[game_preservation] Classic gaming magazines for sale in digital? Plus Gumpei Yokoi translation

[Melanie Swalwell]

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Was googling something else and an interesting series of products by 

> this seller came up. They appear to be subscriptions to an online 

> database of videogame magazines. The description doesn't really tell 

> me much, but they're being published by Books LLC. This almost seems 

> like a scam...

Well I can vouch for the mag titles -- I've just spent the last year 
accessing and going through these in hard copy in the State Library of 
New South Wales.  They are legit.  Some mags from this period are 
partially scanned and available online.  I would be VERY interested if 
they were all available digitally.  I am also intrigued as to how this 
could all be bundled, esp. into a 62 pp paperback??.  While ACP 
published some of these titles, I find it hard to believe that PBL would 
own the rights to all these publications -- I know they didn't published 
ETI, for instance -- though they may well have licenced them.  I wasn't 
aware PBL was such an archivally aware company...  Maybe its new owners 
are taking it in new directions, trading off the back catalogue.  James 
Packer is supposedly more interested in casinos than media these days.  
I will do some digging and see what I can find out.

Melanie

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> http://www.amazon.com/Australian-Computer-Magazines-Nintendo-Powerplay/dp/1155323173/

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