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LOL, I only collected VG&CE so I sorted them chronologically, but I used to know which issue/cover was which month and year, so I know what you mean

Agreed! Wasn't Sega Visions a free publication for a while?

I didn't realize it had changed from VG&CE to Video Games: TUGM later on - thanks for the heads-up on that. I'll have to be on the lookout for some of those issues to compare. I just think after Andy Eddy left the magazine became a different animal, and it just wasn't as good as it was during the magazine's peak, which would have been 1991-1992.

Thanks Jimminy, I sorta half-figured out what needed to be done, but I hadn't put the RAR-CBR and ZIP-CBZ connection together. Now that I know that, a surprising number of things I have downloaded that just need the files renamed from .CBR to .CBZ and they work! I am quite liking this SideBooks iPad app - it works pretty slick. The one thing that sucks about it is that if you put something on the device that is the wrong type (i.e. a CBR that should be renamed as a CBZ), the app crashes several times before it will let you open it up again and show you that the files are "broken". Once I figured that out, however, it's pretty easy to work around. Now I just need to rename the mag files I downloaded as CBR to CBZ's and they work fine

Is Bookman a paid app? I don't have my iPad right here to look. I tried a couple apps with an issue or two of VG&CE I nabbed from here, but neither file opened in any of the apps I tried. I am considering re-converting them to PDF files, but what might I be doing wrong? I installed the apps and then used iTunes to import the .CBR files directly into the app. I also tried importing them as .ZIP files to see if I needed to do that, but that didn't work. Any thoughts? I'd love to just be able to bring the CBR files straight in because I have a few other things I'd like to bring in rather than convert from CBR to ZIP, unzip, then print back to PDF.

That's too bad. As overblown as I remember GamePro being during the early-mid 90's, his column was one I remember enjoying and always felt like it was well-written and thought out.

Did these ever get rescanned and shared? I am a Saturn lover and would appreciate getting these scans, if anyone has them and would be willing to share

Doubtful, since the iOS file system is pretty locked down. Unless there's a compatible e-reader that can auto-associate the .ZIP, .RAR, or other archive or e-book format natively once installed on the iPad (or other iOS device), chances are you would have to download them to a PC or MAC first, install the app, then use iTunes to move those files into the app's own "container". I did find an app for iPad called "CoudReaders" which apparently can handle PDF, CBZ and CBR formats, and you can supposedly link up via BlueTooth, as well as reading titles "in the cloud", but I'm not quite sure how that functionality works yet because I only just got my iPad at the beginning of the week and haven't had a chance yet to really play around with the app.

Looks like maybe you need a new host after the whole MegaUpload debacle. MediaFire has taken down most (if not all) of your files.

I haven't read EGM in years - has it been any good in the last couple years? During the 90's when I was reading game mags, EGM always seemed to be a lot of style over substance, and they fell victim to the industry rumor mill more often than the other mags, from what I remember. Did they improve over time? After I stopped reading VG&CE (when Andy Eddy left), I didn't subscribe to or read another gaming mag seriously until my GameStop subscription came.

Whenever I have had discussions with fellow gamers (from my generation) who grew up with Nintendo Power, EGM, GamePro, etc. VG&CE is only present in the conversation if I'm talking about them. I realize the magazine was relatively short-lived by comparison to the other 3 aforementioned powerhouse publications, but when I was a kid, I always felt like VG&CE was the only mag that wasn't trying to pander to me as a kid, but approached reviews in an intelligent and thoughtful manner, as well as having interesting articles about various topics related to gaming and the industry. At the time I discovered gaming mags at the local grocery store, I was 13 and wasn't reading them from the perspective of the 8-year old starry eyed kid drooling over the latest NES game screenshots. By that time I had years of gaming under my belt and appreciated the more intelligent, thoughtful tone of VG&CE over the more sensationalist content of the bigger mags. I will say that once Andy Eddy began transitioning out of the Editor in Chief position, the VG&CE began to slip in quality a lot and became basically "GamePro lite" in its approach. That's when I let my subscription lapse and sadly, not too long after that, the mag was totally unrecognizable as the intelligently written publication I once knew. Anyone else have some love for the Andy Eddy years?

Hello all, first post here I haven't read GamePro in years, so I'm not overly sad to see it go. I never cared that much for it because I always thought the mag was far too "exuberant" in much of their coverage, and they used far too many exclamation points for my taste. Perhaps I didn't read enough of their issues, but I always felt like the writers had a tendency to use more hyperbole and less factual analysis. I also really remember their goofy (yet strangely affecting) rating system: I think I still have a handful of GamePro mags in my collection at home along with various other random gaming mags from back in Junior High and High School. I let my subscription to the one mag I actually read regularly (VG&CE) lapse a few months after Andy Eddy left as Editor in Chief because that mag started to look and read a lot like GamePro, which disappointed me. Still, GamePro did provide a lot of years of gaming coverage, even if the mag (during it's peak, anyway), was not to my taste. From that perspective, it's hard to see it die, but then the magazine business in general is dying off. That's kind of a sad thing as well, because I much prefer to hold the product in my hand. I say this as an IT guy who just got an iPad (with the Retina display) and has been geeking out on free digital comic books. But my comics collection at home (though small) is great in paper form, and I even still get all my IT-related magazines in print format at the office because I prefer to thumb through the articles that way. Granted, I read a TON of stuff online, and read a lot of gaming blogs that are more geared to my somewhat retro-leaning tastes (Nintendo Legend, 8-bit City, etc), but the fact that in-print publications are starting to "go the way of the buffalo" is an unfortunate side-effect of the digital age.