jonphilmitch

@Vox Never mind. I missed your attached photo of Pocket Gamer. Looks like one of your grails is coming soon!

12 hours ago, Vox said:

The other is this pocket gamer magazine.

Well you're in luck. I just sent Pocket Gamer #1 To @MigJmz. So based on his schedule, we'll see that before long. However if you're the same person that mentioned this before, I think you're looking for issue #2, which I didn't have. I saw one on ebay last year, but I was unemployed at the time and could not justify trying to bid on it. I still have a saved ebay search.

@MigJmz What is your scanning backlog like these days? I have some stuff to donate and I know Phillyman is already under water. And E-Day being in Canada is too expensive to ship to.

I've been pretty impressed to see all those guide posted. So many pages! I know they are a lot of work.

@mvangord Well I bought the issue that popped up on eBay so I'll see what it's all about before sending it off to E-Day.

A copy is back up. Paging @kitsunebi as well. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Retro-Gaming-Magazine-Lot/303520527497?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

I got the Pocket Games issues today. I'm going to hang onto them until i can find issues 18 and 19, then send them all to @E-Day or @Phillyman and the run will be complete. Thanks for your contribution. 

@Silvercube yeah if you can just post a photo of that psp issue, i'd like @E-Day to see if it looks like it will still feed through a scanner. Thanks!

6 hours ago, Silvercube said:

Hi everyone, I have decided to begin listing the video game magazines on eBay. Up currently is play magazine and Pocket Games Magazines lot:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254236302132
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254236313426

 

@Silvercube I just messaged you through ebay.

1 hour ago, gingerbeardman said:

Is that when scanning will start/the first scan will be uploaded? (don't want to miss any of these)

If you are on twitter, just follow @retromags. An (automatic?) tweet goes out every time a new magazine is posted. 

33 minutes ago, E-Day said:

which I am sure exist somewhere

They probably exist in some sort of archive, but big companies seem terrible at keeping track of this stuff. Frank Cifaldi told me that all of the images in the bonus features of Mega Man Legacy Collection were scanned out of a book about Mega Man. I would have thought that Capcom could have provided an archive, but nope!

3 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

To be honest, what we really need is a custom program for the contents field so that different categories can be filled out and searched for separately.  For example, rather than a single contents field that lists everything, the contents entry page should resemble a database entry page with a list of different fields to be filled out separately, such as a "previews" field, "review" field, etc.  Then people could click a drop-down menu in the search bar for"reviews", type "Mega Man 3" into the search box, and only mags with reviews of that game would show up.  That's just one of a long list of things I wish we could do around here to make the site more functional, but alas such usability doesn't come easy or free.

YES this would be amazing. Hopefully one day the functionality will be there. 

54 minutes ago, kitsunebi77 said:

BTW, I'm speaking strictly about two-page joins. 

OOOOH! that makes total sense in regards to 2-page ads. Sorry I was thinking you were referring to all ads in general. Again, I appreciate the feedback. 

3 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

for example, all of the mags that have been uploaded lately by E-Day would be useless for pulling advertisements from, since Phillyman debinds his mags with a paper cutter that removes part of the page in the process. 

You're saying that you'd rather have no ad than an ad with a very small portion of the page missing from de-binding? It must be preferable to have something, right?

@kitsunebi77 Thanks. This is good feedback. Personally, I tend to come here looking for a magazine that has coverage for a specific game. So listing out all the games would be helpful for me and maybe others like me. A agree about using standard "reviews", "previews" headings as well as the descriptions for articles like interviews. I actually didn't know about the advertisement section in the gallery, and by the look of it, neither do a lot of other people. Is it ok to pull ads out of the existing uploaded mags to put in the ad gallery? Not sure what the etiquette is. Thanks again.

Hey all,

I have donated the few magazines I had, and I don't really have the time to edit pages. But what I can do is fill out the "content" fields where they are missing. I just want to get some feedback on one's I've done. Mainly I want to know the following.

1. Should there be a "systems covered" line? I see this in some entries. Is it helpful? 
2. Is it better the have the system listed after every game like i did?
3. Should the actual names of the sections of the magazines be used? ex. "Pocket Advance Previews" or just "Previews"?
4. When using a headline for a feature (should a brief description be given? ex. Prepare to N-Gage (N-Gage Preview)
5. It's a good idea to list the ads, right?
6. What are opinions on including the review scores in this content section? Is it too cluttered with the system name also there?

Those are my questions to start. Let me know what you think.

@kitsunebi77A little while back on my way to work I saw a bunch of PC mags (both PC gamer and hardware mags) all tied up out by the garbage on the street. I would have loved to dig in and see what was there, but in NYC the fear of bedbugs is very real. It was a real shame. 

Are the donations still going for this?

15 hours ago, mvangord said:

I already posted about this in the other thread but let's just make it official here.

Published by Imagine, based in the US, appears to be a bimonthly/quarterly, did not last long.  Completely separate from Pocket Games.

You should save an ebay alert for this if you haven't already. 

14 hours ago, mvangord said:

I definitely had that issue of Pocket Games, I only really used it for the Crash Bandicoot GBA walkthrough in it.  Keep doing God's work, these are some seriously great finds

My goal is to find all 20 issues of Pocket Games and get them to Phillman for scanning. I got 1-14 from a guy on ebay after he gave me a decent deal. Those are what Phillman is scanning now. I'm keeping an eye out for the remaining issues. I was pissed to miss one of them recently. They don't pop up often. 

On 2/10/2019 at 7:39 PM, mvangord said:

I had this one magazine, probably the first video game magazine I ever owned, that was some sort of handheld game magazine (it may be the elusive issue 2 of Pocket Games but I'm not sure since I had issue 6 or so and they were nothing alike).  The cover story was on some obscure GBC game called Xtreme Sportz (yes, really) and it had a ton of mostly badly translated information about Pokemon Gold & Silver that was occasionally flat out incorrect (saying Entei was a Fighting type).  It gave some pretty scathing reviews to a couple of games too, the two terrible Austin Powers games and Star Wars Yoda Stories I think?  Then they had a post-mortem on the Neo Geo Pocket Color with a drawing of Mario taking a piss on the system's grave.  If only I could dig it out of my basement and the cramped binders I shoved so many of my game mags into...

I donated my Pocket Games to Phillyman, who is now in the process of scanning them. However I do have a scan of the cover of issue 2 and I don't see a reference to "Xtreme Sportz". I guess we'll know for sure once it gets fully scanned, edited, and uploaded.

yo those Japanese magazines look amaaaaaazing. 

I have a 9 month old who of course I want to get into video games someday. I was looking forward to getting him a sub to Little Player when he turned 2 or so. I'm really hoping SOMEONE has a print magazine for little kids again.