Jump to content

VGBounceHouse

Team Member
  • Posts

    226
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    17

Posts posted by VGBounceHouse

  1. I now have a few of these on hand. I also picked up some Computer Games Strategy Plus and will update that thread to hopefully sort everything out.

    These are quick scans with no editing but they do confirm dates and volume/issue numbers:

    Volume 2, Number 1, August/September 1983 (as Video Games Player)

    folder.jpg

    Volume 2, Number 2, October/November 1983 (as Video Games Player)

    folder.jpg

    Volume 3, Number 1, April 1984 (as Computer Games)

    folder.jpg

    I will continue to keep a look out for issues from this run.

    • Like 1
  2. I had hoped to upload Electronic Games December 1982 tonight but it looks like I have to scan the whole thing again. My childhood copy had a major tear in the back cover (and I had filled out the survey which would take a lot of editing) so I had sought out another copy. I managed to get two, and between all three copies I had everything covered but... testing images I had already edited against the newest near-mint copy I got from eBay revealed mine had significantly more yellowing. While the 136 pages I had already prepared look great and are easily readable, there is far more texture in the pages compared to a few sample scans I took from the more recent acquisition. So it looks like I'll be busy tonight and tomorrow to ensure I have it ready before the end of the weekend.

    I'm gonna take a short break here, I have a few of magazines that aren't in the database that I'd like to scan the covers from and create topics to discuss how to proceed.

  3. I can finally announce my project, Videogame Pavilion. Today is the soft launch which means it is fairly feature-incomplete. However you can get a sense of my take on videogame magazine preservation:

    http://vgpavilion.com

    I will be "web-izing" all the magazines I archive and cross-linking all of the products in the hopes of providing another way for fans to enjoy the history of gaming while also serving the needs of researchers and historians. You'll find pages dedicated to photos and screenshots and other media strewn throughout the issues with an emphasis on interactivity including mobile swipe and pinch-zoom.

    The launch features two issues:

    Vidiot, Issue 1, Sep/Oct 1982: http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1982/09/vidiot/

    Video Games, Issue 3, December 1982: http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1982/12/vg/

    I'll be back on scanning and editing this week. Next up is Electronic Games from December 1982. I hope to have the archive prepared for RetroMags by the end of the weekend at the latest. Leaving a note here for myself to remember to include the RetroMags site image in the archive.

    • Like 4
  4. EGM actually had their own app, I still have a bunch of issues downloaded from it on my original iPad (which serves mostly as a clock) which I'd have to grab to see whether those issues were the same as print ones of the same years. If things are different or they're not available in print I guess I have a lot of screen-capping to do at some point lmao

  5. I do it your modern-method way, but because of "glue barriers" I take my time. You notice how once you've broken the inside away from the cover there often appear to be sections/groups of pages, and at those break points the glue sometimes bled onto the page? You can't always get a clean tear at that point, so I bend the spine back and forth, lay it flat under a board with a brick on top for a while, then come back to it.

    I guess an hour might be on the high end like that December 1994 EGM since it was over 400 pages, but since I'm going for as-close-to-perfect facing-page ad spread recreations I suppose I'm being over-cautious lol

    • Like 1
  6. Ya I was the one who sent that issue 86 :). I have it on my watch list on eBay so when it comes up I'll get it. You can ask VG Bounce House as well he seems to have a lot of the EGM's and would probrably scan those 4 pages for you.

    Just wanted to make sure. I have a good copy now of 32 so I'll do that. Just didn't want to do extra work if you had most of done 5 years ago or something.

    I have both 32 and 86 in good condition. I have time to scan but not edit so let me know what's needed and I'll link the raw scans for download.

  7. Excellent!

    I've talked to the seller and the only issue that won't be up for auction is issue 01, which VGBounceHouse has. If he scans that, then we should have all the issues in a couple weeks.

