New Releases - 01/23

[Kiwi]

We time travel back to 1984 next with CVG issue 37 now scanned and added to the site. Ahh!! The days of solo programmers creating great games for the 8-bit home computers, type-in listings and cassette tape loading. Glorious days indeed!!

[Kiwi]

PlayStation - The Official Australian PlayStation Magazine issue 06 is now available thanks to AralDite.

[ed209]

Thanks for the CVG's! The quality upgrade on previous releases is huge.

[Kiwi]

Thanks for the CVG's! The quality upgrade on previous releases is huge.

The previous releases were produced by Mort probably 20 years ago when scanners and software were nowhere near as capable of producing good scans as they are today. I know as I had a flatbed scanner back then and they were frankly pretty crap!! Additionally, I think he didn't want to destroy his mags hence their being raw scans. But he was pretty much the only person willing to scan hundreds of mags on a flatbed scanner. I sure didn't!! So for that we should all be extremely grateful as it probably helped push computer/gaming magazine scanning into the limelight. Prior to that most people scanned individual pages of mags and left out advertising content etc.

More issues are incoming!! Stay tuned!! 

[Kiwi]

Speaking of CVG issue 41 is now available.

[ed209]

Brilliant!
Ahh yes, the joys of flatbed scanning.. Mort deserves nothing but praise for his effort

On a side note with CVG, there is a bunch of issues towards the end of the magazine's life that I could never find: issues 207-221, 224, 229, 231-234, and 273. Has anyone seen these available?

[ChickenMan]

On a side note with CVG, there is a bunch of issues towards the end of the magazine's life that I could never find: issues 207-221, 224, 229, 231-234, and 273. Has anyone seen these available?

Some of those are at archive . org - Search for "computer video games 207" will get you #207, for example.  Quality is good.

[Kiwi]

gladiator scanned all of those except 221, 233 and 234. I have nothing after 246 of member scans but I do have third party scans for several issues including the aforementioned 273. As far as gladiator's scans go I just need to work out which ones can be added as-is and which ones need some editing work.

It's definitely on my todo list for sure.

[Kiwi]

gladiator's scans of CVG issues 207, 208 and 209 are now available.

   

[ed209]

Awesome! Thanks so much
Btw that huge games magazine database I mentioned some time ago, I will make public once I've finished adding OP2UK magazine..
I have not provided much in the way of scans, but hopefully this will give something back to the community (it's very handy!)

[Kiwi]

Not new releases as such but issues 210, 211 and 212 of CVG are now available as I continue to work through gladiator's scans.

   

[Kiwi]

Definitely a new release is AralDite's scan of Official Nintendo Magazine (AUS/NZ) issue 24

[Kiwi]

Another three 1994 vintage issues of PC Engine Fan have been added to the download pool thanks to Hubz.

   

[Kiwi]

3D Artist issues 11 - 15 are now available. I am moving away from PDF completely so these have been extracted at 600DPI from the PDf files after removing the publishers overlays to mask the issue barcode on the cover along with the production panel on the index page and watermarks (why did they even bother?) and recompiled into CBZ files

   

 

[ed209]

Thanks for CVG's again.
I actually posted the wrong list of missing issues btw.. those were issues of PC Gamer UK I am missing lol.. woops.

CVG's I dont have are 233-238, 242-245, 247-276, 278.. so if anyone has seen this lot please let me know