Tony_32

Quite frankly, no. If I can't read it, I don't want it. Not to take anything away from non-English mags, but I'm really only interested in American gaming and its culture, which is what I was raised on. Just like how I have an interest in the history of the "TRaSh" 80 CoCo. Some call it trash but it was my first computer and I still remain loyal to it despite how it compared to other computers att.

I'm finally getting around to manually downloading all the NP's here. I always assumed the NP's were complete here but it's missing 90 and 92 if you want all up to 100. Looking at the torrent I download, it doesn't have those either. Is it just a matter of time or does no one have those here? I don't want to seem too impatient or demanding, just curious. I was under the impression it was all complete to 100.

Yeah, go ahead and change it. I should've done that before. btw, you can all just call me Tony.

Thanks for the detailed info. I just manually crop, then F2 to resize to 1440 then F3 to save as JPG at level 9. It's not as fast as yours but I'm just trying to make sure I do it all correctly before I learned to go any faster. I just got to trying it and glad you mentioned it. I think I got it figured out. It will be more important for my SF2 guide because there's lots of pages that will will really stand out if they're not aligned correctly.

Mine would be my brother buying an Atari 2600 at K-Mart for $30. I may have been around 5 years old. I didn't know what it was then. I was jealous because my brother got to play it and I didn't. Only after having it a while would he let me and only sporadically. I remember my favs were Pitfall, Combat, Eggomania, Pacman, and ET. But at that time, I only liked ET because I loved the movie and it was the first movie I ever saw in theaters and I was too young to know what a crapfest it was.

I'm not sure exactly. I've known of the place for years and even had the NP torrent. Probably found out initially because I downloaded mags a lot and saw the nfo. I've been meaning to join for some time when I knew I'd have the time and dedication to scan my mags.

Atari 2600. First one I bought was a TG-16.

Atari 7800 Nintendo Entertainment System Super Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo 64 Sega Master System Sega Genesis Sega Dreamcast Sony Playstation Sony Playstation 2 Nintendo GameBoy I don't play them at all, lol. If I play games, it's PC games or I play the console games on my PC using other means .

I just discovered the same thing. I've used it for about 10 pages and now back to the old way. I do believe I read where you mention the crop box trick. Mind telling me how to do it?

I'm just finding out so if you didn't know, click the eyedropper tool and hold, choose ruler. Then align the ruler with the page or a column on the page and go to image, rotate canvas, then arbitrary. PS auto-straightens the image according to your line. Before, I just had a shortcut to F4 and F5 to arbitrarily straighten either direction by 1 degree and then using the crop selector to check the straightness of the page.

lol @ this thread. In all fairness, I will give VHS credit for being a lot more durable but as joker mentioned, high def mkv would be my choice.

Anyone know a way to kill it? I use canoscan software where I just push a button on the scanner and the toolbox window shows up. Problem is, I'm alright with that but it keeps stealing focus. FFS, I can't browse the web or do anything else on here happily without it stealing focus. It doesn't do it just once but twice per scan. Ugh!

I'm staying out of this one and going back in my foxhole.

Yeah, I loved it. I could own all my friends at Goldeneye. Using a NES gamepad now, it feels unnatural. I'm not sure if it counts or not, but I'd go with the good ole mouse and keyboard.

I got the day off work today. I will likely spend some of it scanning off my Street Fighter II guide for SNES. I love the artwork inside the mag and it's a very detailed guide, 150+ pages. I am currently doing a series of Game Player's but I'm not very disciplined at following a consistent order.

Also, don't forget Nolan Bushnell who did a lot to get games off big arcade machines and expensive computers to a comfortable place in people's homes.

Yeah, I miss it too but unlike you, glad it died off. It died for a reason. I like my games real-time.

I can't recall any, lol. Maybe I suck and/or just take my time. I usually feel if I rush through it cheapens the game.

Superman was a fav when I was a kid, also The Neverending Story. LOTR series is great but it's too fantastical for me. I just can't get into those like I could as a kid. Now I'd say Braveheart.

I'm glad also. But the same could be said for the old folks who grew up in TV's heyday. But as an 80's kid, TV then was great also. Lots of great shows, A Team, Airwolf, Dukes of Hazzard. Lots of good sitcoms, too many to name. Lots of great Sat morning cartoons. I guess lots of things seemed great looking back but the grown ups that were kids when I was just getting out of school seem to recall TV shows and games for which would fall out of my heyday rankings. It's all relative, if you ask me. We're sort of the old toy collector's, in a sense. Just as the old guys who still collect old toy train tracks and such from their heydays. They'll probably tell you toys were better then because you used your imagination more and it was more physical. In other words, one man's heyday is another man's hellday.

I've had the same experience. Mom has some treasure hunting mags from the late 60's, early 70's and I ebayed them and got no bids. Old mags don't seem to have a big market. I mean, it's historical information about a specific time and culture, what's there not not love about old mags? I guess other people don't get the love from old books and mags as I do. Most major mags have their own digital archive now such as Time and National Geographic so they won't be forgotten.

SM3. MARIO! MARIO! MARIO! Remember the commercial? It got me so hyped for it and when I finally got it for xmas, you couldn't pry it out of my hands with a crowbar. SMB is a close second. And let's not dare mention that bastard of a game, SM2. Oops!

I've pretty much given up collecting physical copies. I'd rather have digital, it lasts longer. And being a minimalist, I like it all on one small drive instead of big piles of mags in my closet. Yeah, there's something a bit more special about a real mag that you can feel but it's mostly the images and information of the time that I'm interested in preserving. Sorry for going off on a tangent.

Yeah, I didn't understand as much of that at the time and didn't own a pc. If given the right conditions, I probably could've been a big D&D nerd. But I'm usually weary of games that require too much time investment.

I picked this game up cheap in '96 and just couldn't get into it. I'm not sure what it is, I love the idea of dungeon games, I just can't usually get into them.