    I went ahead and did a temporary scan of the cover of Issue 1 and uploaded it to the gallery. As for doing the full scan so this magazine can be marked completely archived I can't make any promises. I'm doing a soft launch of my site this week and hoped to finish up a few more of the December 1982 magazines which aren't here since they're already scanned and just need editing. I will try to get it done in the next few weeks.

    Good luck with the auction. I won't go after any of the issues you've marked as missing. I'm not even sure if I'll go for any of them since many have significant cover damage and they are the disc issues but don't come with the discs. At some point I hope we can get all issues of both versions (disc and disc-less) for the cover variations (and because I am trying to archive discs as well).

    • Like 1
  8. I have that issue scanned as well and just finished editing, but page 83 is all messed up. I was wondering if you'd be willing to share your scan of page 83 with me. It's an ad page for Imperium Galactica II.

    It's my own fault. I threw the issue away after I scanned it believing I had a good scan, but I should've known better, that I can't catch everything after only one look. Some ad pages look messed up anyways, y'know?

    Hey marktrade, sorry for the late response I've been so busy trying to get my site ready I've missed checking the forums. I see you were able to get the page from another issue but just in case you still wanted it here's my scan of Page 83, it's a 600dpi TIFF that I RARed:

    http://vgpavilion.com/083.rar

    Chris

    • Like 1
  9. Ok, I've gone through all of the pre-1990 issues I've marked in my first-pass database and marked them as Acquired (or Editing for a few I've mentioned in this thread). This covers Computer Gaming World (only one issue), Electronic Fun, Electronic Games, Joystik, Video Games, Video Games & Computer Entertainment and Videogaming Illustrated.

    • Like 3
  10. Howdy!

    After taking care of some auctions I figured I'd check the forums and what do I find but this thread. Hope this is something fun?

    My memories may be a bit different than others given when I got into gaming: 1974. That was the year I was given the original set of Dungeons & Dragons booklets (along with Chivalry and a mess of miniatures), and the year I discovered videogames. The local dug store had brought in an original model Pong and after tugging on Mom's pants she gave me a quarter. There was already a man playing so I watched a bit before taking him on and getting trounced, which if I remember correctly was mere seconds. Eight year-old me, already enamored by television, was hooked.

    Other than the Sears catalog we didn't get a whole lot of information in print back then. After getting Atari's home Pong, which as Dad predicted didn't hold interest for long, I began to search out coin-ops as various stores and movie theaters started getting them. Also on the horizon was the VHS recorder which I hoped to talk Dad into getting. There was finally a confluence as I picked up a copy of VIDEO magazine in 1977 and while waiting to see a movie (and for the one coin-op in the lobby to free up) I started reading the issue and came across an article about videogames. I can't remember the issue but I believe while coin-ops were the focus there was also some information about the Atari VCS.

    The next month I sneaked a copy of Video Review into Mom's grocery cart having already exhausted my allowance with the new issue of VIDEO and a few comic books. I now had news on videogames from two sources, plus the few stores around town with coin-ops, plus any trip to the mall and head down to Sears and the videogame section which would grow to an eighth of the floor in the coming years.

    I never thought about a subscription, but every month grabbed those two magazines and their meager videogame coverage. Sometimes if would be expanded around CES, but otherwise it was just a few pages with news and the occasional review.

    The first arcade to open in Rockville was around this time but I don't know the year since I only discovered it when someone at the local RPG store, Dream Wizards, was talking about it. I wasn't allowed to go often, but it was a great place and here I discovered Billboard magazine. While it wasn't available for sale the manager often had an issue out and I asked to read it while I was there. Sales figures, news and distributor information, Billboard showed me the "inside" part of the industry as best I could understand back then. I'd often strike up a conversation about success of a particular coin-op relative to its position on the sales charts in Billboard and I'd hear stories about repairs or kids so good they monopolized machines. He probably just thought I was strange asking about such things.

    I was so excited to hear about Electronic Games in the pages of VIDEO. The same trio that wrote most of the articles was in control of the new magazine which was to debut in 1981. At this point the VCS had been on the market for four years, and the Intellivision for one, so many of Mattel's best attack ads were in the past by the time the gaming press really kicked off in 1982. Coverage continued in VIDEO and Video Review so now I had to stagger my allowance to get everything. And then 1982 happened.

