E-Day

I am sorry I am not able to help at the moment. We are currently trying to sell our house, and my computer is put away in storage. I have using the wife's laptop (although the Lenovo Yoga is pretty awesome). I can probably help with the spreadsheet thing though. Message me and we can chat about it.

Whoever they contract out the customer service duties to doesn't seem to have much faith in them. And you can't really blame them. Apart from this site, I haven't heard anyone mention EGM anywhere else after they came back. You can't find them on the magazine racks anymore, so I have to wonder how many people actually know they are still around.

The article at The Verge tonight (http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/24/4363732/xbox-one-spot-checks-used-game-authentication) clarifies it, but it's still a weird arrangement. Good thing I am not interested in the Xbone for the games.

If Game Informer switches to digital only, I will be cancelling my subscription that day. I have no interest in current magazines being digital. I look at a screen enough as it is.

I am subscribed to EGM, Game Informer and Nintendo Force. I was subscribed to Nintendo Power when it closed. Thankfully Nintendo Force came along to take its place. If there were more gaming magazines, I would subscribe to them (no interest in the Xbox magazine)

It was clarified today or late yesterday that games installed on your Xbone can be played by other accounts on the console. So your spouse or kid can play the game you bought with their accounts. They will definitely need to clarify things for this whole pass thing when lending games to friends, but it's not a concern of mine. I am interested in the Kinect-enabled stuff the Xbone can do.

The cutoff for scans currently varies depending on whether the magazine is still in production, and when the magazine ended. I don't remember what the dates are. But it never hurts to have copies of post-2000 issues in case the cutoff date moves.

GamePro had some now and then, but it wasn't consistent apart from a few months in 1993.

You don't have to get newsgroup service through your ISP. You can go through any number of newsgroup places, like UsenetServer, Newshosting, Newsdemon, and others, such as those listed here. A lot of them offer $3 trials.

I do, but that applies to current magazines only. If it's a current magazine, I don't want to read it on a screen; I want paper.

Yes we do, because that is really the only way to read them. If publishers reprinted and sold those old issues, we wouldn't be doing this.

But the number of ads in the current magazines are nowhere near enough to sustain them (save for maybe Game Informer). A healthy magazine will have almost 50% ads, something not even Game Informer can do. Even if a magazine has a 3 million subscription base, companies know that tens of millions will see their ads if they are online instead. As it stands, I am not sure that the readership and the number of ads are enough to sustain a print magazine alone, where it is printed in a handful of places and has distributed over more than 24 million square kilometers, without supplemented income from web ads and digital subscriptions which eliminate the printing and distribution costs. I don't like it, but I can see the reasoning behind it.

I read magazines precisely because I do not want to be staring at a screen all the time. Magazines get me away from screens. As magazines go digital only, I will stop reading them. It seems like everything we do these days needs to involve staring at a bright, colourful screen. I stare at screens enough as it is without owning a tablet yet, and I don't even read digital magazines. While it is inevitable, I will not be participating. The reason the UK magazine market is strong is because they are a small country. Their circulation numbers are tiny compared to what it takes to have a successful magazine in North America, but they are also about the size of California. It's a lot cheaper to ship magazines in an area that size than it is to cover all of the US and Canada. They might be able to get around this by contracting out with printers in various regions to print and distribute their magazines within a smaller area, but the number of agreements you would need to keep the areas a reasonable size would probably get expensive.

At one point I had every Master System game released in the US and Canada (we got games the US didn't and vice versa) except for James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing, and Golden Axe Warrior was one of them. I am not sure if I still have it, as I sold a lot of my retro games three years ago because I knew I would never play them all, and because they were taking up too much space in our small house. I wonder if I still have it...

I was never a fan of Francis Mao's artwork in GamePro. So it could be his fault. That just seemed to be his style

GamePro gave lots of bad reviews. I never noticed anything sugar coated. I always like GamePro, because even though it skewed younger, I liked the fact that it didn't take everything so seriously and was fun to read. I always felt that magazines about video games should be as fun as the games itself. While I never read VG&CE back in the day, I've read several of the scans, and it was a very good magazine.

I understand the impatience, as I am getting a bit impatient myself as I now have time to contribute more than scans to the site. I've contacted Phillyman about the site and about you guys getting impatient waiting to hear something from him. All I can do at the moment is wait for him to reply

CBRs are easy. They are just JPG files kept in a RAR archive (and CBZ is in a ZIP archive). No compression.

You are obviously unaware of the amount of time it takes to restore 1,100 magazines; not just linking to them, but uploading them somewhere. Any issues with slowness will have to be taken up with Phillyman. But remember that this site is a hobby. Real life comes first, and right now real life is first on his agenda. I'm waiting for TheRedEye to provide me with the replacement pages I need for the scans I am doing.

I thought unsold issues were sent back to the magazine.