KiwiArcader

And if you are considering playing older games the PC absolutely rules for retro-gaming

I'm sure if EGM had a nude centrefold article like Playboy they'd sell HEAPS of issues. It would be a little like the "Standard" issue without the article and the "Unrated" issue in a plastic bag. Sex is a form of gaming after all

Issues 178 and 191 have been scanned. Issue 178 is available over at OGM but 191 is subject to date restrictions. At least it's scanned for the day we can make it available.... Has anyone got copies of issues dated Jan and Feb 2003 that they can scan the cover and inside advert for me? Mine are missing. If I can get these I will scan and make the issues available.

They certainly didn't have gaming mags in the room where you had to conjure up a semen sample for fertility testing. They might have had Areala's nudity article there if it included pictures though

Hence scanning our print copies :-)

I'd rather purchase a magazine anyday than rely on the internet. Sure, the net is great for quick turnaround of information but usually it's here today, gone tomorrow. Much like buying a Blu-ray or DVD, at least get to keep what you bought when you buy a print copy which is something that can't be said for digital purchases. Look at all those people who purchased issues of Future PLC's defunct iTunes digital magazines. They stopped producing the magazine and now your digital purchases can't even be restored in the event your iPad dies if you didn't archive the apps in iTunes. Same for Hyper on the Pixelmags Readr app. They take your money then absolve themselves of any responsibility just like the original Divx fiasco year ago. The laws need to change to protect digital purchasers. It's hard to feel sad for publishers over dropping magazine titles at all when they foster that shit on consumers.

Anything with nudity is always going to get attention. It certainly got mine :-) Seriously though, I think some publishers also shot themselves in the foot as well by releasing multiple publications for a single console. Future PLC as a classic example where they offered several different titles for the majour consoles of the day. They will say that they were targeted at different demographics but in reality consumers tend to have a certain amount of discretionary income so people tend to buy one magazine and stick with it. The result was no title had enough sales to make them fiscally viable which ultimately resulted in their axing several titles in an effort to make one financially sustainable. The downside of that is those people who preferred the other titles that got shafted usually get pissed off and look elsewhere for their fix rather than supporting the company so while the costs are reduced by not having to print multiple titles you also don't pick up crossover customers for the title you are still publishing. Ouch!!! Note that this rationalization/ dropping of titles isn't anything new. You only have to look back at companies like Argus Publications in the UK in the 1980's to see similar problems. Then there are all the myriad mergers of Atari ST magazines in the 1990's where magazines were sold from one publisher to another, got merged into another title only to then get sold off again to see that while the internet certainly is playing a part today that nothing much has changed in this regard.

Probably the very reason those DVD collections of Retro Gamer and Games tm had placeholders for the advertising ....

Issues 32 and 143 have been scanned and are available over at OGM

Now you're making want to get more out of the basement and scan those. They'll have to wait until I've finished my last four PC Gamer (USA) issues though. One of those is a complete behemoth too .....

Yeah, it's a great site and they've done a good job collecting all the issues. The main problems I have with their scans are the presence of lots of lines due to not cleaning the scan plates on their document scanners and the small size due to reduced quality and using OCR which runs the risk of typing errors. Better than nothing though and until I can acquire a bigger collection they're the only game in town. Go to my site if you want three issues in higher resolution.

I remember those. They were a pain indeed. Although I think I came along at the time when we'd just started direct downloads rather than or in addition to torrents. As I recall I argued that PDF's rendered everything moot and when I tried offering my mags as PDF's I got banned for my troubles by the mods of the day. Quite heated it all became...... Interesting reading about your search results via Google. Not sure why you don't get hits. If I search Google using a new browser, clean cache for Amiga Format, Nintendo World, Atomic:MPC, N64 Magazine I get front page hits for OGM while other magazines don't show until page 2. I'm guessing it's popularity of searches for those magazines determine their caching order? Maybe forums are more difficult to pull information from than HTML/WordPress based sites?

Each to their own. Phillyman wants them on Retromags .... I don't on OGM. To me it's as much about the fact that the magazine didn't come with them so why add them. It makes the magazine less than a perfect digital reproduction of the original because extra content exists where it doesn't with the print version. In my personal experience nothing grates on me more than having all those "scanned by <insert pirate group name here>" pages on the front or rear, or in some cases both, of a digital download. They just suck and detract from the experience of reading the magazine/comic in my books so the first thing I do is delete them out of the PDF/CBR etc. But that's just me. That's one of a few reasons why I don't actively make my magazine scans available here anymore. I respect Phillyman's desire to advertise the site in any way he chooses but I don't want to be forced to comply with that, or use .CBR files etc, so I created OGM. And as someone who has seen the absolute worst aspects of a forum community on this very site in the past it's one of the reasons I went with WordPress rather than use a forum myself for anything other than scanning members.