    Electronic Games goes monthly, Video Games arrives, Videogaming Illustrated makes it's debut, and Electronic Fun with Computers & Games arrives before the end of the year. By this time I had an Intellivision, trips to the arcade, computer games on the school's TRS-80 Model I/Level II, and a decent amount of print coverage. Modern videogaming had arrived years before, but the breadth of the consumer experience was only now being served.

    ...to be continued.

    Chris

    • Like 2
  11. That's my concern RetroDefense, the possibility that someone will back off getting their own copy and contributing their own scan while I sit on a mountain of issues. I have most of my collection in a database, including markers for condition and ownership of duplicates. I'm also trying to deal with the multiple covers situation and use of embedded shipping labels that obscure covers that otherwise show more information when they were bought at the newsstand.

    I am in the process of double-checking my collection as I board, bag and box all of it and will be putting up an index at my site at some point next week or early the following week. When I have a link I'll put it up and you guys can tell me if I should go through Retromags and mark things as acquired based on that.

    • Like 2
  12. My EGM 65 is in really good shape but I wouldn't call it mint. I plan to get to it next weekend but in case you can see some problems here are two samples which I added to the temporary page at http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1994/12/egm/

    010-w_tn.jpg

    002b-002c-w_tn.jpg

    As for going through the database marktrade, I'd love to do that, but with over 600 mags on hand and no clear strategy of the order I'm gonna tackle things, do I help or hurt others by doing that?

  13. As for the Incite Video Gaming issues, I already have all of them (except for issue 0, which someone else is selling for a very high price) and already made a thread about it in Magazine Talk. It's Incite PC Gaming that I don't think anyone has.

    That's odd since only the PC Gaming version is in the database here. I have over half of those. As for the issue 0's I saw that listing as well. $120 is pretty steep for something that few people would have ever seen thus contributing little to the history of videogames, though if it were $60 I would snap it up lol

  14. The last time I posted here and announced that I would be bidding on something it didn't seem to help. Lots of people who visit Retromags still seem very interested in having a physical magazine. Plenty of people here with magazines want them to be scanned but don't want the bindings cut. The physical magazine is their priority.

    So frankly I'm not sure that's possible! If I come here to announce that I'm bidding on an auction that just means more people are likely to bid on it to see if they can get it themselves, especially if it starts low, like most billmarioman auctions do.

    As I've said in all of my threads I de-bind everything. I may keep the magazine in a protective cover afterward but that's mostly for reference/future change in technology. Even cutting risks building facing pages, particularly ads, which is why I do the multiple-cracks-on-spine, slow twist method and then peel off each page.

    If we wanted to have a thread about upcoming auctions we thought there might be contention, where should the thread go, in this forum?

    For example I'm hoping to grab the Incite lot from billmarioman tomorrow, and a bunch of singles from journeyescape early next week.

  15. Thank you for going through the trouble. If you had caught me at another time I might have been able to help but billmarioman had to choose this month to liquidate his magazine collection and I already spent too much money on those. Good luck with everything.

    Ah, so you're the one I've been warring with on eBay!

  16. Still looking for #10. And issue 68 and 69. If you want an idea what is upcoming check the EGM database. All the issues marked acquired should be on deck. I'm going roughly in release order for the ones I have.

    I own both 68 and 69, they weren't high on my scan list (trying to do all the first console war mags pre-1985 first) but I can always bump them up.

  17. Thanks so much E-Day, while I'm busy on some site stuff this week I should have a couple new issues of various mags (along with some new covers) next week. Look forward to seeing the issue in New Releases!

×
×
  • Create New...
Affiliate Disclaimer: Retromags may earn a commission on purchases made through our affiliate links on Retromags.com and social media channels. As an Amazon & Ebay Associate, Retromags earns from qualifying purchases. Thank you for your continued support!