Old Game Magazine Scans

[gaterooze]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but please move/delete if it's a no-no.

Does anyone have links to torrents of scans for old gaming mags like Your Sinclair, Amiga Power, Saturn/Dreamcast mag, Mean Machines, etc?

I bought a few collections from http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzuperstore.html (they're BRILLIANT!), but there are some they just don't have available, though I've heard are "out there". Anyone able to help? Thanks.

 

[rygar]

This is quite a good place for C64:

http://www.binaryzone.org/

Enjoy

 

[cHEM]

All the Speccy mags you would ever desire:

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/

(a part of www.worldofspectrum.org -- a great spectrum resource all round)

lol.

 

[gaterooze]

That cover would never be allowed these days

Thanks for the replies so far.

 

[White Demon]

http://www.commodoreformat.co.uk/

You can find some (not all unfortunately) Commodore Format mags there.

 

[gaterooze]

Thanks White Demon, that's one of the ones I was after.

I just stumbled onto this site with some oddities:

http://dinosaur-act.ath.cx:8000/cpg/index.php?cat=3

 

[Dunny]

I'm currently working in my spare time, so it's slow going) on a PDF of every Crash! review ever:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/Preview.pdf.

Estimated time to completion is about 5 years.

D.

 

[WhizzBang]

I'm currently working in my spare time, so it's slow going) on a PDF of every Crash! review ever:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/Preview.pdf.

Estimated time to completion is about 5 years.

D.

That looks superb! Your pdf is of extremely high quality, are you actually typing in the review and then recreating the page look on your PC, rather than scanning the pages in? If so, it looks like a lot of work but the results are worth it. I hope you see it through to the end.

 

[markiej]

That cover would never be allowed these days

Maybe on the NAMBLA monthly newsletter

At a used book store, I discovered about 5 Electronic Games magazines from the early 80's (Colecovision era) & found them highly amusing reading. Example - nowadays reviews brag about games that last 30 hours, back then it would be a miracle if the game featured 3 screens! As a kid, that was probably a good thing, because it forced us out of the house more. Since the games were pretty short, and weak (though that didn't stop me from playing Atari Superman hours on end.

I wonder if anyone's digitized those.

Also, that reminds me, what's the best version of Miner 2049er that's well playable on the 2x?

 

[chaos engineer]

for the german speaking part of this forum. here is a site with thousands of scans, you can even search different magazines by entering game titles

Kultpower

Oh my god, the magazine Powerplay rated the Amiga version of Shadow of the Beast only with 59 out of hundred. This journalist is such a fool.

 

[vitriol]

some more for the german speaking people here on the board

http://www.homecomputerworld.de/ for "Happy Computer" and "C64er" articles

http://www.kultboy.com/ for "Amiga Joker" "PC-Player" "ASM" and many more

http://www.longplayer.de for longplays from "64'er", "GO 64!", "ASM", "RUN", "Power Play", "Happy Computer"...


have phun

 

[andyB911]

I'm currently working in my spare time, so it's slow going) on a PDF of every Crash! review ever:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/Preview.pdf.

Estimated time to completion is about 5 years.

D.

That looks superb! Your pdf is of extremely high quality, are you actually typing in the review and then recreating the page look on your PC, rather than scanning the pages in? If so, it looks like a lot of work but the results are worth it. I hope you see it through to the end.

Looks brilliant. Printing off now to read on my commute home.

And I actually have the Sinclair User magazine with the scanned cover above... didn't think anything odd about the cover at the time, but then I was only 10 :lol: . Sinclair User was incredibly 'dry' but there wasn't much choice in those days.

 

[messiah]

there is a site called "underground gamer" they have loads of unique soft like released only in released soundtracks CD (e.g 2GB of Samurai Shodown OST's, unique castlevania OST' etc, as well hi-quality scans of older game mags like nintendo-power, byte, dreamcast mag, saturn mag). They are covering almost all consoles and system, (being PSX,GBA and DC the newest) and have really more you think was released.
Worth looking for.

 

[DaveC]

Oh my god, the magazine Powerplay rated the Amiga version of Shadow of the Beast only with 59 out of hundred. This journalist is such a fool.

Honestly Shadow of the beast wasn't that great. It was basically walk right and time punches to bop sprites out of the air. It was a rip-off design too as things would just pop out and kill you right away. Crap game design. It had great graphics for it's day, that is about it.

 

[PokeParadox]

The Mean Machines Archive gives you the reviews from the mags

http://www.meanmachinesmag.co.uk/

 

[frutbunn]

There are a few scans of Acorn User, A & B Computing, Electron User, Elbug, Laserbug and Micro User at the Acorn Preservation site:

http://www.acornpreservation.org/


Also, maybe slightly off topic for this thread, but if you haven't seen these on Google video yet, then they're worth a look:

The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 & 1986:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4452828653035179681
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8506805860498336030
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4919721764503746485
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8809956249441247726
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1145380363753040334

They play fine on the GP2x too.

 

[sensible GP32]

The Mean Machines Archive gives you the reviews from the mags

http://www.meanmachinesmag.co.uk/

well thankyou thats amazing i loved meanmachines almost as much mas mega drive advanced gaming.

 

[CABBAGES]

I must have 1000s of old magazines . I need to go find them in cupboards and stuff and i just got my scanner back after letting my friends dad borrow it over 5 years ago! So if i can find any interesting magazines and if i can figure out how ot work this scanner then i will try find somewhere ot upload the scans

Edit: Dam i cant find the disc !!! I downloaded drivers off internet and it still wont work. Maybe i need the software form the cd

Anyone know ho wi coudl get it to work ? Its a packard bell diamond 1200 plus


Edit again: Got it workin Havent found any really old ones yet just tryed an official playstation mag issue 25 front cover and the magazine is too wide !

Heres some scans of a couple of things just messin around with the scanner settings and that. I will look for some older stuff tomorrow