New Releases - 01/25

[Kiwi]

JabbaTheGamer donated and Gregorick scanned PC Gameplay #09. Nice!!

[Kiwi]

gater donated and Jason scanned the June 1988 issue of Your Amiga.
Interestingly this issue was published by Argus Press who were responsible for publications like Computer Gamer. I thought they had disappeared by the late 1980's this was a surprise to see it. Later issues of this title were published by Alphavite so either they sold the title to them or it died and the later issues are a completely separate title. Not sure which so they are bundled together until I find out otherwise..

[Kiwi]

Jason brings us the June 2007 issue of NetGuide (AUS)

[Kiwi]

Gregorick kindly scanned and submitted 360 #96.

[Kiwi]

The 1978 Dr. Who Annual is now available.

[slider1983]

Once again, this is scans by Jason, and edits by me.  Jason did a fine job, as always, so it's through no fault of his that this was one ugly scan.  Titan should be absolutely ashamed of the paper stock they used.  Just terrible.  These mags were all in like-new condition, aside from the aging, with many of them still sealed in their original polybags.  But the discoloration from the aging of the paper is the kind of thing you usually only expect in newsprint, not magazine stock.  For shame.

Wow! Mine definitely aren't that brown. 

I'd put money on issue 108 having fluorescent colored wording on the cover. That's where the Fujitsu scanners have it over pretty much any other scanner out there with the chops to handle those colors way better than the competition hence my trying to keep the 5650c going. If it wasn't fluro then the publisher sure had bad taste with the color palette of that issue.

One of the GamesMaster mags I previously scanned have a reflective mirror cover which is cool since the lettering acts like a mirror (you can see yourself in the lettering) but doesn't come out well in a scan. I can't remember if my finger was immortalised on the scan of that one due to the reflection. 

[Kiwi]

Another type-in magazine scanned with the June/July 1983 issue of Sinclair Projects added to the download area.

[Kiwi]

Issues 01 - 04 of First Look, another short-lived gamerzine has been submitted by Gregorick.

     

[Kiwi]

Amstrad Computer User #47 is now available.

[Kiwi]

An Encounter with Halley's Comet 1985-86 is now available.

[kitsunebi]

Wow! Mine definitely aren't that brown. 

Yes, you've said that before.  I look forward to seeing your scans of the missing early issues, if you've got them (issue 1,2, and 4.)  Of course it would be pointless to compare these with later issues since they'd obviously look better, being both newer and possibly printed on different stock.  But if you've got the exact same issues as I've already released and yours are less brown, I'd have to guess that it might be due to the UK's infamously sh*tty weather perhaps being more conducive to preserving paper products for decades than the hot humidity of Japan. 

None of that changes the terrible print quality of the mags themselves, though, which is something Jason had to deal with more than I.  Seriously, mags whose ink comes off on your fingers?  That's acceptable in newspapers, but piss poor printing for magazines.

It's all good though.  It really doesn't matter how old a mag looks when it's scanned.  If edited properly, it will look better than even the best preserved physical specimen, and be available for all to enjoy.  Scanner:1, Box-in-a-closet:0

One of the GamesMaster mags I previously scanned have a reflective mirror cover which is cool since the lettering acts like a mirror (you can see yourself in the lettering) but doesn't come out well in a scan. I can't remember if my finger was immortalised on the scan of that one due to the reflection. 

Also, I've gotta wonder...how exactly are you scanning your mags so that your finger could possibly be reflected??  Seems impossible even if you WANTED your finger in the scan...

[Kiwi]

Gregorick provides us with First Look issues 05 to 08

     

[Kiwi]

Zzap!64 #54 has been scanned and added to the download area.

[Kiwi]

Page 6 #22 is now available.

[kitsunebi]

Games for Windows #17 is now available.

This is the last issue of the title (and could also be considered the final issue of Computer Gaming World, since that's what it was before the name change).  No mention is made of it being the final issue, though the cover date perhaps hints at some behind-the-scenes uncertainty, as it's labeled the April/May issue, despite being monthly up to this point.  So presumably they gave themselves some extra breathing room to get things sorted, which turned out to be unnecessary since they were canceled in the interim.