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I am looking for Compute! Issue 90 - November 1987, anyone have it? Scan or buy it from you, either way, I don't care, just want to get a copy of it.

With an investment the size they want, there would more than likely be some kind of Gamefan presence surfacing either online or in print form that could produce revenue besides reprinting the old issues. Your idea of running an article from a previous issue with a new article on an old game is something that E-day and me discussed, I believe, that Gamepro, EGM and even Game Informer could do for these virtual console releases and such. I like it, just wish more current mags would do it.

Well, at the moment the best I could get on a publishing deal for a magazine (just say for instance, a republish of Gamefan) would be about $15 an issue with a print run under a 1000. That is just publishing on 80 pound stock (the same as the original run of Gamefan under Halverson) with a 4 color cover and running about 100 pages (that would cover what the first say 10 issues or so of Gamefan).

The main reason I can see the low circulation/high quality model not working in the US is that companies here, and people in general, are too focused on being number one with the highest possible distribution available even if it means shooting themselves in the foot. Look back at how Gamefan started, they had a print run of 5000 on the first issue, they didn't get to 10000 or higher until around the 3rd or 4th issue, which it worked for them, had they staid with their original publisher they may have still been around, express.com/gamecave started crippling it then with the money Eidos pumped in (reportedly 55 million dollars) I am sure some people changed roles as new ones were brought in.

Well thank you, it is very much a happy time for me now! Thank you for doing Maximum, I just wish they would have had a run similar to Gamefan (I noticed that there are a couple of people that worked on both like Hodgeson I think is his name, he was Chief Hambleton in GF). Wonderful mag. I was just about to go and burn the Maximums that you had up before (1220 or so resolution) to DVD for archiving, hard drive is making funny noises, been there before, start backing up now!!!! lol Then I saw the post about redoing them...Very cool indeed.

Don't mind me, just waiting on the full set of Maximum to be redone...

Hidinger, some NES, along with other system's, games have lables too. Double Dragon III has a lable and box art available, take a look around and see what they have. They also have a forum over there for requests and such, just sign up and request lables for the games you would like them for.

Hidinger, I apologise if you thought I was making that 'actual intelligent responses' at you or anyone else here. I meant, that I know, if I had posted this on the Gamefaqs message board that the fanboys would tear me a new one over how ignorant it sounds or some other trivial matter. I have talked extensively with E-day about this situation and one of the ideas I had, if everything went through, was to do a retro-subscription service. E-day pointed out that the mail is not known for being dependable and that unwanted damage could be done to each mag. He mentioned the idea of doing annuals with a nice protective case or something. I like that idea, but each volume would probably have to be prohibitely priced for the casual (and possibly even the hardcore collector in these economic times) fan to buy. Another problem I face in doing anything with the mags, if this goes through (haven't completely given up), is the licensed game ads. The ads from companies like Konami and such won't be problem, as they are owned by the magazine after printing and usually there are agreements that they can be reprinted and such. The problem is with games based on Disney, Warner Bros and Nickelodean, etc games. Those ads would have to be re-negotiated to be reprinted as they are licensed properties. Would it be the same without those licensed ads? There aren't that many that I have noticed. Just another opinion question there.

It is the general fanboyism of Gamefaqs as to why I posted it over here, and only here. Besides, I was interested in actual intelligent responses to the situation.

I didn't know you did stuff for that site Thor, is your username the same over there? I am interested in seeing your work. While some will use it for emulation purposes I mainly posted it for people like Thor said that have the game but no case and can get replacement cases, now you have a sleeve to put in it, rather than having just a blank case sitting there.

The reason I called it a replacement cover site is because you can get the original cover for most games along with a new redesigned one, in case you lost the original. Also, they convert many original covers to fit the Universal Game Case that supports almost every cartridge released (not sure about Neo Geo though). Plus, some of those covers are pretty good like the uniform set for portable Zelda or the Gamecube Resident Evil games.

