E-Day

Cue Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46. FOr those not familiar, it's the title screen music for the original Peggle

It depends on the size of them. I could probably do at least 3 a month.

Sign me up. I'd like to help get more GamePro issues up on the site. Talk to me, baby!

I find the comedy in Tropic Thunder totally different thatn in Naked Gun. Naked Gun is a lot more slapstick and such than Tropic Thunder was. I didn't even know Tom Cruise was in the movie until close to the end when my wife suspected it was him.

Final Fantasy II on the SNES. I didn't understand it at first, thought it was weird, and didn't like it. But after some time it grew on me a lot and I was hooked on it. My mom was the same way with it.

Tropic Thunder was really good. It was actually better than I expected. And for the record, I was also cracking up at Step Brothers.

I voted for number 6 as well. I like going chronologically. If Issue 5 was there, I would have voted for it since if 6 gets scanned next, 5 will be missing

No one said they wouldn't be kept offline or completely deleted. They just won't be accessible for downloading.

Why can't they? If they have a big enough demand for old back issues that would enable them to make a profit, why can't they reprint and resell old issues? Unlike the internet, the information in a magazine never disappears without warning. And some people still like reading magazines, both new and old; and some people like collecting magazines in print form

That option is coming soon, actually. I am waiting on it too since I want to get The World of Goo and some other games.

There are already a ton of the old magazines that people have in their possession that need scanning. So increasing the cutoff date won't alleviate most of the work The 1999 isn't written in stone forever. Eventually it will change, even if it won't be for a long while. And it shouldn't keep people from collecting the newer magazines for scanning even if they can't go up right away. Besides, all the most interesting stuff is from the 80s and 90s

Makes sense. The earlier issues had an editorial or some regular feature by "The Gamecock" or something with gamecock.

To me, the whole idea about retro magazines is to read about the games and consoles you miss from years past. Putting up magazines talking about the PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox doesn't seem very retro, as the site name suggests, and next fall (2010), the Xbox 360 would be in that mix. Things that current are not retro. I personally don't consider the Saturn, N64 or PSone retro either, but they haven't been current for a long while now that they can actually be missed. That's not to say that the scanned magazines will be deleted (they'll be removed for downloading, but as far as I know the scanned work will be kept for a later date), nor will people who have the print magazines get rid of them because of the new cut off date (hopefully they won't). It is also a sort of goodwill gesture towards publishers that the site in no way intends to encroach on their business. No magazine currently offers back issues that are more than a few years old, and certainly none offer any from the 90's. So if the site doesn't step on any of their toes, they are more likely to look the other way than to hassle the site. Originally it was going to be a 10-year cut off date that moved up every year, but having a firm year as the cut off date seemed like a better idea. The most important thing is that the old stuff is all still available

Ditto, ugly

Done and uploaded.

I, too, will help.

100% scanned. Editing next.

I love reinstalling Windows. A nice clean canvas to work on; no clutter, fast booting. What I don't like is reinstalling my programs again, and Windows updates. I'll be able to get around the updates by slipstreaming the updates into a Windows install. Should be fun

Right now I have skin on that makes the site white and the boxes various shades of blue. I find it a lot nicer and cleaner than the retromags 2.0 skin, which is black. Though this is about retro game magazines, the site doesn't have to look like it's from 1997

I am still a fan of just listing all the magazines alphabetically. Magazines are one category, players guides another, and manuals another. If I am looking for a certain magazine, say Gaymers Galore, I know it's a magazine. I won't need to know what country it came from; just that it's a magazine (thus under Magazines) that starts with G. Easy to find that way.

I love the term Magazine Catalogue. Brilliant! I find the site is too dark. Dark web sites are passé. The way the meat of the content is layed out in the features page isn't the greatest (Mock up, I know), but I like the way the MAGAZINE CATALOGUE was done, with bigger covers, layed out so more could be seen at once, and the page for an actual issue also has some great ideas in it. This definitely has potential to be built on and maybe adopted someday. The current site has too many boxes on it and looks unfun. As a web design person, I see lots of potential with your mock up

Mega Play Volume 4 Number 2 (Issue 15 overall) 45% scanned.

In any case, a retooling of the navigation and/or the home page would be a good idea t oremove the clutter and make it easier to find stuff.

Flash is awful, especially when you want to make changes. For ease of updating, I would go with a CMS as long as you have control over how stuff is layed out.

No need to stream topics or the latest magazines to it. The latest magazines could be added manually, like you were doing with the weekly release post. Keep it simple, easy to navigate, and less people might be turned away as some are now by the layout and clutter. Each page fo a specific issue could have a link to download the issue, which would bring them to the download, a link to discuss the issue, which would bring them to the forums, and a link about how to download (encourage them to contribute and so on).