NE146 Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Posted this on dp earlier (so pardon my cut/paste ).. figured I'd post it in the 2600 forum since it's more traveled.. and hey, there's 2600 stuff in it. Some kind soul scanned May 1982 Vol 1, No. 3 issue of Electronic Games and posted it on usenet. Thought I'd share it out if anyone's interested. Fun reading in all it's 1982 golden age glory. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/userid947/3-EG-May82.pdf 19 megs. Snag it now as it won't be up there forever. If it's too slow for you the newsgroup is alt.binaries.emulators.misc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 thanks man...i love those old mags..i wish there were more of these scanned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks. I don't have that one. I didn't get my subscription until later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncillaryDrone Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncillaryDrone Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Edit: Is that Loretta Lynn playing Centipede on the cover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maibock Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 whoa.. women played arcade games!? those *were* crazy times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent X Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thank you for posting that. Electronic Games was such a great magazine; it's nice to be able to flip through the pages on my PC now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks for posting this...what a great mag I wish more people would scan these in and post them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks for posting this...what a great mag I wish more people would scan these in and post them... I'm slowly working on a page that I was planning to have some Electronic Games scans on (with other stuff), but I was hoping I could get away with just scanning in the front cover and a few pages that stand out to me from the inside. Is that good enough or do people want the whole thing? Seems like it would take a loooong time to scan in all of those pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Look at page 69. I can't believe that Apollo games was selling hacked game cartriges for 99.95 They were putting peoples initials into spacechase, so they could be king shit, just because their initials were in the game.. How rare would those be today, and how would you tell if your spacechase was modified like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maibock Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks for posting this...what a great mag I wish more people would scan these in and post them... I'm slowly working on a page that I was planning to have some Electronic Games scans on (with other stuff), but I was hoping I could get away with just scanning in the front cover and a few pages that stand out to me from the inside. Is that good enough or do people want the whole thing? Seems like it would take a loooong time to scan in all of those pages. I think the charm is reading the whole mag - adverts and all do it! do it! do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks for posting this...what a great mag I wish more people would scan these in and post them... I'm slowly working on a page that I was planning to have some Electronic Games scans on (with other stuff), but I was hoping I could get away with just scanning in the front cover and a few pages that stand out to me from the inside. Is that good enough or do people want the whole thing? Seems like it would take a loooong time to scan in all of those pages. I think the charm is reading the whole mag - adverts and all do it! do it! do it! I have to finish doing these other scans first before I even think about doing that. I hope someone else will beat me to it. I love having the scans on my web site once I'm done, but I hate doing the actual scanning since I haven't had a scanner yet that was perfectly aligned with the side so you can use it as a guide. I almost always have to preview 2 to 10 times trying to get as straight as possible. Maybe I'll do some in 2005 if no one else does. I also ripped out articles from some of them to put in sheet protectors in notebooks on different game design subjects back in the early to 1990s, so I'll have to track those down too. At least those pages will be easier to scan. I guess this means people will want me to scan in all of the pages from my K Power magazines too. If I do that, I will not spend much time cleaning them up then. It would take too long. Maybe it won't be so bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap5750 Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Edit: Is that Loretta Lynn playing Centipede on the cover? Loretta Lynn never looked that good. Cap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 That's actually something I want to do..eventually. But 2 problems, 1. It really does take too long. and 2. Lack of a scanner That being said I do have one here at work. Here's an issue of Joystik I scanned a while ago: http://www.spaceballsthewebsite.com/ne146/...082%20COMPLETE/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap5750 Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 That's actually something I want to do..eventually. But 2 problems, 1. It really does take too long. and 2. Lack of a scanner That being said I do have one here at work. Here's an issue of Joystik I scanned a while ago:http://www.spaceballsthewebsite.com/ne146/Joystik%20Dec%2082%20COMPLETE/ I've converted the above to a pdf doc. 12.6 meg. I can send it to you if you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeybastard Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 There's a great column about Skeet Shoot having a defect in the first cart run. I didn't know a game sucking really bad counted as a defect J/K I know there was screen rolling problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elviticus Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Great stuff! Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRetroGamer Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 I was contacted a few months ago by a fellow who wanted to do a similar project, I wonder if was the same guy? He asked if I wanted to assist in a scanning project for EG Mags and convert them to PDF. I declined because of the amount of time involved and also because I felt that at some point, CD ROM collections of this would be showing up for sale on eBay. I will say that whoever did this one did a nice job! BTW, I have a cover gallery of all my mags on my site: http://retrogames-r-us.tripod.com and I have been known to scan particular articles on request! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted November 12, 2004 Author Share Posted November 12, 2004 That's actually something I want to do..eventually. But 2 problems, 1. It really does take too long. and 2. Lack of a scanner That being said I do have one here at work. Here's an issue of Joystik I scanned a while ago:http://www.spaceballsthewebsite.com/ne146/Joystik%20Dec%2082%20COMPLETE/ I've converted the above to a pdf doc. 12.6 meg. I can send it to you if you want. Sure! I'm thinking that those are sort of not really good images to use for that.. I shrunk them down a little too much for the sake of space... so they aint exactly the best quality pics. But hey, in a pinch it will do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 I almost always have to preview 2 to 10 times trying to get as straight as possible. Photoshop + Image->Transform->Rotate + manual adjustment in the degrees field. Voila! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsoper Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 Loved page 19. There was a letter and cartoon about Surround, Space War, Slot Machine and the other phased-out 2600 someday being rare collectibles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap5750 Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 That's actually something I want to do..eventually. But 2 problems, 1. It really does take too long. and 2. Lack of a scanner That being said I do have one here at work. Here's an issue of Joystik I scanned a while ago:http://www.spaceballsthewebsite.com/ne146/Joystik%20Dec%2082%20COMPLETE/ I've converted the above to a pdf doc. 12.6 meg. I can send it to you if you want. Sure! I'm thinking that those are sort of not really good images to use for that.. I shrunk them down a little too much for the sake of space... so they aint exactly the best quality pics. But hey, in a pinch it will do. E-mail? FTP? Cap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 I almost always have to preview 2 to 10 times trying to get as straight as possible. Photoshop + Image->Transform->Rotate + manual adjustment in the degrees field. Voila! :-) Oh yeah, I can do that now since I scan in such a huge image. I can rotate, then resize and the image quality shouldn't suffer too much. It used to suffer when I used smaller images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 (edited) Since we are sharing scans, here are a few from Playboy Guide: Electronic Entertainment. I won't be scanning in all of the pages from that since most of it is boring and not game related: http://www.randomterrain.com/files/scan7pbgee7fc.jpg http://www.randomterrain.com/files/scan7pbgee7p31.png http://www.randomterrain.com/files/scan7pbgee7p32.png http://www.randomterrain.com/files/scan7pbgee7p33.png Edited December 17, 2007 by Random Terrain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcrowe Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 Fuckin' SWEET! Xmas came early Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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