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We have the cutoff in place out of respect for the publishers and the people that have put money and time and hard work into making the mags and also to help keep from being a part of the problem with the decline in sales of mags (if you could download it for free, are you honestly going to purchase it at the newstand for $5+?). The cutoff is not in place to make anyone mad or to hurt anyone in any indirect way. It is just to protect all of the hard work that has gone into making this site and keeping it going along with all of the hard work it takes to scan the mags and make them as good a release as possible. If you have newer issues, then please, by all means, scan them while they are in as good condition as possible. The only thing, is right now, they are not eligible for release here (but the cutoff could change and if you have them scanned already, then you are ahead of the curve). I have a bunch of issues in various states of scanning that are not eligible for release yet (2000 and newer issues) but I am just saving them for when they can be released. Just because a magazine is no longer in print does not mean that the owner of the rights to it is not either trying to make money from it from possibly selling it. Who wants to pay a lot of money for something-Gamefan is currently at about $625,000.00, for something that is available for free? Also, most magazine publishers offer some kind of back issue purchasing program (depends on a lot of factors as to how far back they offer this service for). In most cases, the copyright holders are going to be protective of their property, can you blame them? In some wild cases, like Ziff Davis did recently (not sure exactly when) with the release of the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World (original post here on the forums about this: http://www.retromags.com/forums/Question-C...r-Ma-t3345.html, site linked in that post for the lazy: http://cgw.vintagegaming.org/galleries/ind...b=2&id=500). Not many publishers are willing to do that though, although since ZD owns EGM still, they may do it someday (it's demise may be too fresh in their memory, but they may be open to it since they are supposedly offering up the last issue of EGM for free in PDF format).

Yeah, Nintendo is big on the region thing. Certain games here and certain games there and theoretically, they shouldn't be allowed to mingle but people find ways.

Oh yeah, it must have been meppi, I may have done it but I don't remember doing it. I thought those were the issues on ebay, not what members had available for scanning and needed help with (since those would be irrelevant to bid on ebay since we would have access to a copy).

Nah, Game Informer is older than that. I have the September/October 1993 issue of Game Informer here. Ngamer was started in December of 1999 (I have issue #1). Not sure what mag your thinking of that started in 2001 or 2002.

E-Day had a topic somewhere for people to get in touch with each other that either have issues but no time or scanner and for people with time and a scanner but no mags. I am trying to find it now.

If they are older than December 1999 then they are eligible to be uploaded now, if they are newer than they still need to be scanned because the cutoff day may change someday.

The main concern here would be what years are they? If you could find out what years they are that would help in knowing if they are eligible for upload here. We are currently only accepting magazines and such from December 1999 or before.

I liked the Famicom colored GBA SP to an extent but it is no replacement for my blue GBA SP. That DS Lite there is just too 'shiny' to me.

Not bad looking, not great either, apparently one is available and was given to one of the first 20 people to show up to buy the game in NY, Original news and pic thanks to kotaku.com http://kotaku.com/5172403/a-look-at-the-cu...inatown-wars-ds

That works with most of the non necessity utilities (forget your water company or light company doing something like that, they kind of have you in a firm grip).

Nintendo is really stingy with what, or how many, games get on Virtual Console. You can see the games list here: http://www.vc-reviews.com/

The dial up thing isn't pretty but in some cases it is not cheaper. Like where I live, AT&T is the main phone company (if you want DSL, they are the only ones that you can get it from and Cable Internet is not offere but dial up is offered by just about everyone under the sun). At the moment, AT&T is the cheapest of the bunch for home phone and they offer 6 meg a sec DSL for $10 a month so it is either right at the cost of dial up or is less in the case of companies like AOL. Cable Internet where I used to live was outrageous (sure it was 12 meg a second) but it was still $89 a month, way more than I wish to pay for access, that is a home phone and DSL where I live now.

Minus the licensed stuff, it would simply be awesome if Capcom were able to get the majority of their stuff cleared for the PSP/PS3.

