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N64 Édition Québec Issue 17 (December 2000)

By Argus

N64 Édition Québec Issue 17 (December 2000)

17 downloads

0 comments

Submitted yesterday at 01:24 PM
PSM2 Issue 16 (December 2001)

By Gregorick

PSM2 Issue 16 (December 2001)

52 downloads
- psm2
0 comments

Submitted yesterday at 01:07 PM
PLAY Issue 59 (November 2006)

By dablais

PLAY Issue 59 (November 2006)

62 downloads
- play
0 comments

Submitted yesterday at 01:26 AM
Computer Gaming World Issue 126 (January 1995)

By MigJmz

Computer Gaming World Issue 126 (January 1995)
*missing 2 pages

65 downloads

0 comments

Updated Friday at 10:31 PM
PSM2 Issue 01 (October 2000)

By Gregorick

PSM2 Issue 01 (October 2000)

61 downloads
- psm2
3 comments

Submitted Friday at 12:52 PM
PSM2 Issue 15 (November 2001)

By Gregorick

PSM2 Issue 15 (November 2001)

74 downloads
- psm2
0 comments

Submitted Thursday at 03:12 PM
PSM2 Issue 29 (December 2002)

By Gregorick

PSM2 Issue 29 (December 2002)

81 downloads
- psm2
0 comments

Submitted Wednesday at 12:26 PM
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol. 2 No. 1 (March/April 1989)

By kitsunebi

*For an explanation of this issue's title, scroll down a ways, past the screenshots.
Here we are with another of my Game Player's PC restoration projects. Anyone familiar with early issues of Game Player's knows how poorly they were produced/printed, so I've put in A LOT of extra effort trying to get these things looking better than they did the day they rolled off the presses.
Normally one of these GP issues would take me a couple of weeks, but thanks to summer vacation (yay teaching), I've managed it in only 4 days! That may not seem like much when some of my peers release scans on a daily basis, but hear me out. As I said, these take special care in editing. I didn't time myself exactly, but today I finished up the final 27 pages in one sitting, working non-stop for 140 minutes. That averages out to a bit over 5 minutes per page, which for the total 136 pages works out to about 11.5 hours of editing time (figure in another hour for debinding & scanning). So considering I'm not being paid, 11 and a half hours of work over 4 days is pretty good, especially when I'm supposed to be on vacation!
I usually post a couple of before/after shots, so here we go.

And now, regarding the title:
Hoo boy. OK, this is the last time I've got to explain the $%@!ed up origins of these Game Player's titles. I hope.
So you may have noticed that I've titled this Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol. 2 No. 1 despite it clearly having Game Player's Buyer's Guide Vol. 1 No. 1 on the cover. Here's why:
When they first began, Signal Research clumped all of their titles together under a single numbering system, alternating between titles about Nintendo games and titles about PC games.
For the record, Volume 1 of Game Player's went like this:
Vol.1 No.1 The Game Player's Guide to Nintendo (this issue was also sold under the title Game Player's Nintendo Buyer's Guide)
Vol.1 No.2 The Game Player's Guide to MS-DOS Computer Games
Vol.1 No.3 Game Player's Nintendo Strategy Guide (this issue was also sold under the title Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games)
Vol.1 No.4 Game Player's MS-DOS Strategy Guide
After that, the Nintendo and PC titles went their separate ways, and the very next issue of the PC mag was this one, titled Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide Vol. 1 No. 1, which would be fine if they were starting over with a new volume 1, but they didn't. Because the issue FOLLOWING this one was titled Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol. 2 No. 2. This means that this issue (PC Buyer's Guide Vol. 1 No. 1) was retroactively considered to be Vol. 2 No. 1.
So here's the first 2 volumes of the PC title in full (as titled on the covers):
The Game Player's Guide to MS-DOS Computer Games Vol.1 No.2
Game Player's MS-DOS Strategy Guide Vol.1 No.4
Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide Vol.1 No.1.
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol.2 No.2
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol.2 No.3
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol.2 No.4
Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide Vol.2 No.5
Since these are all essentially the same magazine title, (and so that they will sort correctly alphabetically on hard drives), it makes sense to me to rename both Buyer's Guides as well as change this issue to Vol 2 No 1 (since otherwise a Vol.2 No.1 wouldn't exist.)
If you disagree, feel free to rename your file however you like after you download it.

99 downloads

4 comments

Updated Wednesday at 04:48 AM
Game Player's Guide to MS-DOS Computer Games Vol. 1 No. 2 (Fall 1988)

By kitsunebi

This was originally scanned by marktrade years ago, and due to a combination of the magazine's age and the non-standard settings applied to the scanner used, the original file's pages look VERY dark and VERY brown. Anyone wanting that "pure" version can find it on the Internet Archive.
Cleaning this up and trying to make it look less than a zillion years old was probably the most complicated editing job I've ever done, as I had to edit the picture and text portions of each page completely separately. Simply cranking up the white levels would obviously ruin everything by bleaching out text/images, so I had to use different techniques (indeed, I never once even touched the white/black levels) while editing. But the end result is certainly a lot cleaner than this file has ever looked. Go on, try to guess which is the original and which is my edit.

