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What do you guys do with old video game mags? I have a ton of Tips n Tricks magazines Im not sure what to do with.

Retro vidya magazines General I suppose

>> No.1694843

I sold like 50 Tips and Tricks magazines to Half Price Books for like two dollars. Fucking Jew store.

>> No.1694883

I used to have every game players magazine with subscribers newsletters but I lost them. Man I'd love to have thos e back

>> No.1694921

>>1694815
I would take long satisfying nostalgia fueled dumps.
If I had those phone book sized EGMs from back in the day i would take so many poops

>> No.1694946

someday I want to go through all mine and scan them for the good of the internet
that would be a pretty major undertaking though

>> No.1694968

>First place to reveal the Wild Woody nude mermaid trick
>Owned by the same company that published Hustler Magazine

>> No.1694970

>>1694815
Betty Hallock!

>> No.1694973

>>1694815

Bury them and nostalgia in 50 years.

>> No.1695013

Got rid of all mine. Damn I miss GameFan. Great resource for those looking to import games.

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>>1694843
Dumbass, you can find $2 on the goddamn street if walking five blocks won't put you in intensive care.

Anywho, here's some of my older and odder books. I have a buttload of EGMs, NextGens, and Gamepro mags in boxes in the basement.

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1695801

I got a couple boxes of Gamest. Not sure what I'll do with them.

>> No.1695826

>>1694815
>Jason Wilson stealing the magazine blind while being head editor.

T&T a shit.

>> No.1696184

I keep them around and sometimes take them to the bathroom to read while I take a dump

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>>1695792

>mfw I bought that TurboForce when it was brand new
>mfw the Bubblegum Crisis article got me into anime

>> No.1696241

>>1694815
Collect the ones you're missing, or if you don't feel like it, sell them all on auction sites.

>> No.1696339

For those of you who don't know what to do with your old magazines, you could scan or donate them to Retromags.

>> No.1696362

>>1694815
Don't get rid of them, OP, whatever you do. I threw out like 3-4 boxes of old Nintendo Powers, going back to like 1990, when I moved several years ago and I still regret it.

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>>1695826
Is that what happened? 'Fighting game guru' and retro vidya collector Dream Theater destroyed T&T?

>> No.1696626

I own a handful of Tips and Tricks which are dear to me that I keep safe and will never sell. Then I have a huge pile of them which I might sell on ebay or something in the future. Right now they are all sitting in a cabinet drawer.

Man, I loved that mag. I remember that the quality of T&T dropped off of a cliff after around 2007. Maybe because of >>1695826

>> No.1696715

>>1695826
>>1696626
What do you mean Jason Wilson robbed them blind? What happened?

A few years ago, I actually contacted Tyrone Rodriguez on Facebook. He was a total gentleman. I also contacted Jason Wilson. He wasn't as nice. :/

Anatole Brown, Tommy Tallarico and Bill Donohue and other video game personalities I messaged. They were all super nice, too.

>> No.1696716

I got a stack of EGMs from 97-2002, im missing a ton but I basically have the rise and fall of dreamcast documented in magazine form.

>> No.1696718

Scan and upload them somewhere for people to read. Preserve them.

>> No.1696720

>>1696718
>Scan and upload them somewhere for people to read. Preserve them.
This. I would love to read some of those old magazines.

>> No.1696723

If you have the time or the patience then scan them and archive them digitally. Then distribute them.

>> No.1696727

>>1696715
I always thought Tommy Tallarico was a pretty cool guy after watching him on that old game reviewing show on G4/TechTv

What the hell was it called?

>> No.1696730

>>1696727
Judgment Day/Reviews on the Run.

I love how honest his reviews and opinions of games were.

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>>1695801
If you plan on putting any on eBay I'd probably snatch them up.
I wish I had my old copies of Gamefan and Tips & Tricks.
Nowadays I like to collect old gaming magazines when I can find them.

>> No.1696747

>>1696723
>>1696718

emuparadise only has like four issues of T&T, it would be pretty cool of you to scan a bunch

>> No.1696750

>>1696720
There's plenty here.
http://www.emuparadise.me/magazine-comic-guide-scans/magazines

And some more for Britfags.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/magazine_catalogue_UK.html

>> No.1696774

>>1695801
>>1696745
You people should scan before selling 'em, there's barely any scans of old school japanese magazines, period.

>> No.1696908

qI ended up throwing out most of my late 90s/early 00s EGMs to make room in my old apartment but my mom recently gave me some early 90s and late 80s ones from when I still lived with her. They're now stocking my magazine rack, though they're mostly hidden behind junkier magazines I'm okay with my 1-year-old tearing up.

