New Releases - 02/24

[Kiwi]

Interestingly, I am scanning some circa 2016 PC & Tech Authority issues at the moment (same publisher as Hyper) , and I've seen advertisements for 2 more Hyper Specials. A VR Special, and an E-Sports special.

Can anyone recall these? There may still be more to find out there.....

The VR special was issue #264 and the esports special was issue #265. By that time all they were releasing were special issues. Issue #266 was called the Lounge Room special. Issue #268 was the Shooter Special

[Kiwi]

Gregorick gives us another three issues of PSM2 to sink our eyeballs into .....

   

[Kiwi]

Jason submits no less than six issues of Australian PC Authority for us....

   
   

[Kiwi]

Jason found and scanned Official Nintendo (AUS) issues 34 and 41.

 

[gater]

Interestingly, I am scanning some circa 2016 PC & Tech Authority issues at the moment (same publisher as Hyper) , and I've seen advertisements for 2 more Hyper Specials. A VR Special, and an E-Sports special.

Can anyone recall these? There may still be more to find out there.....

The VR special was issue #264 and the esports special was issue #265. By that time all they were releasing were special issues. Issue #266 was called the Lounge Room special. Issue #268 was the Shooter Special

#271 (the final issue) was the Military Special.

[slider1983]

After the massive scan I sent in I might try something a little lighter next time. 

[Kiwi]

Issues 232 and 236 of Australian PC Authority have been added thanks to Jason.

 

[Tricky]

Holy heck!! Jason also gives us PC Powerplay #006 

Thank you so much Jason! Ever since I threw out my PC Powerplay mags (always regretted it), I've been trying to recover them with digital copies. This fills a significant gap. I don't suppose you have issue #3 waiting to be scanned? That issue, along with #66 to #71 & #77 would complete the first 100.

[HUNZso]

Thank you so much Jason! Ever since I threw out my PC Powerplay mags (always regretted it), I've been trying to recover them with digital copies. This fills a significant gap. I don't suppose you have issue #3 waiting to be scanned? That issue, along with #66 to #71 & #77 would complete the first 100.

I have this #3 issue in pretty good quality. I sent it to Kiwi and if it's good he'll post it, I think.

Unfortunately, I don't have the #66 to #71 & #77 issues either. (The newer ones are most likely in some quality with or without watermark.)

[Kiwi]

Three issues of Australian PC User are available thanks once again to Jason...

   

[Kiwi]

Holy Sh#t!!!! Thanks to the combined efforts of paskvild and Gregorick we have CVG #247 available. I may be wrong but I think this hasn't been scanned/available before today!! 

[kitsunebi]

Well, it sucks that this is a leap year, meaning that this mag drops on the 29th and will be forgotten as everyone moves onto the March thread in a matter of hours, but this mag was perhaps the most time-consuming mag I've ever worked on.  And I didn't even scan it.

Game Player's Guide to MS-DOS Computer Games Vol.1 No.2 was scanned by marktrade years ago, but...no offense to the guy, it was pretty fugly (1988 + cheap paper = very very BROWN.)  The editing I had to do on this was unlike anything I've ever done before.  There was no "action set" I could use to apply changes with a single button press - every page required editing individually, and the screenshots had to be edited separately from the text portions (it may look like it, but this isn't just a case of cranking up the white levels - in fact, I never even touched the levels editor).  The changes are pretty huge, so if you're offended by attempts to make mags look less than a thousand years old, you can still find the original at the Internet Archive.

Here's a couple of comparisons:




Why go to the trouble?  This is a rare and somewhat historically significant mag.  Despite being Vol.1 No.2, this is actually the very first Game Player's mag to cover PC games.  When Signal Research began publishing its line of Game Player's mags, their original plan was to have different mags rotating monthly under the same "Game Player's" umbrella.  So Vol.1 No.1 was actually a Nintendo mag, then came this issue, then Vol.1 No.3 (again, a Nintendo guide), and then Vol.1 No.4 (back to PC games).  Then, with Vol.2, they decided to split these mags into separate publications, but continue numbering both series with Vol.2.  So the Nintendo mag became Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games, and the PC mag became Game Player's PC Strategy Guide.  But both series share the same Vol.1.  So this issue is technically Vol.1 No.2 of both Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games AND Game Player's PC Strategy Guide.

ANYway, this is the first issue of what (with the next issue) would be called Game Player's MS-DOS Strategy Guide, and later Game Player's PC Strategy Guide, and later still, Game Players PC Entertainment.  AND THEN, it would become PC Gamer (USA).  So technically, this issue is the birth of PC Gamer (USA.)  Not that it shows it yet.  It would be a couple of issues yet before they hired the writing staff and created the format and columns that would evolve and eventually carry over into PC Gamer.  But as a huge fan of early PC Gamer USA, this issue deserves its place in my collection, primitive as it is, and I wanted it to look nice, so...here it is.

[ed209]

Holy Sh#t!!!! Thanks to the combined efforts of paskvild and Gregorick we have CVG #247 available. I may be wrong but I think this hasn't been scanned/available before today!! 

Fantastic!! thanks guys, one less MIA CVG
Issues yet to be scanned are 233-238, 242-245, 248-276, 278.

[Kiwi]

@kitsunebi - that's some serious amazing editing there mate!!

I can hazard a guess and say that probably consumed several hours of your valuable time. Hats off to you though. That looks fantastic!!

[Tricky]

I have this #3 issue in pretty good quality. I sent it to Kiwi and if it's good he'll post it, I think.

Unfortunately, I don't have the #66 to #71 & #77 issues either. (The newer ones are most likely in some quality with or without watermark.)

I'm very excited that #3 could finally be available. Thanks HUNZso!