rutter wrote: Can I ask this question ^^^ again please - am looking for answers in addition to e-bay - is there actually a market? Or some library curated by an ubernerd? I am looking at half a room of games magazines including One Amiga, Amiga Action, Dreamcast Monthly and even Games Master (!) |
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localnotail 23,079 posts
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I don't think there's too much of a market, basically people who have a tendency to hoard these things will already have complete or near-complete collections (so at best they'll want the half-dozen or so issues they've missed), people who don't collect them won't be bothered.
There's no harm in trying though- I don't think you'll get too much interest in a complete collection, but if you list them separately and recycle the ones which don't sell, you'll probably help out a collector or two and do your bit for saving the planet. Or something.
Edit: whoops, just re-read your post and realised you said other than ebay. Even less likely, unfortunately, although you could try hawking them on here or the Retro Gamer forum at nowgamer and see what happens. -
One last thought (promise!)- if any of your Amiga mags aren't in the scanned collection at Amiga Magazine Rack (see my OP), they'll probably be keen to take them off you for scanning. I expect there's no money to be made there, but you'll be doing a service to Amiga geeks. -
localnotail 23,079 posts
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Registered 13 years agocheers jim, there is an awful lot of amiga stuff so that might work.
Basically my bf had to empty out his family house & sell it last year after his Dad died. there were about 20 boxes of magazines that he had hoarded. He's just got round to sorting through them, and I'm trying to convince him that they should be elsewhere (we need the room), but I'd rather they went somewhere they would be appreciated. I'm going to get toasted and sort them into chronological order at the weekend, and then we'll see where it goes from there. wow, I sure know how to have fun, eh? -
I have issues 1 to 24 to Total Nintendo magazine, the mag itself was pretty revolutionary, and the Editor was none other than Frank O'Connor (Former Manager of Bungie now working for MS on next Halo games)
Mag was very funny and very fanboyish with tons of letter from NES/SNES fanboys ranting and anti megadrive articles etc. They had the first review of Mario World and F-Zero for the SNES way before anyone else, and months before the SNES launch, needless to say I drooled over their scans for months before the SNES launch -
BTBAM 1,982 posts
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Registered 14 years agoAw man, this thread is so awesome. Anyone used to read the official Sega Saturn Magazine? Where Richard Leadbitter (or bedwetter as he was sometimes referred to in the letters pages)? Seeing the Atari ST website is so amazing, I'm looking up all these games that I used to put in and they'd tale ten minutes to load and then once they had I'd get three bombs on the screen (Archipelagos please stand up).
I love nostalgia, but all this was 19 years ago when I was only 5, so it's inevitably sad to think that I used to be that wee nipper patiently playing these games for hours at weekends, holding in needing to piss because I didn't want to miss a second of my alloted '1 hour a day on weekends of games' my parents imposed on me. -
N64 Magazine was the business. Absolutely loved it.
NOM could be pretty good sometimes, and I'll always remember their Pokemon Red/Blue guide which I bought and read over and over in preparation for the game.
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Gruff 3,940 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI remember topping the scoreboard for Super Pipeline in Zzap 64, it was all downhill from there. -
BTBAM, when I rule the world that kind of restriction on gaming will officially be classed as abuse. Incidentally, I was wondering whether the Richard Leadbetter from Sega Saturn Magazine (and many others) is the same guy as the one who writes the Digital Foundry stuff on EG. It must be, right? -
Grew up with C&VG magazine and Julian Rignall et cohorts from about 1983 onwards - subscribed to that til near enough 1990 - went towards music more in my mid teens with NME but have bought every Edge since Ep 32 - oddly I still have all of these in my garage and not sure of to shred / recycle them or not 
/remembers the old C64 codes in C&VG that NEVER fooking worked -
BTBAM 1,982 posts
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Registered 14 years agolucky_jim wrote:
BTBAM, when I rule the world that kind of restriction on gaming will officially be classed as abuse. Incidentally, I was wondering whether the Richard Leadbetter from Sega Saturn Magazine (and many others) is the same guy as the one who writes the Digital Foundry stuff on EG. It must be, right?
Yeah, I think it is the same guy! I just spent the last 30 mins looking over all those old games on that website and it brought back some fucking awesome memories. Games were so shit back then, I'm so glad we have games where you can save your progress now! I only ever completed about 3 Atari ST games. I'm gonna get an emulator and try and play some of those games again though.