>> No.1696924

I too have a bunch of Tips n Tricks magazines. From time to time I'll turn to the preview section and read the little text on games that are supposed to come out soon. Funny how most of those games were shit or never saw the light of day.

>> No.1697028

>>1696715
Hey, im not saying they are bad people, im just saying that something happened along the line which caused the quality of the mag to go down. I remember thinking 'tips and tricks is so fun and great' to 'why do I pay for this again?'

>> No.1697034 [DELETED] 

This isnt very retro, but do you brits/europeans remember a gamecube mag called Cube? That magazine was the bomb, I (american) used to buy them occasionally. Now I cant find any info on them on the web or anywhere...

>> No.1697146

I remember reading a German magazine called Mausklick when I was younger.

>> No.1697419 [DELETED] 

>>1696750
I wish some has the 150th issue of EGM. They ranked the best 150 games of all-time.

Anyone want to guess what number 1 was?

>> No.1697424

>>1696750
I wish someone has the 150th issue of EGM. They ranked the best 150 games of all-time.

Anyone want to guess which game was voted number 1?

>> No.1697436

>>1694815
I wish somee more magazines were scanned from foreign countries, I lived around a Latin American country. It was nice to read other magazines besides just Club Nintendo when my newsstand kept magazines from Spain such as Super Juegos and Loaded.

>> No.1697480

I keep all of mine in my closet and pull them out every once in awhile for nostalgia purposes.

>> No.1697498

>>1694815
The UK ones were great, the USA ones not so great coz they were full of ads, bad writing and they rarely played the games they reviewed and they didn't have good feature articles.

>> No.1698302

>>1697436
muh nigga. I`ve recent bought a Hobby consolas magazine with turok 3 review and other stuff.

>> No.1698317

>>1694815
Junk that some hoarders like to collect, which is a lot of what makes up this board. I do have some of my early Nintendo Powers still lying around that I'll look through every few years for nostalgic sake, though.

>> No.1698987

>>1694815
English mags were the best.

I remember the US mags like EGM. Just full of fucking ads and screenshots.

Whereas the British mags were full of humor. Every pic had a funny caption, the writing was funny too.

CVG started it off (was that EMAP?), then branched out into Nintendo Magazine System and Mean Machines Sega.

Edge eventually came onto the scene. Good at first but later became pretentious and not worth buying at all.

Even the TV show GamesMaster had it's own mag which was pretty good.

SNES days there were tons of good mags. There was a glossy one that used to review lots of Jap imports, SNES <something> it was called.

Most of these mags are long gone now, thanks to the internet.

>> No.1698991 [DELETED] 

>>1698987
>it's own mag

*Its own mag

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>>1698987
>SNES days there were tons of good mags. There was a glossy one that used to review lots of Jap imports
That can only be Super Play. Great magazine. Every issue is on emuparadise.

>> No.1699404

>>1699093
yep, that's the one!

I remember that's how I learned about a lot of the great RPGs, plus games like Super Puyo Puyo.

>> No.1699436

>>1698987
>Every pic had a funny caption, the writing was funny too.

God I hate how that trend caught on, where every single fucking screen cap had to have some ROCK'N 90s SARCASTIC HUMOUR!!!

Was it really necessary referencing that naked neighbour from Friends on that picture of a mancubus from Doom 2? As opposed to giving us some information about how he attacks or something?

>> No.1702318

>>1696745
I'm skeptical on selling them. Being a greedy bastard, I'd like to make a tidy pile of cash if I sell them. I don't expect to get back all the money I paid for them, but I don't want to be unloading them for a buck each either.

>>1696774
I'm crazy enough to consider that, though it'll be a much bigger task than those flyers I scanned last month.

>> No.1702630

omg if you don't have anything to do with them ill take them :) my email is : lilolilo05132011@gmail.com

>> No.1702635

they have cheap hand scanners. and yea as stated please scan them, someone is just going to throw them away :'(

>> No.1702689

>>1694946
Get together like $20 and pay a kid to do it.

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>>1698987

There was this magazine I have that shows all these PS1/N64-era characters drawn in some 90's grimdark style artwork.

It mostly previewed games that were coming out and briefly talking about them. My favorite thing was not only did they showcase a lot of PS1 games, but they showed off some figurines like McFarlane Toys, and a lot of 90's anime.

The style, artwork, presentation -- it was all so fucking cool.

>> No.1702729

I wish I had classic retro gaming magazines still. I remember my mother donating all my old Game Fan and Game Pro magazines to Goodwill like 10 years ago

>> No.1702736

I'm thinking of scanning my old Nintendo Power magazines.

>> No.1702982

>>1702736
They must be preserved for the good of humanity.

From a quick glance Emuparadise appears to have all of them uploaded though.