PLEASE NOTE: This issue is part of the early "WTF are we doing do we even know how to publish magazines" era of Game Player's. When they first began, Signal Research clumped all of their titles together under a single numbering system. So although this issue is labeled Vol.1 No.2, it is in fact the very first of their PC game line of mags (though the title would change a couple of times in rapid succession before settling on "Game Player's PC Strategy Guide.")
For the record, Volume 1 of Game Player's went like this:
Vol.1 No.1 The Game Player's Guide to Nintendo (this issue was also sold under the title Game Player's Nintendo Buyer's Guide)
Vol.1 No.2 (this issue) The Game Player's Guide to MS-DOS Computer Games
Vol.1 No.3 Game Player's Nintendo Strategy Guide (this issue was also sold under the title Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games)
Vol.1 No.4 Game Player's MS-DOS Strategy Guide (in my scan pile)
After that, the Nintendo and PC titles went their separate ways, but because Signal Research loves confusion SO FREAKING MUCH, the very next issue of the PC mag was titled Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide Vol.1 No.1.
So here's the first 2 volumes of the PC title in full:
The Game Player's Guide to MS-DOS Computer Games Vol.1 No.2
Game Player's MS-DOS Strategy Guide Vol.1 No.4
Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide Vol.1 No.1.
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol.2 No.2
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol.2 No.3
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol.2 No.4
Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide Vol.2 No.5
...and from this point they continued in order, beginning a new volume at the start of a new year. But rest assured, THERE IS NO Vol.1 No.1, Vol.1 No.3, or Vol.2 No.1 of the PC title (the PC Buyer's Guide Vol.1 No.1 is retroactively considered Vol.2 No.1.) And don't expect concrete/accurate cover dates on these early issues - THEY DON'T HAVE ANY. So we're going with "best guesses."
For the further adventures of Game Player's PC Strategy Guide, follow along as they release the odd issue under the title Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide, and then switch to the title Game Players PC Entertainment, all using the same number system they started back with The Game Player's Guide to Nintendo. And then of course, they eventually relaunched as PC Gamer. But that's another story.

Preservation is learning, kids. Sometimes we learn about the stuff written in the magazines. And sometimes we learn that you can completely sh*t the bed when starting a publishing line of magazines, and yet still have people reading and talking about them 35 years later.
Game Player's™: An inspiration for f*ckups everywhere.

287 downloads

3 comments

Updated Wednesday at 02:17 AM
PLAY (UK) Issue 060 (March 2000)

By Gregorick

PLAY (UK) Issue 060 (March 2000)

87 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Tuesday at 12:50 PM
Edge Issue 033 (June 1996)

By MigJmz

Edge Issue 33 (June 1996)

77 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Tuesday at 05:50 AM
PLAY Issue 056 (August 2006)

By dablais

PLAY Issue 56 (August 2006)

118 downloads
- play
0 comments

Updated Monday at 11:04 PM
PLAY Issue 062 (February 2007)

By dablais

PLAY Issue 62 (February 2007)

119 downloads
- play
0 comments

Updated Monday at 11:04 PM
PLAY Issue 072 (December 2007)

By dablais

PLAY Issue 72 (December 2007)

89 downloads
- play
0 comments

Updated Monday at 11:03 PM
Sega Saturn Magazine Issue 33 (July 1998)

By Gregorick

Sega Saturn Magazine Issue 33 (July 1998)

85 downloads

4 comments

Submitted August 4
N64 Édition Québec Issue 16 (November 2000)

By Argus

N64 Édition Québec Issue 16 (November 2000)

22 downloads

0 comments

Submitted August 4
Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK Issue 012 (October 2001)

By Gregorick

Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK Issue 012 (October 2001)

102 downloads

0 comments

Submitted August 3
PC Power Issue 11 (November 1994)

By kitsunebi

Yet another one of those pesky oversized UK mags that OGM's J of Oz was kind enough to scan for me.
This issue came with two CDs (odd, since they could have fit the content of both onto a single disc) which I've uploaded here:
DISC 1
DISC 2

64 downloads

3 comments

Submitted August 3
Official UK PlayStation Magazine Issue 020 (June 1997)

By Gregorick

Official UK PlayStation Magazine Issue 020 (June 1997)

87 downloads

1 comment

Submitted August 2
Official UK PlayStation Magazine Issue 042 (February 1999)

By Gregorick

Official UK PlayStation Magazine Issue 042 (February 1999)

86 downloads

5 comments

Submitted August 1
RUN Volume 2, Number 12 (December 1985)

By E-Day

RUN Volume 2, Number 12 (December 1985)

59 downloads

0 comments

Submitted July 31
Computer Games Strategy Plus Issue 015 (February 1992)

By dablais

Computer Games Strategy Plus Issue 015 (February 1992)

107 downloads
- computer games strategy plus
2 comments

Submitted July 31
N64 Édition Québec Issue 12 (June 2000)

By Argus

N64 Édition Québec Issue 12 (June 2000)

30 downloads

0 comments

Updated July 31
PC Gamer UK Issue 075 (November 1999)

By MigJmz

PC Gamer UK Issue 075 (November 1999)

90 downloads

0 comments

Submitted July 30
Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol. 2 No. 4 (September/October 1989)

By kitsunebi

ADF scanners are great, but every long once in a while disaster strikes. These early Game Player's are printed on super-thin paper, and sometimes the scanner's rollers fail to grip the page properly before pulling it through. One minute, you're happily scanning, and the next to hear the loud sound of crumpling paper as the scanner wads up a page caught in the rollers.
Luckily I was able to rescue it before it was torn to shreds. and salvage it in editing. Gave me a fright, though.😅

Super-thin crumpled pages aside, Game Player's also has TERRIBLE photography in some of the screenshots. Look at these two, from the same game. One, decent and in-focus, and the other, taken on baby's-first-disposable-camera during an earthquake.

Bringing some of the (proper) color back to the photography is what makes editing this mag so time-consuming (some pages taking up to 20 minutes editing each screenshot separately), but as Game Player's PC is one of the few mags I'm personally interested in, I want to make it as good as I can, even if it means double-digit hours hunched over Photoshop.

111 downloads

13 comments

Submitted July 27