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I bought whatever system had games I wanted to play (I got a TG-16 as soon as Splatterhouse was released). Picked up an SNES when Final Fight was made available in my area, grabbed a Genesis for Strider, 3DO for Star Fighter and Killing Time and even Way of the Warrior. Kept going with that mentality, I figure, if there is one game that I want to play bad enough to buy the system then I am sure there will be others too (some systems obviously had more games to play than others that were my cup of tea).

Glad you like it. We have permission from Bill to do a lot more, this is just the start (hint, if anyone has anything Bill has had published, it would be great if you could contact me so we can get more work done on future releases).

It has been a long time in the making, and is a work in progress, but the time has come, Retromags.com is proud to release with full cooperation and endorsement from the original author himself, Bill Kunkel, the first 6 "The Kunkel Report" columns that were published in the 2nd publishing run of Electronic Games (sometimes referred to as the 90's EG). A quote from the press release announcing this great gift that Bill Kunkel is giving to anyone that wishes to read his work: Here is the first Kunkel Report, published in the first issue of Electronic Games from the 90's, October 1992. Below will be links to the remaining 5 releases along with a CBZ file for those interested in downloading them all at once. The Kunkel Report: #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 CBZ file with all 6 releases in one for your convenience available here. Also, for those that don't know, it is Bill's birthday today. If you wish to tell him happy birthday we have the forums here available for that and for discussion of anything related to Bill's work. Happy Birthday Bill! The work that went into collecting these works by Bill was a widespread effort and could not have been done without the help of many people, #1 on that list is Bill himself, had he not done the work and been willing to release it for anyone to enjoy we would not be doing this. Next up, Ter, owner of Zap! and the Retromags Team, it has been a team effort and this is what happens when everyone works together. Thank you to everyone that helped with this effort and please support the people that made this and future releases possible.

I believe Data Crow will attempt to gather all of that information from any number of sources (you can specify certain ones too if you like) and it is not limited to games, you can catalog anything that is able to be put on a computer (or not, like baseball cards, etc) but you may have to supply some pics and stuff.

Well, the cutoff date here is not set in stone, it will probably move in the future. The PS2 was not released in 1998, it was released in March of 2000 in Japan and October 2000 in the US.

Hey Bomb, welcome to Retromags, great to have another contributor here. E-day and Tony_32 are spot on with the advice so I won't confuse you with more. I do have one concern though, are you planning on releasing those Game Informers from 2002 and 2003? Those are past our cut-off here and can not be accepted (our current stop date is December 1999).

While technically the CD-i was a part of the newer generation, it was a 16-bit system at it's heart and released years before the PSOne and other 32-bit systems (way back in 1991). 3DO and Jaguar, those are a toss up since they were released more recent to PSOne.

I love that movie, very under rated but great nonetheless. I used to watch it regularly, need to replace my VHS copy with a newer DVD copy someday (when I can find it).

Retromags Weekly Update Week Ending 07/18/2009 Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games Vol 1 No 2 Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games Vol 1 No 3 Street Fighter II Official Strategy Guide for SNES Contributors this Week: Tony_32 Please feel free to thank our contributors by using the comment system in the Download Manager! Retromags does not condone requests of material past our December 31st 1999 cut off date. New Member Introductions Retromags FAQ Scanning and Editing Guide **************************************** These files are in .CBR/.CBZ Format You will need Comic Book Reader installed on your computer to read this file. ****************************************

And one for the late Michael Jackson:

I have a couple issues, not scanning right now (working on something else) I believe they are issues around 58 or 60. I can get a list of them here in a bit. To be safe, you may want to contact Tony_32 as he is the most recent contributor releasing Game Informer issues.

Hmmm, how many people out there are fans of Nintendo's Star Fox game? How would you like to play a Star Fox "type" game running on the Freespace 2 engine? Well, now you can, check out Shadows of Lylat by SOL Team. This is another one of those "Quick! Check this out before it get's shut down! games" Pretty nice looking. There are plenty more screen shots on their site There is no demo or anything available yet and the SOL team is taking an id stance of "it is done when it's done."

