Retro Gaming Mags and tv programmes guff
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I know I've mentioned this before but as I was making a list of stuff for Mugsy earlier, it's made me aware what a whopping collection of gaming related PDF'd mags and tv programmes I've amassed over the years and it would be wrong not to share the love with any that may have missed it. Heck If anything happened to me I've no doubt Tracy would just format the drive!
Anyway the point is I'm happy to make copies of anything that people may want as long as they cover the costs (buying DVDs & postage).
Below is a screenshot of my gaming programmes stuff. Just noticed a couple of programs were missed off the screenshot, these are 'Trigger Happy' and 'A visit to ID Software'.
This is a list of the magaizines, most are full sets, others may contains just a selection of issues, about half of them are in PDF and the remainder in jpg format. Some of them eg Edge are bloody huge in size.
Atari
Antic
Atari Age
Atari Owners Mag
Commodore
Amiga Force
Amiga Power (10 issues)
Amiga World Mag - got this recently, early US mag
Commodore Die Hard
Commodore Disk User
Commodore Format
Commodore Free
Commodore Mag
Commodore Power-Play
Commodore World
Commodore Horizons
CU Amiga
RUN Mag (C64 & Vic 20)
The One (Amiga)
Your Commodore
Zzzap
Multi Format
Ace
Amstrad /Sinclair Ocio
Big K
Blip
C&VG
Classix
Computer Gaming World
Computer Play
Computer Gamer
Edge (114 issues)
Electronic Gaming Monthly
Format
Game Developer Mag
Game Informer
Game Pro
GAME Retro Section
Gamesmaster (7 issues)
GAMES TM eMag
Girls of Gaming
Hardcore Gamer Mag
Home Computing Weekly
Input
Joystick Mag
Maximum (7 issues)
Mean Machines
Micro Adventurer
Personal Computer Games
Raze
Retro Gamer Mag
Retro Maniac
Retroaction
The Games MAchine
The Home Computer Course
Your Computer
The Ultimate History of Computer Games Re-visited
Zero
Nintendo
Club Nintendo
Nintendo Power
Official Nintendo Mag
Super Play
Sega
Mean Machines-Sega
Official Sefa Saturn Mag
Sega Visions
Sinclair
16-48 Magazine
Crash
Sinclair User
The Complete Spectrum
To Do Spectrum
Your Sinclair
Your Spectrum
ZX
ZXirQ Live Alive
Anyway, let me know if anything tickles your fancy.Post edited by Mamemeister at 2011-10-28 17:50:32 -
There's some pretty brilliant stuff in there. Would love to have a look at some of the old mags, but hate the idea that I'll spoil my memories of how amazing I used to think they all were, a bit like when you play a game on an emulator that you thought was the best thing ever, only to discover its actually a bit shit. I'm going to have a long think about this as there's some amazing looking stuff .
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Yay for ZERO mag!
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I would love to get hold of some console mags from around '92-'94 when I used to feature regularly in the cheats sections with my Game Genie codes. My daughter has never seen any of them and I would especially like her to see the edition of Sega Power which featured a small news article when she was born (August 1993).
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Sega Power surprisingly is one that's never appeared, anything else Mark let me know.Post edited by Mamemeister at 2011-10-29 03:39:22
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I know, been having a really tough time trying to get hold of SP. Reckon it was an issue between August and November 1993 (the November one sticks in my mind for some reason).
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I'd be really interested in this Al as I never managed to hold onto any of my old magazines - I just don't have the space to keep them. Having them on DVD would be awesome and allow me to reindulge in a little geeky nostalgia.
I'm particularly interested in Crash as me, my brother and some of his mates used to produce a gaming-related fanzine back in the day and I seem to recall we sent it into one of the magazines who reviewed it, and it did quite well. I'm pretty sure it was Crash we posted it off to so it'd be nice to read the review again.
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I've got ZZAP and Crash on disc, and I know I downloaded ACE (hilariously, my external hard drive is currently saying that every single folder on it is empty, yet 250+GB is used). I'd certainly like to have more than just those though, so I'll have a little look at that lot and see what really appeals the most.
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Could you do me some stuff mames?
Bits, consolevania, gamesmaster, retrocore stuff, when games attack.
Commodore format, c&vg, gamesmaster, mean machines, mean machines sega and super play.
If that's ok let me know the cost or if it's too much stuff let me know and will prune the list! :) -
Got my ACE back. Stupid hard drive.
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Hmmm wouldn't mind Zzap!, Big K, ACE, Input and Zero ... postage to Ireland though but.
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Al, do you have every Your Computer from 1983 & 84? The WOS archive is missing a few and I'm still trying to track down a type in list for the Dragon from that period.
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ely said:
Al, do you have every Your Computer from 1983 & 84? The WOS archive is missing a few and I'm still trying to track down a type in list for the Dragon from that period.
Did I tell you lately that I love you, guys?
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Chaps, I've not got many DVDs left so what I'll need to do is order a pack of 100 and you can just pay me the actual cost per disk plus the postage, is that ok?