I find the inclusion of a "Thank You" page a waste of time as our files are seeded around the various sites without the things being included in the majority of cases as they don't want you to know where they ripped them off from. Additionally, in the case of the Retromags version it doesn't "Thank" or acknowledge the person that scanned and provided the magazine in the first place and who is essentially the only person who probably deserves thanks anyway. Then you put a statement in that you shouldn't hurt the publishers by charging for making a copy for anyone else even though "we" essentially pirated it in the first place. Bit of a moral conundrum that one is in my books. Then there's the fact that you are advertising yourself as "pirates" to the publishers. That's a two edged sword ..... The reality is that anyone wanting/ interested in finding these magazines is automatically going to get directed here or OGM simply by searching on Google as we've been around for quite some time now so it's questionable to say it has ever resulted in someone "finding" the site without actually doing the research to prove it one way or the other.

Nope to physical copy. I do have the PDF I acquired from Underground-gamer though and I don't have any issues making it available on OGM. It was protected but that was an easy fix so I can whack it out easily enough......

Hey mate, Were you looking for this?

Issue 59 is now available over at OGM

On the subject of PC Gamer do you have a list or cover page gallery of all the issues released for the USA version, particularly the early years? I thought they released 12 issues a year but by the way you have your latest release listed as issue 09 I am thinking the first few muust have been bi-monthly. That would mean my issue 25 is actually incorrect and should be earlier. Any help much appreciated my friend.....

I am a Team Member because before I started OGM I scanned a heap of magazine issues for the site. There was an issue with some former mods here which caused a ruckus, things got really ugly and I got banned, reinstated but at that point I found the site restrictions on what could be made available somewhat untenable so I created my own site. All water under the bridge now and I have no problems with Phillyman and E-Day whatsoever. Phillyman even said I could host Retromags mags over at OGM if I wanted but I actually like the idea of diversity. Different sites contributing different content to the preservation scene each with their own following etc. If you look at Retromags it predominantly hosts USA content .... Nintendo Power, EGM, GamePro etc while OGM is home to the biggest collection of Australian content anywhere thanks to the big three (Jason, Aral Dite and myself) scanners living in this part of the world. The one problem with that view is IF a site were to shut down overnight you could see whole swathes of magazines simply disappear. Linking a magazine here to a download on my server doesn't solve that issue. It only irritates people coming here when the link doesn't work if OGM shut down for some reason or another so the only logical solution is to host content the locally. That's something I'm not sure Phillyman wants to entertain necessarily for a couple of reasons. I create PDF's for OGM while this site prefers CBR files Currently my site is host to over 2200 files totally over 450GB. That's pretty immense so I am not sure if he has the space or the inclination to want to store all that on his server If he hosts OGM content locally and I host Retromags content will it dilute support of one or another of the sites? This last point is an issue I grapple with myself when I see my files uploaded all over Archive.org and the asswipes who uploaded them didn't even have the good graces to say where they got them from. It has made me wonder why I bother keeping OGM going when donations to my site over the last two years barely covered the shipping costs to send a scanner to New Zealand and I am personally covering all the costs to run the site while Phillyman has no end of donations and Archive.org ... well ... don't get me started on them. The ONLY reason OGM exists today is because a group of guys liked what I was doing there rather than Retromags and threw their lot in with me either by providing scans or server space to host files locally (god bless Ali). If they want to contribute to Retromags instead I'll shut the site down and likely stop scanning magazines altogether. It's not a threat at all. It just reflects where my head space is after nearly a decade of scanning magazines. You guys contributing to OGM are all that's keeping me in the game. I'm tired, and old, and old and tired in that order.

Awesome mate... I had been looking at that one with a view to editing it so this saves me a whole lot of work

Don't bother. Just grab it from PCXL issue 21. It's page 43 ​

Oops. Forgot to update the page. You can grab them from the download server dl.oldgamemags.com Just navigate to multi-format>egm and grab what you want as fast as your connection is capable of.

Eighteen issues of EGM dating from 2001 - 2006 are scanned and available over at my website. I have another 30 or so issues in the same date range that are still to be scanned at some point. The thin glossy pages of these mags are particularly difficult for my document scanner so I do one when I am sufficiently calm enough to not throw the scanner out the window ​ I don't run quite as strict date restrictions as Phillyman over there but I do understand his reticence about changing it. Each to their own ......

Was she blonde? I was too busy looking at the uniform to notice. Such a nice one it was.

I think I have approx 6 issues of the one you are referring to. Issues 1 & 4 are already scanned