Areala

As someone who works retail, there's literally no way to do my job from home, so...

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Areala

I think the last Marvel movie I saw was the Avengers. I'm just bored to death with comic book films. Pass from me, but I hope it does really well. ScarJo deserves it.

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Areala

Careful! If this gets too much attention, he'll start posting the Canadian Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editions, and it'll be wall-to-wall polar bears and parkas up in here.

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Areala

5 hours ago, CrazyMax46 said:

I can't seem to find anything? I don't have access to any of the data bases or the forums or at least I can't find them.

The Magazine Database is here:

https://www.retromags.com/magazines/

The Forums are here:

https://www.retromags.com/forums/

There should be a blue navigation bar which runs across the top of the page, just under the main Retromags logo. If this isn't showing for you, we may have an issue with either permissions or themes. We'll look into it and see. Upgrading the site software always introduces a few days' worth of chaos.

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Areala

19 minutes ago, mvangord said:

Anybody know where the shoutbox went?

It's temporarily off-line. We updated the forum software, which broke a couple of the plugins we were using. Unfortunately, the shoutbox was one of the casualties. I imagine once we find a version that works with updated software, it will make its triumphant return.

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Areala

I was so super into Mixxzine (and later TokyoPop) when it came out. I also had a subscription to Pulp for a while, though I don't think we could archive those due to the adult content. Exciting to see TokyoPop showing up here! 

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Areala

What's up with the new ranks and badges and stuff? Did Philly update things?

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Areala

5 hours ago, Rando1975 said:

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I'm sure there was 1 magazine that did have Thrill Kill on the cover. But I don't remember which one. I know it wasn't GamePro or EGM. It was one of the lesser known magazine. I want to say Tips & Tricks? 

Good memory! Tips & Tricks from October 1998 did, indeed, use Thrill Kill on their cover. I stand corrected.

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Areala

7 hours ago, mvangord said:

Maybe Thrill Kill as well even though that game was technically released (although not officially).

Thrill Kill may have been mentioned on covers, but to my knowledge it was never the featured game on the cover of any magazine, at least in the US.

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Areala 

3 minutes ago, E-Day said:

MigJmz can have those. I have enough of my own problems 

"Operation: Make @MigJmz Cry" officially underway. 

1 minute ago, E-Day said:

That's up to you. GamePro would get scanned right away I think ;).

What's a few more issues added to the 100+ already?

Ah, so I should throw in the "Computer Games Strategy Plus / Computer Games Magazine / Computer Games" issues then too?

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Areala

2 minutes ago, E-Day said:

Happily I am done editing everything listed in that last post and they will be released (hopefully) daily over the next two months. Apart from some odds and ends that I will be doing next (Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision game catalogues, a VG&CE), I first want to concentrate on restoring the August 1995 issue of GamePro from the digital files I got from @TheRedEye which will get released with a new scan of the magazine. After that I have a couple of boxes from someone on Facebook that I have been sitting on for years. Those are exclusively Nintendo Powers from 1996 onwards, about 114 issues. And I still have a box of the very early Nintendo Powers from that massive donation that I still have to get to. Plus more from @daemonZ. It never ends!!

So what you're saying is you want me to send those GamePros right away?

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Areala

32 minutes ago, MigJmz said:

my output is slow because i'm scanning on a flatbed but I will eventually get to all the PSM mags donated by Areala.

We need to use some of the slush fund to get you a better scanner. I did, I think, two mags on a flatbed before I gave up.

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Areala

1 hour ago, mvangord said:

Man they really hyped the hell out of that Lord of the Rings game nobody remembers

True, but at least they got in a mention of the massively-underrated (and now massively expensive) Kuon in their "16 Games No One Cares About (But Should)" piece.

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Areala

Looks like we only have a few of the issues preserved here at the moment. I'm not sure if anyone else grabbed them off Archive and has them in their collections, but once something's taken off Archive, there's no way to recover it from that site. Maybe one of our members saved them though, so we'll see if anyone pipes up who can help.

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Areala

Welcome to Retromags, @BlitzFitness!

There's no single, easy-to-check way to learn exactly what our scanners have on hand, but I can give a few pointers.