Not sure if anyone has seen this here but it is an interesting site in my opinion: http://www.thecoverproject.net/index.php

Ok, for about 6 years now I have been persuing the purchase, or at least the owner, of Gamefan Magazine (call me idealistic) just to see what it would be going for. After many months, maybe a year, of searching I finally got in contact with a gentleman that claimed to own the rights to the magazine. We talked back and forth and finally after feeling confident about his truthfulness, I started thinking it would be a good idea to know how much this was going to cost before persuing funding from investers. Well, everything came to a head recently, I think that is the term used, when I got to accompany two investers to a meeting about Gamefan and all related materials (including original mag prints of everything the magazine produced) and stuff like promotional items and photos (both signed by former staff and most not signed). Most importantly, this includes the rights to everything to do with as seen fit. My question is, who here believes it would have been worth $625,000.00 total? They broke it down with 2 sets of numbers but would not sell individually. The final offer was quite a bit less than that and was subsequently turned down just so you know. Any opinions?

Handhelds is also missing the Turbo Express, anyone remember that little $300 portable?

Why not just renew your subscription early so that you get the better supplement? They will just up your number of issues (just make sure to point out that you have a current subscription and your subscriber number and address-pretty much all the information you can, just to be safe).

Why can't they just program the game to keep a small text file of your achievements and have the trophy patch/award system just check that when you patch your game? I mean, they know there is going to be an award/trophy system someday, just program it to check that text file when added. Simple. I know it probably is not that easy but surely it can't be that hard.

Yeah, pretty much you have the right idea. Currently most releases are in 1440 wide resolution (just resize the scans in your photo editing software, it should automatically scale the height too). Here is a topic about editing and scanning everything to get you started. If you are confused about something please, don't be afraid to ask about it, someone will help you. http://www.retromags.com/forums/Scanning-E...uide-t2727.html

I am not sure how these trophy things work (is it a patch or something? Then does it monitor what you are doing in the game?) but you would think they could do some kind of retro trophy posting (maybe in such a way as to tell you, hey, this has been done do you want the trophy or do you want to replay and earn it?). But I guess the system is not keeping track of say, you killing this character or earning that weapon like most games keep time trials for racing games and such, surely with RPG's they could go by what you have in your inventory (say, there is only one way to get a certain item, then surely you completed the challenge if you have it-instant trophy).

I for one am interested in the Blip! issues. Here is a recent topic on the needed Nintendo Power issues: http://www.retromags.com/forums/Nintendo-P...sues-t3231.html Feel free to mention your offer over there. There may be some issues that could use rescanning in better quality (not sure as I haven't downloaded them all).

Yeah, I hear you, right now the connection I have costs about $80 a month for 110K or so down/10-13K up. Of course I am about two miles out past BFE so it is either this or satellite with it's faster speed down and up but severe limit per month of transfer (around 3 gigs download-while my current connection is limited by only time and how fast the network is).

You are making me feel slow... Great work and might I add, very fast there meppi. Thank you.

I can cover whatever is needed for issues #117 through #122 complete. I have issues #123 and #124 somewhere around here but I can't find them right now so I am not going to vouch for those yet. I will add these to my que (got one more for invaliduserid and about 10 more for treshombres plus the gamefans so this can give me a little more variety in scanning ).

I uploaded the cover and joined poster for issue 121 (it is up there in an earlier post). I have several issues that are complete and can scan those needed parts for you. Do I just upload them to the server for you to get or is there somewhere else that you want them uploaded to? Also, about the covers in the Nintendo Power section that are in that one big zip, are you wanting anyone to piece them together and upload them to the joined section? If so, individually or in one big zip file? Sorry for so many questions, just want to help out as much as possible as I really enjoy the memories that I have been able to relive because of the other members hard work here.

Where are the issues that need the cover and poster? I looked around and couldn't find them on the site, is there somewhere else they are kept? I may be blind so please forgive me if they are in plain site here.

How are you going to pull that one off? I like the sound of it but it is more than likely going to be a beast to work out austhetically. Are the controls going to be wireless arcade type controls or are you going with console style controllers?