Well, Ralph Baer created the technology that was later used by the CD-i in the late 70's (Philips licensed it and used it, though they don't technically own I believe).

The idea of buying one of those DVD's and using the scans is against the rules here. We try to keep any trouble to a minimum and going out and putting up someone else's scans is a no no (we some guy who is no longer here, fruitarcade or something, that did that-he was asked to leave for other reasons but later we found out he was stealing scans). If you don't scan it yourself or get permission from the original scanner then please, don't bother posting it here, especially as your own. If you get permission from the original scanner, that is a different story (but with these DVD's how do you know you are dealing with the original scanner? That is why we ask members to not even support these resellers). The second part of your original post is also against what we stand for here at Retromags. We are scurting the law just by putting these issues up, I have discussed various things with a lot of people that were there to produce these magazines and most are understanding and even supportive but only barely. If we went out and were selling DVD's of their work, I know the reception I receive, while cold, would be even colder due to the selling of their works. We are working very closely with a couple of the people responsible for some of these works and will be making a major announcement about that in a week or two.

Philly, if you want some suggestions on some Jag games, get in contact with Kevincal, he won't steer you wrong there. Back on topic though, the 3DO, awesome system. It got my 64 year old father into video games (with Shanghai-he had arthritus so it was just about right for him). Other games to look out for: Star Control II (may have to get this on PC as Ur-Quan Masters which is free since SCII goes for a pretty penny) Road Rash (just get everything with EA's name on it, they really didn't put out any scrap games on the 3DO) Crystal Dynamics is another company to just get their games (Gex, Total Eclipse, Off World Interceptor among others) PO'ed, if for nothing else than to experience "butt" creatures running around shooting brown projectiles at you and to use the goriest weapon ever, a power drill. Most anything by Studio 3DO (Star Fighter, Killing Time among others) Way of the Warrior, it isn't as bad as people want to make it sound Those are the ones that stick out in my mind right now, there are a bunch that I don't remember the names of that are great but the companies that made them are listed as getting whatever they released so you may end up with them anyhow.

For me, the newer Mario titles (Mario 64 and newer on console) are more about patience and persevering through it than really playing the game itself. Not sure what it is but Mario 64 just seems huge and a lot longer than earlier titles, to the point where I give up eventually and start playing something else instead of finishing M64.

Don't worry about doing things in any order, do them as you want to do them and hopefully keep from getting burned out on doing it. Thanks for the great releases.

Call me weird but I enjoyed the FMV craze while it lasted and was kind of sad to see it die off not too long after it was popular. If you miss the FMV games, probably don't because of the grainy graphics, you may want to check out The Outbreak. It is an online FMV game and it plays pretty much like most of them did, watch a clip, pick something to do next and watch a clip.

Gotta go with, going to lose some credibility with this, The Mummy with Brendon Frasier. Stop laughing everyone, oh forget it...lol

I am proud to have grown up in the "electronics games" era (2600 on up to today) and am enjoying it a lot. I enjoyed it more back around the SNES and 3DO though for some reason (could be that games were unique and publishers/developers were trying new things, course there were the copycats following the leader too).

I will go with the super obvious answer.... Ralph Baer and his inventions. Seriously, we would probably be playing something else if it weren't for Mr. Baer's early breakthroughs in technology.

It would be botched up somehow by the console manufacturer's, probably in charging a buck per play or something. Currently your best bet would be Gametap as they are the closest to this idea so far (without the 3D Arcade though).

Thanks for the bump, believe me, no one that I know of here is just sitting on that magazine. It is an extremely rare magazine and I would love nothing less than to be able to release all of them, if I had them.

Sounds cool, they also have an interview up with Marv Wolfman over at IGN.com Thanks IGN.com