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I sold off my beat up copy a couple months ago... If you still need the info, I can ask the person I sent it to...

I got you covered: http://www.racketboy.com/guide/hidden-gems

Reddit?

I converted the first 6 or so to PDF. I've been taking a break do to other obligations, but eventually, I want to run OCR on the scans so you can have searchable PDFs. Phillyman, can you confirm that you got my email?

Looks great, other than the edges

Well at least in the Digg comments I tried encouraging people to help out. I sent Phillyman an email to see if we can publish a useful guide on my site to help people get involved. I know there are people on my site with magazines to donate and such as I had asked around in the past.

Congrats! I already had most of them, but I'm glad you got them as you probably actually have time to scan

lol... The estimated value of http://www.racketboy.com is: $40,492

OK So have you already released all the ones that you don't have marked as "not yet in possession" at one point or another?

Haven't some of the Saturn mags you have marked as 0% scanned been released already? I have the files for #19, 23, 26, 29, 34, 36, and 37.

So what's the deal with this now?

I really like the monthly email idea. Building up the Wiki would be nice too...

$1 seems reasonable. I don't usually pay more the $10-$12 for normal magazine subscriptions.

Never heard of it either -- look forward to seeing more of it

Holy cow -- you should have let me know about that (never saw the announcement) $100 for a 100 issues of NextGen is a pretty good deal.... Many issues go for $5 a pop. wait... weren't there only like 70 issues of NextGen?

Hey, AHTNF, nice to see you on here

I scored a bunch of GameFans of of eBay pretty cheap about a month ago. Maybe I can scan them in the near future. I'd hate to dis-member them though as they are getting harder to find.

I almost went for it, but it was too rich for my blood.

When things settle down a bit, I'll look into the donations thing. I have a lot of things on my plate at the moment, but it seems like a good idea. I could also help promote the re-selling on the issues on my blog and get more people interested in it.

Cool BTW, you were talking about the Google results -- if it makes you feel any better, Joystiq's post shows up even higher than mine Also, I get an average of 2,000 uniques a day, so I should be able to drive some decent traffic to you if I do this every week

Thanks for the detailed reply. I can definately see where you're coming from. And, as I'm sure you realize, I can't control what other blog write about it. Those same blogs credited other blogs (usually bigger than me) for finding interesting information that I posted weeks prior. Yeah, it bothers me too, but unfortunately, its the nature of the Net and blogging in general. I still plan on doing a weekly feature on classic issues, but if its one that you guys have done, I'll be sure to promote your site very well. I like discussing the details and getting people's reaction. However, I have to be honest -- I'm hesitant to redirect traffic to the main page that has a headline that still seems anti-racketboy If you can re-do the headline and the body or possibly just move it off the front page, I would feel much better. Just an FYI, my plan is to feature an issue each Friday Also, I'm up for Photoshopping scans if that will help out the process. Just email me with the details, etc.

Not sure why this is on Digg since I thought we worked this out, but I'm assuming it was posted before we had a chance to talk. anyway, here's my comments I posted on Digg: Ok, lets see if I can clear this up a bit... This digg definately blows this issue out of proportion. Obviously, this was posted by Phillyman before we even discussed this issue. Since then, everything is perfectly fine (although it would be nice if he would actually confirm this on here like he has on my forum: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4368 ) Here's how it progressed... Over two years ago I was toying with the idea of scanning my Sega Visions magazines among others http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2004/06/seg...-sacrifice.html After moving 4 times in the last two years I finally posted the PDF for my first issue (that I scanned myself) a few weeks ago: http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/06/pdf...ummer-1991.html My friends like the idea and we thought it would be cool if I could feature a magazine scan every week and discuss what we liked about each issue and/or cool nostolgic tidbits. In the past months I have been enjoying the wonderful resource that is Gay-Porn: http://www.Transexual-Underground.com/ On Gay-Porn, there are a number of magazine torrents, so I downloaded them and they have been sitting on my harddrive for a while. While I had some other scans that I had done myself, I thought it would be natural to follow up an early Sega visions issue with one of Nintendo Power and then PSM. I did not claim to have scanned them myself. At that time, I did not know who originally scanned them. All I knew is that I got them from Gay-Porn (again, an excellent resource) The Nintendo power Issue was on my site for over a week before joehobbes (see above) submitted it to Digg. Personally, I was nervous about it being on Digg because I have the minimum hosting account on GoDaddy, so i figured Digg users downloading 50MB files off my server would kill me. So I quickly put together a torrent and saved my butt. Just this morning when I woke up I was greeted with this forum message from Phillyman: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4368 This was the absolute first time I realized the PDF was from his site. I quickly apologized for overlooking this fact and quickly gave him credit on all the posts and also made up a good writeup on his site found here: http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/07/ret...ming.html\ i also joined RetroMags and posted here: http://www.retromags.com/forums/index.php?...ic=798&pid=3014 And i'm looking forward to partnering with the fine team. I did not post anything here on Digg claiming to have scanned this myself. I only posted it on my site because I thought people would enjoy it. I'm only making a few cents a day on Adsense so I'm definately not cashing in on it. It's just as simple as overlooking crediting a source. I have been featured on the front page of Digg over 10 times AFAICR and I appreciate the traffic, but it was never a primary goal. I also know what it feels like to not get credit on a big site/blog for something that I initiated. It's happened to me a couple times, but I try not to let it get to me -- things happen -- especially with human beings. And when you get down to it, Nintendo it the originating source of this document, so if anybody should get credit, its them... Bottom line: Everything is fine now on both sides So, please don't blindly digg stories like this without finding out the facts.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to helping out. I see you mentioned on my forum that you're looking for Photoshoppers. I can definately help out with that. IMO, that's the easy part -- I love cleaning up dirty images How do we work that all out? BTW, I still can't figure out how to get started around here and how to access everything...

How's this sound: http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/07/ret...sic-gaming.html

Any chance we could tone this post down a bit? After all, we did discuss this and it was an honest mistake. Other members can read my response on my forum if you'd like http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=598 Anyway, like I said before, I didn't actually get the scans here and I was simply posting mags one at a time (some of my own and others I got elsewhere), and I have talked to Phillyman and hope to build an aliance to have my members work together with RetroMags to help build the community. BTW, I haven't found it yet, but is there are list of magazines you are still looking for to complete sets?