Ash - Uhm, the tv programs alone comes to 70 gig which is a lot of disks and will me some time.
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Could these be done on a Tombstone-style basis, where the more people that have them, the more can volunteer/offer their services? Al's going to put in a shitload of work here, which is good of him but he'll never get anything else done! I can do the ZZAP!/Crash/ACE sets if need be, and then we'll see what else I end up with (downloading Sega Saturn mag now).
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ely said:
Al, do you have every Your Computer from 1983 & 84? The WOS archive is missing a few and I'm still trying to track down a type in list for the Dragon from that period.
Ely - not a full set I'm afraid.
1983
Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Dec
1984
Jan, Mar, Apr, May, Jul, Spe, Oct & Nov
You tend to find it's mostly the same sets of these scans that do the rounds.
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I don't think DVDs are the way to go (unless you only wanted a couple of items or so). Surely it'd be better to buy yourself a decent sized memory card (or two etc..), or a portable hard drive (500MB is what.. about £40-50 get the stuff copied onto those (postage would be considerably less) then you can use the cards/drive for other things..?
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Yeah - I'll quite happily send a USB stick and an SAE if Zzap!, Big K, ACE, Input and Zero will fit on one ...
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That's not a bad idea Lans, since you can pick up 16gb, 32gb SD cards for not a lot of money. If anyone wanted to buy one send it on to me the cost of postage back would be the price of a 1st class stamp. Alternatively, anyone wishing to send on a USB drive would be fine too.
What I'll do is size up each persons 'order' then you can decide what method you want to use.
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Yep probably best before going nuts spending money etc!
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Yeah, like I posted the other day - you can pick up a 32GB memcard now for about £22
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/SDHC/MyMemory/MyMemory-32GB-SD-Card-(SDHC)---Class-10
or hard drives:
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/Portable-Hard-Drives?&filters=
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/Portable-Hard-Drives/Freecom/Freecom-320GB-Mobile-Drive-XXS-External-Hard-Drive (EDIT: Piss, this ones out of stock, but gives you an idea of what you get for so little cash)..
I use one of these:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/western-digital-my-passport-for-mac-portable-hard-drive-500gb-03768996-pdt.html (on a Win64 PC, not a Mac though :) )Post edited by Sir_LANsalot at 2011-10-29 07:23:12 -
An SD card sent back and forwards a couple of times would be the best way to go I reckon.
You're right about DVDs though, they're very slow to burn and aren't reliable. Fine if it's only a few but an Ashcroft order wouldn't be so feasable.
;-)Post edited by Mamemeister at 2011-10-29 07:21:14 -
so should we chip in for a communal SD card or hard drive we can pass along and alan can keep afterwards?
To be honest I have no idea on dvd sizes and stuff but after checking yeah 70gb seems a bit much for a few dvds! :D
Just the mags and gamesmaster on dvd would be how big size wise? -
Well, if Al can tell people the sizes of what they needed copied, you can just buy a suitably sized storage solution, ship it with an SAE, he can do the biz and ship it back, no?
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Here's the folder sizes Loves, I'll leave you to work out your own order size then decide the best way forward. Have to say I think Lan's SD card idea is great, no faffing about and minimum postage. Also means I can just set the bugger copying and leave it.
:-)
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Al, I'll just send you my eternal hard drive up.
Oh, wait...
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Please be aware the quality of the scans range wildly, single Edge scans are a whopping 200mb each so the quality is amazing. TBH though there's nothing I've come across that isn't completely readable on either the PC or Ipad. As I mentioned earlier about half are PDF format and the rest in jpg although it's easy enough to convert them to CBR and that I believe.
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SpookyElectric1 said:
I know, been having a really tough time trying to get hold of SP. Reckon it was an issue between August and November 1993 (the November one sticks in my mind for some reason).
Any of the '92-'94 main console mags would be good though.
I use to read Sega Power religiously from when it was printed on toilet paper (I think my first copy had a review of Populous on the Master System circa 1990?) and use to buy it along with Mean Machines from mid-1991 onwards so I may have the copy your looking for, can you remember what the cover/article was? I've never chucked any of my gaming mags out so if I bought it, it should be in there.
I can't remember the precise date I stopped buying SP but it was around the time they destoyed Mean Machines by splitting it into NMS and MMS, so possibly some time in 1993?
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I loved anyone for ever if they could find the type in Listing I failed to get working in 1983/84 on my Dragon. I even wrote about it.matt said:ely said:Al, do you have every Your Computer from 1983 & 84? The WOS archive is missing a few and I'm still trying to track down a type in list for the Dragon from that period.
Did I tell you lately that I love you guys?
@Mamemeister Ah well re: Your Computer issues, the hunt goes on then. I'm starting to think maybe it wasn't even in a Your Computer and maybe I should start looking for scans of Dragon User or hunting through the C&VGs I would have had.
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Massive props Al for offering these up for sharing.