First, the Magazine Database section has an option for editors to set issues to "Scanning" status. Most scanners will do this for the next several issues in their queue just so people know what's coming or so two different people don't work on the same issue independently. In the case of PSM, you can see that, right now, issues 13, 16, 17, 28, 29, etc... are currently marked as "Scanning", so sooner rather than later, they should be popping up. But since I recently sent 38 PSM issues to @MigJmz, the database hasn't been updated to account for those yet, so there's more than meets the eye in many places; just because it says "Missing" doesn't mean we don't have it. Issues 14, 19, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 56, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 97, and Code Book 2000 were in the haul I sent, so there's plenty of PSM goodness still to come.

The second way is to check the forums. Some members, like @E-Day, keep a "Work in Progress" thread they update periodically to show what's coming down the pipeline. As you can see from that thread, he's got his hands full with a ton of EGM's. We received an absolutely monstrous donation of mags back in 2019, and they all wound up on E-Day's front porch. I'm not entirely sure he knows everything that showed up in that haul, but as you can see it's kept him busy for over two years already.  

The third way is to do what you did here, and make a new thread or ask in the ShoutBox. Late-era PSMs (and early-era PlayStation: The Official Magazine issues) seem to be fairly hard to come by these days, so I'd be surprised if we had more than a handful awaiting digitization. Donations are always welcome, but everybody always has a lot on their plates, so I'll let them work out how best to proceed. Thanks so much for becoming a member, and for the generous offer! I hope your stay here is as exciting as it can be! If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask. 

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10 hours ago, mvangord said:

I had an issue of this despite never owning a Sony system at the time, it was something I got at a dentist's office they let me keep since it was a back issue.  I don't remember the cover but there was a story on making an RPG with no cliches (you're not the chosen one and your hometown doesn't blow up) and they had an image of a healer who was covered in blood.  Pretty sure it was late 2002, Vice City might've been on the cover?

Finally, my time has come to shine!

This is issue #50 (SSX Tricky on the cover) from October, 2001. The feature is "PSM Makes the Ultimate RPG", with artwork by Adam Warren.

The bad news is, we don't have a copy of this one on the site.

The good news is, this issue was included in the lot I just posted to @MigJmz, so we have a copy in the pipeline.

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Areala

I dumped two full boxes' worth of PSMs in poor @MigJmz's lap (bet you regret opening that PM now, huh?), so there's a crap-ton more where this came from.

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Areala

All apologies. The link points to the wrong file. We'll get it fixed ASAP!

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Areala

Yes! All of the Parasite Eve!

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Areala

E-Day, when I get the funds to ship those GamePros, you may wind up with a big-ass stack of late-era Nintendo Powers too.

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Areala

OMG, all we need is 74 and we have a full run of the first 100 issues. SCHWEET!!

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Areala

The only official takedown request we've received (that I'm aware of) came from Game Informer, who explained they have an archival system in place for their magazine already and requested that we not host issues here. That's why GI is marked "Not Allowed" in the database.

When Nintendo went after the Internet Archive for hosting all the Nintendo Power scans a few years ago, we removed our copies as well. This was in preemptive self defense, since the Archive was hosting copies of our files with the credits page still intact, which could have pointed Nintendo at us, so NP went away while all that was being sorted out. With Nintendo Power having ceased publication almost ten years ago, this seems less likely to be an issue.

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Areala

13 hours ago, Ethereal Dragonz said:

This is one of my most memorable issues and this is a beautiful scan.

I was obsessed with Mortal Kombat II and while waiting for it to come out on home consoles, I would stare at these preview magazines for hours.

Same here. Mortal Kombat II absolutely conquered my childhood, both in the arcades and at home. Back in those days, if a magazine put it (or anything about it) on their cover, I was sold.

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Areala

On 5/15/2021 at 2:12 AM, Sivilius said:

Let's see if anyone can spot the April Fool's joke in this issue. And let's just say the obvious answer is the wrong answer...

I read this issue when it first came out. My brother and I were convinced the joke had to be the presence of some unnamed hidden boss character in the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo game. It seemed the most likely, considering the Sheng Long gag from a couple of years earlier. But of course, Akuma was legit and we were duped.

If memory serves, the gag turned out to be a news blurb about Radio Shack re-issuing tons of Atari 2600 software due to consumer demand for less violent video games.

(Edit: memory did not serve, as the "joke" this issue turns out to be the misspelling of "Streets of Rage 3" as "Streeets" on the cover. That's not an April Fools gag, that's a typo. That's the kind of crap we'd expect from a LamePro entry, not the mag that fooled us with the promise of Simon Belmont in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II but I guess that's what happens when Martin Alessi is no longer around to keep the tradition of quality going).

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