Areala

Back in the day, they had to be. This was all new, uncharted territory. Anybody who wants to get an idea of what it was like to make video games in the 70s and 80s needs to grab a copy of the new book "Racing the Beam". It's a very in-depth look at the hardware for the Atari 2600, as well as profiles of six games that were famous (or infamous) on that system and what it took to create them. You can grab it from Amazon here if you're interested, or at least read the reviews. I was floored at what those poor designers had to go through just to put an image on the TV screen.

Alrighty! Nix all the country codes, preceeding zeroes, and dates in the titles...that's simple enough to remember. Seems like it'll make for a huge amount of moving or redirecting for you guys though...sorry for the extra work. :( Hey, can I add the little infobox for the magazine image and whatnot on the pages I am stubbing too? It might make it easier for anyone else to come along and update the information and the magazine scan, but if you want me to stick to just the basics, that's cool too.

Roger-Roger! Official XBox Magazine fully stubbed. Now for breakfast...

In triverse's signature at Replacementdocs.com.

*ROFL* I'm not even gonna ask what he did to deserve that...

I so rarely paid full retail price for a game when I was younger that I couldn't tell you what the standards were, though I recall seeing some places selling Super Mario Bros. 3 for as much as $80. I mostly got my games used from secondhand stores like Funcoland. It wasn't until the PS1 came out that I was actually employed gainfully enough to be able to purchase my own games. The first PS1 title I picked up was "Final Fantasy Anthology", and I actually had that before I had the system. Nowadays, it's still rare for me to dump the full $60 price on a game unless it's one I've been waiting for. So far this generation, I've made that allowance only for Mirror's Edge, Tomb Raider Underworld, and Dead Space. All three have been worth it; every other PS3 game in my collection has been purchased at the $40 and under level, to say nothing of the "DUH!" purchase price of $30 brand new for Sonic's Ultimate Sega Genesis Collection. My lord, that was a steal at like $0.50 per game on that disc. *huggles* Areala

*SQUEE!!* I'm a Princess!! Ummm...what exactly does that mean? I was wondering about that...I didn't think I did anything, and all of a sudden there's this new forum I hadn't seen before. But then, I didn't notice the shoutbox before either, so I figured maybe I just needed new glasses or something... Glad to be of service. This is so much fun! *huggles* Areala

Complete index information entered for Nintendo Power issue 055! Nintendo Power 055 Index

The one that got me back in the day was the "secret code" that allowed you to play as Simon Belmont in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game for the NES. Drove myself bonkers trying to put in that dumb code to no avail before I took another name at the credits for the trick and read them outloud: "A.P. Rilphules Fromegeem, HA" Properly translated, of course, this read, "April Fools from EGM. Ha!" Ooooooooh was I mad...

Yeah, you admins get all the fun toys... Thankfully, it seems like somebody has done a fairly thorough job of uploading Nintendo Power covers, so I haven't had to bust out the scanner yet. Also, one other thing I wanted to let everyone know: I work in a bookstore that buys and sells used magazines as well as books. I try my best to grab up every old gaming magazine that comes in, especially if they are non-US publications. If there are any certain issues of any certain magazines that you want me to be on the lookout for, don't hesitate to let me know. They don't come in very often, but when they do, I can get them at absolutely unbeatable prices. It's entirely possible that I could help be a resource for mass-donations to the site in the future for very little-to-no money out of pocket save postage costs. *huggles* Areala

Well, my original plan was to come here and scan a bunch of nifty stuff, but now I've been playing around with my scanner and it's kind of giving me some troubles, so I'm putting scans on hold for the time being until I can figure out what's up with my hardware. Instead, I've noticed there's this big, huge Wiki with all these empty and stub-class entries for the Magazine Indexing Project...so I'm going to officially dedicate myself to dusting off my boxes of classic mags and start dumping complete index information into that lovely, virginal Wiki-space while everyone else plays with their scanning equipment. I'll use this thread as my own little "work in progress" area so that I've got a list of what I've done so far and what I'm working on at any given time if that's OK with the rest of you. Maybe one day I'll be worthy of a sticky, but until that day comes, I'll just update it whenever something new or interesting is going on over there. So, as my first sources of pride and joy to be released on the site, I give you the complete indexes for Nintendo Power, issues 059 and 062. Feel free to check my work and make suggestions/corrections/repairs as needed, ye great and powerful moderators. Nintendo Power 059 Index Nintendo Power 062 Index (4/16/09): Index work for issue 072 has been completed! Nintendo Power 072 Index *huggles* Areala

Thanks, Meppi! Pleased to meet you. You're right about moving the Classified Information, of course. It's been taken care of and the page looks 100% better. *huggles* Areala

Gotcha. Well, patience is something I'm reasonably good at, so no worries if it takes a while to get up to speed. I've got the site bookmarked. And no worries about the early dates. I don't have much at all in my collection post-2000 except for some issues of Game Informer. One last question: is there a list of Templates for the Wiki? I can have all kinds of fun contributing index information and other bits and pieces there while you guys are overhauling the organization of the main page. Also, just to make sure I'm not messing anything up, I did a test-run of a complete index for an issue of Nintendo Power that I had laying around. If someone would like to check my work, and you find it satisfactory, I'd love to keep going. http://www.retromags.com/wiki/Nintendo_Pow..._apr_1994_(USA) *huggles* Areala

Thanks! I've been looking around for the best way to go about working on stuff, but the format of this site is different from Rdocs, and I'm having a hard time locating things like lists of resources that you already have vs. what you actually need. Where's a good place for me to get acclimated to see what's wanted, and how to go about uploading after I have something to submit? I browsed around on the Wiki, but the area for submitting, say, cover scans has the rules to use, but nothing on what to do after said covers have been scanned. Point me in the right direction and turn me loose. *giggle*

I've not seen it mentioned anywhere else, and it's totally the sort of thing enthusiasts would be into. I have a large number of "Rainbow" magazines. This was the magazine published specifically for the TRS-80 CoCo user back in the 1980s. I'm not 100% sure how many I have, but I'd estimate at least a dozen or more. Rainbow published all sorts of nifty articles about things you could do with your CoCo computer, compiled full BASIC code listings for a variety of different programs including some pretty impressive games, reviewed hardware and applications, published puzzles, and held contests including ones for full programs that were written with only 1 or 2 lines of code. It's an insanely cool look at what the CoCo community was like back then, and it seems like the perfect sort of thing to donate to Retromags as they are certainly old enough. Would these be of interest to the site? I'm not certain if I have the heart to personally destroy them in order to scan them, though I'm more than willing to at least do cover scans and attempt a non-destructive page-by-page scan of them if y'all think they'd be good on the site. Would samples help? Seriously, these things rock and I'd love to share them.

Another newbie stepping off the train and into uncharted territory. I found this site through another member who posted at Replacementdocs.com and had this site in his signature (Hola, Triverse!) I'm a major old school gamer, and I collect older gaming materials, especially strategy guides and magazines for games and systems long-defunct. I've been scanning manuals for Rdocs now for just about a year, but as I'm slowly whittling down the number of submissions I can make there, I thought maybe I could help out the community here every so often too; I own scads of older gaming magazines and guides. Hang on...I think I hear my scanner crying. *giggle* Anyways, it's good to meet all of you and with any luck, I'll be able to help the site grow a little here and there. Every little bit helps, as they say. *huggles* Areala