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You don't need an account to download magazines. So hopefully the fact that you don't want your account canceled means that you wish to participate in the forums or otherwise contribute to the site. Looking forward to having another active member onboard.

OGM has oodles more downloads than Retromags, especially UK/AUS/NZ and computer-related titles. (Btw, regarding PC Gamer, they have all the newer issues archived as well, they just aren't available to download so long as the publisher is still selling them). The VGHF provides lots of scans to Retromags, actually. A significant amount of the scans released by MigJmz and dablais over the past couple of years were provided by them (anything with TheRedEye or Shadsy listed as scanner is from the VGHF.)

I also wish to no longer be a ghost. My NAS died a while back and I'm just now getting things going again. So when I came back for the first time it was a real roller coaster of emotions. From oh yeah, I remember this place, I bet there's a bunch of cool new scanned mags to download. To, oh no my account is about to be deleted! Thanks again to all the scanners that make all this possible!

@kitsunebi I did the PayPal request for an OldGameMags account to fill in some gaps. I hadn't seen that site yet. Thanks! This site also looks good, but doesn't have downloads: https://archive.gamehistory.org/

Ah, yeah, that’s later stuff. I accounted for Google Books and archive.org, plus the few we have here, plus a few individual ones on archive.org, plus our album of covers. Then I itemized them all to identify numbering patterns so I could surgically search Google/Ebay for issues I believed existed. Those unarchived issues are the ones I’m buying.

Yeah, between here and OldGameMags, I'm pretty sure every issue of both PC Gamer USA and UK are already available. A FAR cry from when I first joined and there were a literal handful of issues available. I'm not sure how helpful a list of what I've got would be. Aside from the stuff pulled from googlebooks, I've got about 100 digital PDFs from 2012-2020. But since none of that stuff can be shared here, and the identification marks you seem to be using aren't present on digital mags (vol/no on spine, ISSN on barcode box), I'm not sure how useful they'd be.

If you can give me the list you have above and beyond the archive.org dump, that would help. That lot is ~215 or so, then there were a few individual ones I found. The rest I assembled a list of from other places. I’m going to start acquiring batches and find copies of all the gaps. Off topic, I have nearly all the missing issues of PC Gamer now.

See, this is why your help on this title is needed. I've got 250 issues of this mag...on my hard drive, but I've never once seen an issue in person. I had no idea these things even HAD volume/issue numbers, since apparently the only place they ever printed that information WAS ON THE SPINE (which never gets scanned.) Having someone with physical copies in their hands put together this database is invaluable.

I played Invisible War on Xbox, but I was a loser and didn't really appreciate the right way to play it at the time. I just cheated and ran around with tons of guns. I really got into the two newer releases. So I always wanted to get into the first two games.

I didn't remember seeing one for this. Good find! I can't "like" your comment yet because it looked like someone changed the daily limit to 10 responses now? It used to be 30.

There are already scans of Invisible War and The Conspiracy (which is just the PS2 version of this guide) out there. This is the PC original one. Couldn't find it, so I scanned it. And asked dablais if he would put this one up under my user name, and he did. This is my favorite PC game ever. Flawless piece of art, this is.

The streak continues.... I got the GoG version years ago (GOTY and Revision Mod), but i've never played this game before. Even when it first came out. Having the guide will be great now. I hope this means other guides in the series are coming up, but I would image the two newer games have digital guides out there already.

Retromags Presents! Deus Ex - Prima's Strategy Guide (2000) [PC] Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: Roark406    Edited By: dablais    Uploaded By: dablais    Donated By: Roark406 Follow us on...                         

I found another special missing from my spreadsheet and have the hard copy on order. Following the anomalistic naming of line 205 with duplicate ISBNs "01" due to truncation of "101", there is also a duplicate ISBN "02" at the end of the year, for a special edition print-titled as "January/February 2011". 101 would have been winter 2009/2010 and 102 is winter 2010/2011. It follows Holiday 2010 and is numbered via ISBN for 2010, despite the print-title in 2011. Note my volume identifiers for both are linked to the print-titled year, with each showing 2009 and 2011 and neither showing 2010 even though their ISBNs are 2010. This issue should be titled as = Maximum PC Vol 16, No 014 (Winter 2011) ISBN 102 When I have a printed copy in my hands, I can confirm, but this should match what's printed on the spine. I've not been able to find any other image search results for this specific issue. Because of the ISBN and time of year, I do not believe there are Summer, Spring, Fall, or additional special editions on 2010. The two saddled winters are the only ISBN 100s.

Retromags Presents! PLAY Issue 56 (August 2006) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: shadsy    Edited By: dablais    Uploaded By: dablais    Donated By: shadsy Follow us on...