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Wow wish I had seen that.

I got it off the newstand.. I didn't subscribe to EGM until maybe a year later. But ok man I'll go ahead and scan, shove it on a public dropbox and put it here for the experts to package. I know I'm a little slow/leisurely, but it'll get done. I also have a number of early EGM's that don't appear to be scanned yet. EGM was previously known as "Electronic Game Player" one of which I scanned for retromags a number of years ago. I don't know how many issues of that there are but it wasnt many.. if you look at the scan, one of the subscription page has pictures of supposedly past issues.. but who knows. . But also yeah as someone mentioned I think subscribers to EGM early on maybe got some kind of flyer or newsletter of Quarterman also.

Hi all.. been a while since I logged on. I've scanned a few magazines on this site including EGP (pre-EGM mag), EGM with Fabio on the cover and some other one I think (1988 Buyers Guide?) I recently visited my mom's house and in my room picked up a number of mags I had forgotten about and in it included the premiere issue of Gamepro, and EGM #1 as well. My EGM #1 still has the inserts intact which are a Magmax poster and the "Electronic Gaming Monthly Tip Booklet". Were these inserts ever scanned? While I doubt I could scan the poster, the tip booklet is doable and could be done without having to remove it from the magazine. That said, it's just a bunch of standard codes for each game (mostly NES).. e.g. the Mike Tyson "Another World circuit" codes etc. Not sure if it's even all that interesting. Anyway.. lemme know. http://i.imgur.com/BXZGtp8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YQiTdnZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Kxx1Ir1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/x3mkub1.jpg

I think newsgroups is a great idea.. and a way I've been thinking it should have been done for a long while. You just upload everything at once and bam, they're there for a good 3 years on most good providers. And the great thing is, it doesn't have to preclude other means of distribution. If an alternative means (such as the web-based mediafire suggestion above) etc. is found to be viable, it can live side by side. Again, the upload to Usenet is a one shot deal, and it's there for a good long time with zero maintenance. Other methods of web access can come up and be used with no problems. If anything it's an excellent win-win with no drawbacks whatsoever.

Awesome man.. and thanks for scanning. It's good to see the EG's (or heck, any of the early 80's gaming scene mags) start to make a show. My favorites are the ones once they start hitting 1982 and up until the crash era. Heck, I might just start scanning some myself..

Digital Press forums at http://www.digitpress.com/forum and of course, Atariage at http://www.atariage.com

I got them.. but unfortunately they're all at my Mom's house which is thousands upon thousands of miles away. And even if I was there I'd have to search through my piles of junk to find a box with them in it. But yeah.. I bought all the sendai spin off's back in the day.

Born in 1969.. so I saw the Space Invaders arcade craze phenomenon (every machine in most every arcade was pure Space Invaders) and lived the Atari VCS at home. so yeah when the NES came out I was already in college Heck, when the NES came out my memory of it was trying get my girlfriends to tolerate me playing it

Thank you sir.. does my heart good to have these things in electronic format freely archived for the ages

Here ya go. RAW uncropped, unfixed, fresh from the scanner scans. If anyone can help fix up and put this into pdf/cbr format (E-Day? Phillyman? that would be awesome as I dont really know how to do that Also If anyone thinks I should rescan any pages at all just let me know, as it'd be easy to do. Enjoy.. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GIDQS3CE

Light at the end of the tunnel! Got about 10 more pages to do then I'll post the RAW scans up. Sorry it's taking so long but I basically squeeze in 5 pages or so a day while I work So be on the lookout

Guess I should just give an update.. I'm slowly scanning this mag. I'm 29% of the way done but hopefully a burst will happen relatively soon Click for larger preview

Allrighty then.. #3 it is. I'm scanning it this week. I think I'm getting better but I find myself sometimes scanning a single page like 3 or 5 times just to get it straight Ah well.. sorry for the amateur skills but I will get it scanned

Allright allright.. I think I'm refreshed enough to start another scan this week. Any votes on which it should be? EGM 1989 Buyers Guide (aka "EGM 0") or EGM #3? EGM #0 shares much in common with Electronic Game Player I scanned above.. except it has a lot more color And EGM #3 is a very cool issue with the Turbografx and Genesis spreads, and DEFINITELY is the start of the classic EGM we got to know with the review crew scores and whatnot. Anyway.. eventually both will be scanned. Question is which one next? p.s. I noticed the EGP I scanned above was placed in the "misc." magazine section.. I think it should be put into the EGM section.. after all that's what it is

Whoah man you're fast. Even if it took you a couple months I still think that's great Thanks for doing that..

When? Good question That 1st one took me almost all day to scan (while I did other stuff) so it's a kind of a pain to do them. But I will do them. Let's just say whenever I get around to it which will be sometime in the next month or six... Awesome man!

This is the first of my projects to get these scanned (unless someone does them before me.. which would be great. Scanning is hard work! ) I started with the Electronic Game Player (EGP) dated Sept/Oct 1988. EGP is sometimes dismissed as a "pre-EGM newsletter", rather than a part of EGM's proper timeline. But in my opinion it is early EGM through and through predating issue #1 and sharing much of the features of the 1989 Buyers Guide. Although most of the pages are in b&w, Steve Harris, Ed semrad, Donn Nauert, and all the gang are there, so is the Quarterman column, the "Direct Hit" reviews, etc. Anyway, take a look and you can be the judge. Regarding the scans, first of all, my magazines are not mint (which will be obvious ). There are tears and the pages are a little dingy. These are not Ebay purchases but rather I bought them all back in the day straight off the newstand, and have they've gone through my usual abuse i.e. reading them when I was younger. Also, I'm not a good scanner nor a photoshop user. I did the best I could with the gear I have, and tried to make them as straight as I could in the time I could spare. But the truth is they're all over the place. At the end of the day I figured they were a nice little part of history so until someone finds a nicer copy and does a better quality scan, they are what they are.. and they're there for all to have. I purposely left them raw right out of my scanner for the express reason that someone more skilled could try and fix them up. So, if anyone wants to take them and do what needs to be done (cleaning, cropping, joining, etc.) you are absolutely welcome to as that would be awesome! Have at it..... http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HGCICTIJ

Crazy.. makes me wish I had bought a the whole magazine rack lot back in the day! Unfortunately I only bought one

Allrighty.. I'll do it. That being said I noticed some of the guys here are real hyper-particular of how scans should be done, etc. I am definitely no scanning expert, nor am I a photoshop expert. All I can do is scan them in using the gear I got the best and straightest that I can... But just know they'll probably be all over the place and raw. Someone else has to do the cleanup probably if they want to But scan them I will...

Yeah I can probably do that. The only thing is these are my original magazines, bought from the newstand back when they were available. So they aint exactly in premium shape.. they're pretty beat up actually (some even missing covers). Hey, I read them a lot! At least I kept em all though. Anyway.. I just quickly scanned what he asked for right now, the Alleyway & SML review, as well as the cover, so check it out. http://download.yousendit.com/26DC35B25F5AB10A I only have a single scanner here and it's a Canon MX700 all-in-one. And I am also not exactly an expert on doing them (making them straight, cleaning them up, etc.). But there ya go. I did have one project I was thinking of doing first though.. and that was to scan in my issue of EGP (Electronic Game Player). To me, that is the first issues of EGM although they don't really acknowledge it. They always pretty much dismiss it and say it was just a newsletter that predated EGM, but if you look at the writing, the people involved, the articles etc.. it's pretty much the same magazine as the early EGM's. The name is just different. Here's the some low-res scans from it so far including the cover and the Quarterman article..

Yeah I got that issue.. I'll try and scan that review later and put it up somewhere.