Back when WCW was actually competition for WWE (before the buyout as meppi pointed out) there was some fierce competition going on. I mean, the Montreal Screw-Job was because Bret had made it clear that he was going to go with WCW for what, $16 million on a four year contract with less wrestling required of him than his current, at that time, WWE contract. Vince was scared that Bret would take the WWE (WWF then) title onto WCW television and do something with it like, I believe, Medusa did with the Women's Championship when she jumped ship. Anyone remember Jeff Jarrett loosing to Chyna for the Intercontinental title, I think, on a PPV then appearing on Nitro the next night as the supposed chosen one to save the company? Yeah, that worked out well. Anyhow, as far as I know the only competitor that Vince had financial dealings with while in operation was ECW. There was a loan/debt of about $400K in their holdings or whatever when they filed bankrupt and the company/person owed that money was WWE/Titan Sports. Since they were the largest debtor for ECW they were pretty much able to pick up the rights to the name and such for a song.

Yeah, Vince (even today) is a handshake is just as good as a contract (till the contract is drawn up) type of guy. I am sure they will work something out (look at them inducting Bret in the Hall of Fame, I mean, he has been down on WWE quite a lot over the years). I am sure Macho is not the only one to do something similar and be let back in the WWE fold years later.

That is part of the problem as to why they haven't done it yet. They can't really decide on how to tax it, I mean, when you buy something at the store, they have it set up in the registers to charge you the sales tax. There is no real way of them to track your purchases online at the moment. Another point about it is, most of the debate I have seen about it people can't decide who gets the sales tax, what state? I am in Arkansas, say I buy something from someone in California, which state gets the sales tax? Also, they don't have an easy way of making you pay the taxes for a sale in another state at the moment (could you imagine the paperwork if they required you to file and pay sales tax in each state you make a sale in?).

Get in your resume and work portfolios now because they only have two positions open right now. http://games.ign.com/articles/963/963192p1.html

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/03/17/capco...1-games-on-psn/ What it amounts to is Capcom has sent a batch of PSOne titles they released to Sony for approval for the PSN Store. Quotes from Siliconera: Other titles they put out and are possibly on the table for re-release are listed below, just remember, if it has X-Men, Marvel or Mickey in the game/title, then it will probably not get re-released due to licensing reasons. Breath of Fire III Breath of Fire IV Buster Bros. Collection Capcom vs. SNK Pro Darkstalkers Darkstalkers 3 Dino Crisis Dino Crisis 2 Freestyle Boardin`99 JoJo’s Bizzarre Adventure Magical Tetris Challenge Featuring Mickey Marvel Super Heroes Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter Marvel vs. Capcom Mega Man 8 Mega Man Battle and Chase Mega Man Legends Mega Man Legends 2 Mega Man X4 Mega Man X5 Mega Man X6 One Piece Mansion Pocket Fighter Resident Evil Resident Evil 2 Resident Evil 3 Nemesis Resident Evil Survivor Resident Evil: Directors Cut Rival Schools Star Gladiator Street Fighter Alpha* Street Fighter Alpha 2* Street Fighter Alpha 3* Street Fighter Collection Street Fighter Collection 2 Street Fighter Ex 2 Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha Strider 2 Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo* The Misadventures of Tron Bonne Trick N’ Snowboarders X-Men vs. Street Fighter Thanks to Siliconera for the news.

Here is some insight on where the X came from for those interested. http://www.hiphopgame.com/index2.php3?page=sonypsx

What Cave shooters have they released on the 360? I am desperately behind on the games for the current generation.

For those interested in the story as to what has happened between Vince and Macho Man apparently Bret Hart broke the news in his book. It seems that Macho Man was implying to Vince that he would resign with the WWE and even shook hands on it but then turned around and signed with WCW. To make matters worse, he then called Vince at around 4 a.m., drunk and had 'words' with him. Surely they can get over something as trivial as that when there is decent money to be made.

Not sure who this Mayor guy is, maybe some other members that have played the game can comment on this.

If you see a person in Animal Crossing: City Folk named Mayor Tortimer you may be dealing with a sexual predator or at least Missouri's ABC 17 News thinks so. Iffy but could be some meat to this one/ Thanks to kotaku on this one. http://kotaku.com/5172152/mainstream-media...sexual-predator

Kind of makes you wish you had an XBox 360 seeing this member on there don't it? Please use caution when going through this link (may cause problems with your intimate other if you know what I mean). http://kotaku.com/5172863/everyone-wants-t...-shoko-nakagawa

More reviews to be added as they are found. Kotaku.com has a review of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix up, go here to find out what they said about it: http://kotaku.com/5169297/puzzle-quest-gal...w-lost-in-space