TheRedEye

I can no longer find it anywhere. I really wish they had just printed a small amount of these for collectors or at least made a proper PDF file for it.

Somewhere I actually do have one, but it's not the American edition...I think it was EGM Brasil? Kind of a neat curiosity to have. I think it's a printer proof, but I do believe it was released.

I don't think this is up to RM quality standards, and I don't have my raw scans anymore, but here's the issue I scanned:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgwo6kf8hra36dd/top%20score%20nov_dec%201987.zip?dl=0

There might be a sixth issue too, I'll update if I can confirm.

I suggest an "EGM Specials" category to put all of the annuals, EGM 3D, Guide to Summer Games, Guide to Sega Saturn Games, etc. etc. etc., I think the Top Score fits in there.

There's nothing controversial about preserving the GamePro discs, I just haven't been able to recreate a QuarkXpress environment from the 90s (the files absolutely will not read on modern setups), and I have about 50 other game preservation related projects that take precedence over figuring this out right now. I also don't HAVE them, I have access to them.

I have and scanned #5 for that website, but I guess he never put it up.

The 1989 Top Score should be considered its own Sendai publication that only lasted one issue. Fun fact: there are two variations, one of the print runs duplicated four of the pages.

I subscribed to the EGM digital version for a few years before I let my subscription lapse. It was on a proprietary PC reader, and the scans were generally horrible. Of course that was probrably 8-10 years ago. Bandwidth and high res devices are more prevalent now. I know with EGM the original archive was supposedly taken away in the era of Ziff Davis closure by Jeremy Parish? I could be wrong. And donated to eigther the strong museum of play of a video game museum. It's quite possible that many of these magazines don't even have the original archives or they are long gone to some employees house. That's why to me this site is so important.

I'm pretty sure Jeremy took home the physical issues of EGM (there was only one of each of the Sendai years, and it was missing two issues), but I don't know what he did with them. I'd guess he still has them.

I think you're conflating stories: while working at 1UP, I/we sent the Computer Gaming World archive to The Strong.

I think I posted here my mental inventory of where all the archives are for old magazines ended up but, really, the short version is they don't exist.

Awesome. Does that mean the Redeye is going to open the gates on some of his awesome collection? I sure hope so!

My gates have always been open to come to my house and scan away, but I don't have time to scan magazines myself. This only got scanned because of the holiday break.

Actually I originally scanned the undistributed April, 1999 issue of GameFan (only one verified copy in the world right now) without realizing RM had some kinda agreement with Halverson, so I'm posting it somewhere else I guess.

what is this ?

This is the (stupidly rare) precursor to Electronic Gaming Monthly. It has the same staff, same columns, same everything. It ran for four issues before they reset and launched EGM.

It's historically important for being the first multiplatform console magazine in United States to launch after the video game crash wiped them all out in the mid-80s (only Fun Club News predates it, and that's Nintendo marketing, not really a magazine).

I don't think distribution was very high, I only know of about three copies of this issue existing. I'm missing issue 2, but thankfully Kevin Gifford's copy is at The Strong, so it's accessible.

Is including scans from outside of Retromags within the scope of this? Something akin to a ROM manager for game magazines?

What happens to the GameFan scans if they go out of business again?

There were four. #4 is scanned here, #s 1 and 2 are at the Strong Musem of Play's library in Rochester, and I've got a #3, so at the very least they're all "safe." Stupid rare though.

This is really interesting, because my uncirculated file copy of EGM #1 taken from the magazine's archives did not have that stuff inside!

I've done the hair dryer thing to EGMs with basically perfect results, but it takes a loooong time and your hands get really hot (maybe you can use gloves?).

Like arsg said, the hardest part is not pulling the pages out until they're ready. Just pinch them gently and baaaarely pull on them while running the hair dryer up and down the glue, eventually they'll come off by themselves.

The other part to look out for is that the glue is going to pool up as you get toward the end, but if you get good at it the glue will just stay on the cover part.

