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E-Day

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  1. Shipping is local pickup only on your auction...
  2. This past October Retromags was contacted on Facebook by Ryan Burger. He found our archive and liked what we were doing. He said he was the publisher of the new Old School Gamer Magazine. I was interested in knowing more, but got suspicious when he asked if Phillyman or I were available to talk on the phone. The last time I spoke to someone on the phone relating to this site, it was a crackpot member who tracked down my phone number online and kept calling me because he didn't like how we were doing things and thought that we should make everything available regardless of legal threats. This is when I was running the site for a couple of years. So I kept the conversation on Facebook and checked out his site (http://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com). I read the first issue on the site (the first two issues are available to download (https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/magazine/), and it was pretty good. I signed up for the free digital sub and print issue. That came last week, and it was even better reading it on paper. Good quality paper, I might add There is the odd typo here and there, but you kind of forget about it because there is a lot of information to take in. Interviews seem to be printed verbatim, because they often read awkwardly, as though they haven't been edited for flow. Such as this quote from the owner of a large game store in Vegas: This isn't a bad thing, it's just unusual to see. If you are really into the old arcade and pinball games, then this is something to check out since it deals a lot with those two topics, including different arcades around the country, as well as game stores and museums/conventions. It does cover everything though, including consoles and console games, which is where my interest lies. Walter Day (founder of Twin Galaxies), and Billy Mitchell are on the advisory board of the magazine; Walter also writes a column in the magazine, as does Brett Weiss, the writer of those gaming books I have on my Amazon wishlist. Give it a look. It's not the perfect professional magazine you will get from a large publisher like Future (which are not perfect themselves), but that's not a bad thing. My favourite article thus far was the profile on Ed Averett, the programmer for KC Munchkin, the game that got Odyssey2 maker Magnavox sued by Atari. If you like getting game magazines in the mail still you can add this one to Nintendo Force and Retro (when it starts printing again). This is especially true if arcade games and pinball are your thing, because a lot of content focuses on those two topics. You can subscribe on Patreon and pay when an issue is printed, or live on the wild side and pay for a full year up front and save $6. Full disclosure: Ryan is comping me a subscription, though that hasn't affected my opinion of the magazine. The fact that I enjoy several of the articles in the issues and that this is a real print magazine and not some online "magazine" is what makes me want to get some eyeballs on it.
  3. Finally scanned this issue last night. Will start the editing process this week.
  4. Worst in the world among developed nations for sure, I would think.
  5. I remember trying Aimp. Might have to try it again...
  6. I was hoping to nice to something sleeker and more modern, but it seems unlikely that I'll find one program for my needs.
  7. E-Day

    Hello everyone

    A fellow web designer . Welcome!
  8. Going through some of my music files tonight, I came across some video game music that is not in the sual mp3 or FLAC format. They are the original file formats from the ROMS, such as SPC (Super NES), VGZ (Sega Genesis/SMS/GG), miniusf(N64), mini2sf (GBA/DS), psf (PSone), and so on. I used to play all of these and then some with Winamp and the Chipamp plugin bundle. But after 20 years of using Winamp exclusively for listening to my music on the computer, I want to use something else. But I am having trouble finding a new play to play these files. Does anyone on here have a program that they use for these formats that they like?
  9. I think of two for different reasons. The first is Sonic & Knuckles because I got that game for Christmas in 1994, and even though I played it a lot from renting it, I still played that game a ton after getting it. The second game is Ristar for the Genesis, and that's because of the music for the fifth level, Planet Freon. The music always had a wintery, Christmas feel to me. Every time I hear that music, it makes me think of Christmas. Incidentally, I bought that game in August 1996 on a weekend trip to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, where I bought it for $19.99 at the local Meijer. If I had thought ahead I should have purchased two copies, and I should have never sold the one I did buy.
  10. I only have experience with my HP Laser All-in-One, and it's not a duplex scanner. It is decent though; just decent.
  11. Nintendo Power Issue 156 May 2002 and Nintendo Power Issue 157 June 2002 are now available (scans #279 and 280). Up next: Nintendo Power Issue 159 August 2002 (scan #281).
  12. Retromags Presents! Nintendo Power Issue 157 June 2002 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Facebook user Kanghyuk Blair Naujok for donating this issue!
  13. 1,581 downloads

    Nintendo Power Issue 157 (June 2002) Issue donated by Benjamin Alldritt.
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