gigs of RAM, plus a new SATA DVD burner since all my components are IDE, and new boards on seem to have 1 IDE connector on the board, which would cover my hard drives only. I can get a whole computer for that much at the local shop. It won't be as good, but it has everything. I feel the single core pinch of my computer when I am editing home videos the most, but i know new parts would speed everything up. But for the price of an upgrade, I could get a whole new machine. It's crazy. I am not sure it's worth upgrading my 3.5-year-old system.

Triverse is the one who let me know you were looking to unload some magazines

I would be willing to accept EGM, Game Players, Game Informer for scanning. I've been looking for more scanning to do.

I am looking to get a couple of rotary phones, because they are awesome. I want one that's the old fashioned desk phone like you see in the 70's and 80's movies and TV shows. And also one of the trimline rotary phone, where the dial is on the handset. eBay has some, but shipping seems to be extremely pricey. I was wondering if anyone had any nice rotary phones laying around that they wanted to get rid of. Technology annoys me, so while people are getting cellphones, I want to move backwards and get a rotary phone or two.

I dunno. HGM seems to be at the bottom of the video game magazine pile. They seem to have no distribution in Canada, and from what I hear, limited distribution in the US, only publish quarterly, and put out issues that are skinnier than most monthly game magazines. Buying it and turning it into a retro mag might be an idea, but doing so would probably turn away most of the established reader base. I see their days as numbered ever since they went quarterly. A quarterly game magazine in this day and age makes no sense at all. I am with triverse and his desire to acquire and preserve magazines that don't exist anymore and making them available again in print form, or even making deals with current magazines to start making their back issues available in print again. I mean, that is what this site is all about; it would be much cooler to be doing it with real magazines the real way. Hardcore Gamer is nice to look at, and has some fantastic special features, but the rest of the magazine isn't that interesting or relevant. I am, in all honesty, more interested in what EGM, Game Players, and GamePro wrote about games 15 years ago than I am about what HGM writes about now.

You need to start scanning some of those issues that are missing here

Ziff-Davis might switch you over to their PC Magazine digital subscription. That is their only other magazine. Or they might do nothing. They still have no money.

I don't think they could have filled those pages with ads. It looked like they were struggling to get the ads they already had. That's why their magazines were so skinny. Back i nthe 90's they said that any good magazine runs on 50-50; about 50% content and 50% ads. The December 2008 issue only had 22% ads. His stuff might have been filler, like how I feel GamePro uses the Opening Shots and Parting Shot pages as an easy way to get a few more pages in the magazine for cheap. So long EGM, long live GamePro. It won the magazine war between the two.

Sure I can. I found it annoying. Very annoying.

The worst thing in EGM was that "REst of the Crap" crap written by that Seanbaby guy. I assume htat guy was trying to be humourous? IN any case, he failed big time.

EGM is dead (finally!) for those who don't want to click yet another link, here is the Kotaku article copied and pasted. All I can say is Good Riddance. EGM was such a rag in the last year, it was almost torture to read. It kind of sucks that they didn't make it to their 2o-year anniversary, but it's no real surprise. The magazine lately was brutal.

The problem with EGM is that because they are perfect bound, it is hard to scan them without debinding them since a decent portion at the spine doesn't get scanned properly. And forcing the edge of the page against the scanner might damage the spine or the magazine.

I am waiting to hear back from an eBay seller on the shipping rate for a magazine I just bought (system lists $12 s&H, auction description lists less). If all goes well, this will be my next project: It's not GamePro, but it's still retro

I'd be willing to buy individual issues, but not the whole wad of them.

A bit too rich for me, but that's a nice collection. I don't know if you'll get $2,500 for it, but stranger things have happened on eBay.

GamePro Issue 8 (March 1990) is done and uploaded

I also check Cheapassgamer regularly. I also use Goozex, which is a game trading site. It's been fantastic so far.

I would love to see LittleBigPlanet on the 360, since I just got one, but that will never happen. Damn Microsoft for turning down the game on their system! Now I'll have to get a PS3 one day to play LBP.

Power Rangers Monthly would be awesome! Go Go Power Rangers!