Speaking of scanning: TV Guide '82, '83: "The Year's Best Video Games"
Steve 'Flash' Juon
potential treasure troves: a 1982 and 1983 small-sized TV Guide with
the feature "The Year's Best Video Games" on the cover and in-depth
(well for TV Guide at least) coverage on the inside. I don't know
if these resources exist online or not - if they do I shouldn't waste
the time to scan them. If I do, I don't have an appropriate site to
host them on (mine suck up too much bandwidth as it is). So to the
RGVCers out there I ask: would it be worthwhile to scan these in and
if so does anybody have a site where they would host the image files?
- Steve
Kirk Is
Well, ideally I think you could just scan the images and type in the tex,
which will be much easier to read and generally less bandwidth consuming.
I might be able to help with this. I only go with providers that offer
unlimited bandwidth (usually the catch is the amount of diskspace you get
is rather small, 50 megs or so. If you really ask nicely I might even help
with the typing. (I typed in the stuff in the Wittenburg Door Christian
Video Arcade and it went pretty quickly...I think the spellchecker caught
most of the typos.)
Man, you know what I'd *really* like to get my hands on? Some of those
old videogame specials Games magazine would put out back then. There was
this one issue in particular...had a lot of 02 coverage, as well as
Intellivision and the other big systems (not sure if Colecovision was out
yet.) I think that episode had a pseudo-noir time travelling mystery
called "The Hemlock Kissoff"... that one meant so much to me when I was a
kid, before I had any kind of video game system of my own I loved to read
and read and read that feature.
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"Kirk Is" <kirk...@alienbill.com> wrote in message
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I saved those Games magazine articles!
The first was called "Private Screenings: The Games Guide to Home Video
Games." It appeared in the December 1982 issue and was written by a guy
named Phil Wiswell. It covered the Astrocade, Atari 2600, 5200,
Colecovision, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, and Vectrex. The article ran 10
pages, and at the end you could order any of the featured games.
The second one I have was called "Fine Tunings: The 1983 Games Guide to Home
Video Games" edited by Burt Hoichberg and R. Wayne Schmittberger. It dropped
the Astrocade, but otherwise covered the same systems as the previous
article. It also had a sidebar on controllers, but ran only 6 pages.
If there is enough interest, and no one else has done it yet, maybe I can
scan them and have the guys at Atari Age.com put it on their site somewhere.
I also have tons of articles from the old EG magazine (the yearly previews
and the yearly guide to "programmable videogame systems" as they called it).
Mark
Kirk Is
> "Kirk Is" <kirk...@alienbill.com> wrote in message
> news:k%Au8.57$641....@news.tufts.edu...
>> Steve 'Flash' Juon <dj.f...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> > From the mysterious past of my video gaming youth, I unearthed two
>> > potential treasure troves: a 1982 and 1983 small-sized TV Guide with
>> > the feature "The Year's Best Video Games" on the cover and in-depth
[snip]
>> Well, ideally I think you could just scan the images and type in the tex,
>> which will be much easier to read and generally less bandwidth consuming.
>>
>> I might be able to help with this. I only go with providers that offer
>> unlimited bandwidth (usually the catch is the amount of diskspace you get
[snip]
>>
>> Man, you know what I'd *really* like to get my hands on? Some of those
>> old videogame specials Games magazine would put out back then. There was
[snip]
> I saved those Games magazine articles!
> The first was called "Private Screenings: The Games Guide to Home Video
> Games." It appeared in the December 1982 issue and was written by a guy
[snip]
> The second one I have was called "Fine Tunings: The 1983 Games Guide to Home
> Video Games" edited by Burt Hoichberg and R. Wayne Schmittberger. It dropped
[snip]
> If there is enough interest, and no one else has done it yet, maybe I can
> scan them and have the guys at Atari Age.com put it on their site somewhere.
> I also have tons of articles from the old EG magazine (the yearly previews
> and the yearly guide to "programmable videogame systems" as they called it).
Hey, cool!
I'd be willing to help with a full HTML-ization process...even though you
lose some of the visual information, (which probably bugs the same kind of
people who are in to collecting label variations) it makes it much more
readable. Maybe if you could get full page scans to me, and if there are
any other volunteers, we can put this together.
Somehow I find good mainstream coverage of videogames more interesting
than the dedicated magazines. It's cool to see the combination of
popculture and old games.
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I've been meaning to scan a lot of those classic articles from Games, Time,
Electronic Games, Electronic Fun, etc. I've also got a lot of full-page ads,
including some for hard-to-find 2600 games like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and
Flesh Gordon. Since the graphics files will be so large, I'll burn them onto
a CD-ROM and send them to whomever is willing to work on finding a temporary
or permanent Web site host for them. I'd be glad to send one to you Kirk, so
just contact me via e-mail some time and let me know your address.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to work on it right now. I'm in the
middle of a strategy guide, then E3 is coming up, and then I'll have one
more guide to do. So, though I might be able to scan a few pages here and
there, I won't be able to devote my full attention to it until July. But
heck, what's a few more months when we've waited nearly 20 years already! :)
Mark
Steve 'Flash' Juon
> Hey, cool!
> I'd be willing to help with a full HTML-ization process...even though you
> lose some of the visual information, (which probably bugs the same kind of
> people who are in to collecting label variations) it makes it much more
> readable. Maybe if you could get full page scans to me, and if there are
> any other volunteers, we can put this together.
>
> Somehow I find good mainstream coverage of videogames more interesting
> than the dedicated magazines. It's cool to see the combination of
> popculture and old games.
On that very note, I'll send you the text of the TV Guides and you can
archive them on your site if you like. I could even scan in a few of the
graphics if you want to include them (cover art, A-heads, et cetera).
- Steve
Robert Morgan
>including some for hard-to-find 2600 games like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and
>Flesh Gordon.
You should submit these to http://www.vgmuseum.com
They archive, amongst other things, game ads, and as yet have no 2600 ads up.