There's a few old mags there I'd love to have a scan at...Maximum, Mean Machines, Zero, C&VG...can I wang an external HDD your way sometime in the future?...no rush. -
For reference a lot of those mags are getable off the World of spectrum FTP site.
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On it like a rocket.
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Managed to get my Sega Saturn mag download finished. Good stuff... now to look for something of a more mature vintage.
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Of course Degg my old son, that's why I posted here, to share. :-)
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@Throngor: Reckon it was either Aug, Sep, Oct or Nov issue. I think it was possibly the Nov one (Alladin on the cover?).
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Wow Al, that's a hell of a collection.
I've collected quite a few of the gaming videos that get linked up from time to time but I haven't really been organised enough to collect them all together on a single drive and organise them (and back them up). Maybe I can use this as justification to get an AppleTV (hacked) so I can play them back on demand from a network drive.
I do love old video game magazines, back when they had a decent amount of original content by people that actually enjoyed games (a bit like the early issues of Kerrang did with people that loved rock music). They kind of remind me of what we had/have here.
It's great fun to skim through them, and when I had to cull a load before moving out here I think I spent 80% of the time thumbing through them before recycling them (especially large colourful stuff like The One magazine and soem of the Amiga Power and ST Power issues).
I'm so familiar with the collections I kept that whenever anyone posts a picture of a C&VG cover I can visualise my exact copy, even remembering if it's fragile, torn slightly on the spine, or pristine. I doubt I'll ever get rid of them, but I will get some in electronic format in the future to browse them on a tablet or similar.
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ely said:
For reference a lot of those mags are getable off the World of spectrum FTP site.
Excellent heads up Ely, I reckon a lot of what I got from UG probably started off on there. Is there any easy way of grabbing stuff other than downloading all the pages from one issue at a time?
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I used the FTP method using Filezilla and set as anonymous login. Then just go to /pub/spectrum/magazines and drag and drop the folders :-)
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It's ace going back through the old mags, there's a real sense of optimism that bleeds out of the pages, even if the early ones were during some dark times of the early 80's when there was loads of unemployment and computers cost a fucking fortune. It brings back the feeling of the future was genuinely arriving. The sheer choice of computers back then was mindblowing. Back then I owned a Vic, Spectrum+ and a C64 but always secretly wanted an Oric Atmos.
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Yeah you're right Mick, you felt you were on a crest of a wave at the gates of this fantastic new technology. I'm genuinally grateful I was there right at the very start and enjoyed the thrill on every next step on the evolution to where we are today. Back then a new US Gold game was a weeks wages from my part-time job, now I can download it in the blink of an eye, just mental.
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Thanks Ely, nailed it.
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@Alan
The great thing is that us old farts have seen the huge strides since the ZX81, people nowadays get slightly better systems but the steps seem a lot smaller. I saw and played the ZX81 in 192 and one year later I owned a Vic and it was light years in front of that computer. Two years later and I had the Spectrum and while the sound took a step back the overall experience was yet again a big stride. The C64 was another and then it was onto the ST and the leap of technology was mind blowing. From the Vic to the ST was about six years for me and there's not really been such a jump in that time frame since.
Although it could be mentioned that I owned a PC in 96 which started the computer arms race until the consoles (360 and PS3) came along. It seems the last 10 years or so has seen the limits pushed but not by such large margins. -
Hell of a year, 192. Shame about that library. Leap year, too.
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When you compare what the Amiga could do with the PS3/360 abilities ; massive sand box gaming worlds, realistic physics, interacting with everything, multi-player, almost photo-realistic graphics, perfect, real sound etc, the leaps are huge but for some reason (at least for me) there was less of a thrill. The last huge 'Fuck me, look at that' moment I had was jumping from the C64 to the ST. I went from inflated blocky sprites to his-res coloured visual with digitised sound. Now you get a new machine and hardly raise an eyebrow at what it can do. It's probably down to me just getting older mind.
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I knew Mick was old but...........mugsy said:Hell of a year, 192. Shame about that library. Leap year, too.
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I think it was the first time I had a PC. That speed jump made all the difference, along with the more complex graphics. Mind you, considering all the work it took to make the thing work at all, I think I was just amazed that it did anything.
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Mamemeister said:
The last huge 'Fuck me, look at that' moment I had was jumping from the C64 to the ST.
I'd add Thunderforce III on the MD - and Doom, surely? But, yeah, even that only moves it on from 1986 to 1993. -
the opening video of FF7 when the view sweeps into midgard after the spotlight leaves the logo on screen was pretty special too.
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Mentioned it before but seeing Tekken running on the PS1 being a 99.9% perfect replica of the Arcade version was one of mine.
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Granted all of these examples were ground-breaking at the time but none compared to the wow factor I got personally going from 8 to 16 bit. Must admit mind seeing Tekken and realising you had an arcade machine in the home was a bit special.
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I think the only other 3D fighter I'd seen prior to that was Virtua Fighter 1 - Flat Shaded polys and crude characters so to see full texture mapped chars running at 50/60fps was pretty mind boggling for the time...
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