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Hello and welcome to Retromags!
Retromags is a teamwork driven website. This means that your participation is needed and appreciated to keep this site functioning. We have taken on the task of preserving video game magazines from the late 1970's to 1999. Our goal is to preserve these great magazines so that they can live on eternally through digital copies since publishers are not doing it themselves. This task requires us to join together to not only acquire these magazines, but also to scan, edit and distribute the final result.
We understand that not everyone who joins our site has access to a scanner or a stack of old gaming magazines. We know that not everyone will be proficient in photo editing software such as Gimp or Photoshop. But those are not the only ways you can contribute on this website. Just by being an active member that replies to posts and creates a few of their own...you are helping us out. From time to time we may have a donation drive in order to purchase a rare magazine from eBay that would be prohibitively expensive for an individual to buy on their own.
We distribute our magazines through third party file hosting sites. We have a lifetime account to MegaUploads, with a direct upload box that allows you to upload scans to our account. There are also options when you submit a magazine to the Downloads section to add links for RapidShar, Hotfile, and ZShare.
Up until November 2008 we were using torrents to distribute our releases. The only problem was, No one would help seed after they got 100% of the file. As such we have dropped this as a viable solution for distributing files. Members are encouraged to spread our releases....so long as they do not change the files in question in such ways as downgrading the quality or removing the Retromags Thank You page (final page).
Once again, Welcome to Retromags, and Enjoy your stay!
-E-Day
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Welcome to Retromags, the vintage video game magazine archive
Welcome to Retromags, the vintage video game magazine archive. This site is all about digitally preserving video game magazines from yesteryear. You'll find hundreds of full issues to download and thousands of scanned magazine covers. Game magazines used to be incredibly important to the game industry, and while those days are long gone thanks to the Internet and World Wide Web, that does not mean those old magazines shouldn't be remembered and enjoyed today. This site allows you to do so easily and digitally. It's a nice alternative to having to have boxes of magazines stored in your house if that's something you don't want.
We are always looking for help, be it scanning or donating magazines, or contributing to the site in other forms. It costs nothing to be a member of this site. We do not sell anything on this site, and there are no ads. There are no profits made on this site; any money that is ever obtained by this site goes towards the cost of hosting the site.
A Note to Publishers and Content Owners
This site is set up to digitally preserve video game magazines from 1999 and earlier for current magazines. The rules for defunct magazines vary on a case-by-case basis. We do this because issues of these magazines are not readily available from publishers/content owners. While we don’t have legal permission, we operate in a way where we do not release anything that will reduce any potential income for you, or magazines that are available from you, nor do we release scans that are of a quality that may reflect poorly on you. So far this has worked, with several publishers/content owners basically ignoring our existence.
However, if you wish that we do not make content that you legally have ownership available on this site, just let us know and we will remove it. While we would prefer permission, we will fully oblige with your wishes concerning your content. This is a hobby we do out of passion and love for the video game magazines of yesterday, and not worth legal battles of any kind.
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- Jimminy Momma Jammas
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