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

[Andrew Armstrong]

  Yeah, don't bother, as I said it's just republished Wikipedia articles 
Melanie!

Not to say there won't ever be republished archives, but this won't be it.

Andrew

On 18/08/2010 02:43, Melanie Swalwell wrote:

> 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

>>

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

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