New Releases - 05/23

[Kiwi]

Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 35 is now available.

[slider1983]

Well, I'm not defending the toy - it looks pretty bad, but to be fair:

Yeah I know. Those early polygon graphics aren't great to look at sometimes. 😂

[Kiwi]

Friends from the other end of the country have been staying so not much time to do anything on the site of late. However they left to head back home this morning so Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 53 is now available. One to go ....

[Kiwi]

PlayStation Power issue 16 is now available thanks to Gregorick

[Kiwi]

He also provides us with PSW (UK) issue 80.

[kitsunebi]

In addition to generously gracing our humble selves with his immaculate presence on this Earth, kitsunebi has also deigned to provide us with his scan of Comptiq #242. Truly his virtues are without end and we should all proffer him multitudinous gifts of cash and inebriating libations, amen.

https://www.oldgamemags.com/forum/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;id=10524

[Kiwi]

Dreamcast Magazine (JPN) issue 111 is now available. This closes out the huge donation of magazines by GunyenTony who along with kitsunebi have between them provided every Japanese language magazine hosted on the site. Massive thanks to those two for providing a wealth of foreign language material we would not otherwise have had.

[kitsunebi]

Congrats on finishing those.  Don't forget that we also de-giganticized a bunch of Hubz's stuff from the Internet Archive before he pulled it and went dark.

For the handful of people here who care about Japanese magazines, not to worry - I've still got closets full of them to scan.  Whimper.

[modgeezer]

He is still active, he just changed his name to RevengeOfTheHubz

[Kiwi]

He is still active, he just changed his name to RevengeOfTheHubz

Not sure about that. The newer scans released under that name account are not of the quality of earlier scans so I decided not to use them until such time as I know for sure it's actually him.

EDIT. By quality I mean the later scans weren't color corrected etc.

[kitsunebi]

Not sure about that. The newer scans released under that name account are not of the quality of earlier scans so I decided not to use them until such time as I know for sure it's actually him.

EDIT. By quality I mean the later scans weren't color corrected etc.

Yeah, if it's the same guy, he stopped trying as hard.  But considering all of the scans uploaded by that account say "Scanned by the Video Game History Foundation" I'd say it's probably Cifaldi or one of the people on his staff getting paid to do that stuff.  Regardless, Hubz' Famitsu issues remain absent from the Internet Archive (unless someone else uploaded them), and the fact that the Revengeofthehubz account directly links people to a website taking cash donations, they're possible targets for future takedowns as well (copyright violations are always more likely to be challenged when $$ is involved).

Anyway, all that means for OGM is that we've got Hubz's older scans (since we had his permission) and we won't have any of Revengeofthehubz' scans (since we have no reason to believe it's the same guy, and thus don't have permission.)  Granted, so long as they remain available at IA, it's irrelevant.  So fingers crossed they stay that way.  Although I personally have no need or desire to have multi-gigabyte 600dpi copies of mags bloating up my hard drives, so I'm kind of averse to downloading them myself.

[Hubz]

So RevengeoftheHubz is for sure me just FYI, feel free to take whatever scans you want and host them here if ya'll like.

The scans with "Scanned by the Video Game History Foundation, please consider supporting them!" in the description were not done by me but were shared to and uploaded by me and some others to get out there. Quality isn't as high but better than nothing and the ones that weren't taken down are circulating away now for research etc.

Magnet links to torrents are available of sets I've scanned here so feel free to use these as well. - https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/magazine-sets/

[kitsunebi]

Thanks for the clarification.  Every mag in that account I've ever clicked on was of the "Scanned by the Video Game History Foundation" type, so I assumed they all were.  But I admit I just randomly clicked on a sampling of mags from different upload times - I guess I just picked the wrong ones by coincidence.  I haven't actually ever downloaded anything from that account, but that's only slightly because of the 600dpi thing (since resizing them for personal use is possible, if inconvenient) and more to do with the fact that I don't read or collect gaming mags anymore.  I just continue to waste my time scanning them because...I have a screw loose in my head, I guess.  Maybe a brain tumor? 

[matrixman1013]

Several more of the later issues of Hyper have been changed to CBZ format and are now available.

Thanks, going to enjoy these!

[Kiwi]

Gregorick submits PSW (UK) issue 75 for our enjoyment.