Videogaming Illustrated Issue 6 (June 1983) - missing back cover/inner back cover

Nintendo Power Issue 90 (Nov 1996) - missing poster

I'm assuming the page scans on Digital Press for VG Illustrated aren't up to Retromags spec?

I don't have that issue but I have the one after, it has the same back cover but a different inside-back. Inside-back is an ad for River Raid, wouldn't be surprised if it's in other mags of the time.

I have a loose Wave Race 64 poster in my cop of NP #90, I'm assuming it's from that issue. I can scan that.

Thanks for the info. So it looks like the 8 issues I mentioned make up the complete pre-1990 list of GP Nintendo Guides. I definitely haven't seen any others, and I've been watching Ebay auctions on a regular basis for the last year.

Here's what I believe is the full list of issues, along with what's on the cover of each:

1	1-1	               	1988	yellow issue
2	1-1	               	1988	flying guy
3	1-2	               	1988	knight/dragon
4	1-3                   		Friday the 13th
5	2-3	Jun/Jul     	1989	bionic commando
6	2-4	Aug/Sep  	1989	sports

I believe this is accurate, yes, although my dates are a little different . I can basically guarantee at this point that there is nothing between 1-3 and 2-3, I would have seen them by now.

For sanity's sake I always consider that yellow 1-1 as its own one-off, and the "flying guy" 1-1 as the first actual issue of the Game Player's Nintendo Guide series.

There are at least two variant covers EACH for the first four, FYI.

Sorry for the weird formatting but these are the actual dates for the first few issues, where they exist (either on the cover or on the inside).

1988 1-1

1988 1-2

1988 1-3

1989-08 2-3

1989-10 2-4

1989 2-5

1989 2-6

1990 3-1

1990 3-2

1990 3-3

1990 3-4

1990-10 3-5

1990-11 3-6

1990-12 3-7

1991-01 4-1

1991-02 4-2

I just kinda felt like editing this one, if it doesn't fit your specs I'll upload the raw scan:

http://i.imgur.com/sQtKq0Z.jpg

Thanks, TheRedEye, for scanning the missing material, and to you too, E-Day, for putting it together!

I've noticed a couple of variant covers with early issues of GP. I'm guessing market testing. But like the numbering, I suppose this is a discussion for another topic.

My understanding is that they de-emphasized the word "Nintendo" on the covers because Nintendo threatened to sue.

Cool. I included both covers of Game Player's NG #2 (or at least what the database calls #2, I'd call it #3, but I'll save that for another topic). Don't know how you handle that, but it would be cool to see both covers in the same file.

Don't have that issue of EG. I don't go too crazy trying to get the pre-crash mags that are already scanned, and that one's on Digital Press:

http://www.digitpress.com/library/magazines/electronic_games/electronic_games.htm

...well, hopefully the answer was yes:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/em9qmbaddpnnaxu/RetromagsMissingPages.zip

So the first 1/2 million were labeled Free Sample and the rest Free Poster? For me, "Free Sample Copy" seems to better state that, hey, this is a freebie, and you'll have to pay for future issues. But my wife says I'm wired differently, so what do I know?

I don't know how many copies went out with Free Sample, I just know why they changed it. This is coming from editor Gail Tilden (who has a hawk-like memory, I'd trust her).

I didn't miss this anywhere, right? We don't yet have a list of missing covers?

I'm sure I have a lot of covers the database is missing, but it would be great to have a checklist to reference. Also I really wanna win those Sega Challenge newsletters sooooo bad.

If I scan all these can someone else do the editing?

It's just the first print run, ALL of the free first issues were sent to Fun Club members. They changed the cover quickly because they didn't want people to assume that Nintendo Power, like the Fun Club News, was free. This was a new, premium magazine, and only that first issue was ever going to be free.

That guy PM'd me the same stuff too.

I don't know why you're being critical of the sound in the video (?!) but they did some audio recordings of me turning pages separate from the talking, I guess they mixed them together.

And I have scanned stuff for the site before, yes, thanks for asking.

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