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If I may toot our own horn, in regards to magazine preservation, I think sites like ours and Kiwi's are ultimately the more beneficial to the world at large, even if we're all doing this as a hobby at our own expense. The Library of Congress is great, but they're mostly keeping archival copies of things that are available in some form to the rest of the world. If they kept archival copies of unpublished manuscripts from history's greatest writers, well, that just wouldn't seem right - people would want copies made available so everyone could read them. And that's what we do. Archival copies of magazines are nice and all, but we make that material easily accessible to the world, and that's a more valuable service than keeping a hard copy tucked away in a box any day, in my opinion.

There's one historically important magazine that needs to be scanned: Club Nintendo Mexico. Most of its material was completely original thanks to the fact they had direct access to Nintendo materials through an import company that handled distribution for them here; they also reported on local events such as the launch of Chavez, and even had a hand in localizing some games for the region. They also had interviews with developers from Europe, Japan and America, and their coverage of E3 and Tokyo Game Show was unheard of for the time. Plus they're the only magazine that ran news coverage on the cancelled Dragon Ball Z Shin Butouden 3 localization. Unfortunately, in its later years, it just started to reprint stuff from Nintendo Power. But the early stuff is important. I have a few years worth of magazines upstairs. Magazines from other countries did reprint stuff from other places, but Club Nintendo Mexico shouldn't really be looked over. And trust me, if I -could- scan these, I totally would, but my scanner is a piece of garbage that barely works and is full of uncleanable dust.

Retromags Presents! Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 199 (January 2006) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: hardcorehubz    Edited By: MigJmz    Uploaded By: hardcorehubz    Subscribe to our New Release Feedburner email!