I remember the cheats on CV&G never working too, I only bought it around the period it had the yellow toilet paper pages and shitty drawings from readers in the middle (incidentally I remember it being 99p for a time), and I always read cheats that I thought 'WOW THATS IT', get it home, wait for the weekend, and find out it didn't work. I must've been about 12 at that time, but it was so frustrating.
Remember when games used to come with a 'cheat hotline' you could phone to get tips? God bless the internet destroying that cuntish procedure! -
BTBAM wrote:Remember when games used to come with a 'cheat hotline' you could phone to get tips? God bless the internet destroying that cuntish procedure!
Even better, remember when games came with mini-games that you could play while the 'main game' loaded up? Forget what game it was on C64 but the loading 5-7mins was Jet Pack Willy - as soon as it loaded I used to reboot it just to replay that -
caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI've just been having a clear-out and found issues 1 to 10 of The Official Dreamcast Magazine, 1-10+ of DC-UK and 1-10+ of Dreamcast Magazine - a few other random issue 1 mags, too: Dreamcast Monthly, Mega (1-10+), Mean Machines Sega, Sega Zone, Megatech (1-10), Mega Action, Mega Drive Advance Gaming, Arcade - the list goes on.
Do you think it's worth me listing any of these on eBay - not that I think I'll get any 'Mega-bucks' for them, but I'm trying to make space, and recycling them seems a bit 'sad'. -
Scimarad 9,964 posts
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Registered 18 years agoZero was my favourite by miles and miles...
/reads thread
Oh, I've already said that -
I was browsing ebay earlier and stumbled across a back issue of Dennis Publishing's Game Zone (issue 10 from August 1992) being sold for a quid. If you read the OP you'll know I used to really like that mag when I was a kid, and have failed to find any scans of it online, so I just had to buy it.
When I got to the page where they have pics of the staff, I saw a face and name that were strangely familiar. Checking online proved my suspicion right- it was none other that Mrs. Jonathan Ross, Jane Goldman. Looking younger and less pink-haired, but definitely her. As the memories came flooding back, I remember the 13-year-old me thinking she was way too hot to be a games reviewer.
Her Wikipedia entry says she used to write for Zero but makes no mention of Game Zone, but as they were both published by Dennis it makes sense. She reviewed Super Castlevania in that issue and gave it a slightly-stingy 89 per cent.
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StringBeanJean 1,788 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAh was she called 'Janie' in the mag? I remember thinking she was gorgeous, even as a 9 year old. If that's who we're talking about. Well well. On a similar celeb note I remember Danny Wallace writing for Total! at the fag end of its existence. The first couple of years of Total! were great when Steve Jarrett was editor, it went severely downhill after that. I kept most of them until last year but have now chucked them all.
Game Zone was great- like a lot of the mags back then, it was really anarchic and off the wall. I remember they did an article with reviews about faddy soft drinks, why on earth was that in a games mag? Mean Machines did the same but when they got a real stinker of a game they would tear it apart with such surgical and furious precision.
I have a good condition Edge issue 1. Do you think anybody would buy that for a few quid? The 3DO is on the front page and there's reviews of Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Super Mario all stars. -
LionheartDJH 20,303 posts
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Registered 12 years agoStringBeanJean wrote:
I have a good condition Edge issue 1. Do you think anybody would buy that for a few quid? The 3DO is on the front page and there's reviews of Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Super Mario all stars.
Probably. Tim Langdell might give you a few quid for it, or more likely sue you and claim it as his.
As for me I used to read Gamesmaster quite often in my younger days. Have a few copies of Playstation World laying about aswell. Used to like that cos you got a DVD with it that had game footage and reviews and stuff on it (and even one time an easter egg of some crazy Japanese cyborg mini movie!), and the guys who wrote for it were pretty funny. Actually kinda miss the days of reading the same mag over and over again, pouring over screenshots of games I wanted but usually was never able to buy. Now it's all review sites and I can actually buy some of the games I want now. I'd subscribe to a mag, but there's really no point for me these days. -
@StringBeanJean
Yep, that's the one! I was 13 at the time. I'll leave it at that, it'd be best for all concerned.
As for Edge issue 1, that will almost certainly net you a fair amount on ebay. You won't be able to retire off it, but I imagine it'd comfortably fetch double figures. I've never seen issue 1 for sale, but I've seen other early ones (i.e. single-digit issue numbers) go for £15-£20 before.
@LionheartDJH
I used buy Gamesmaster quite often (I used to buy loads of magazines in those pre-net days) and I even had the first issue, but somewhere along the way I mislaid it. I bought a new copy of Gamesmaster recently, for the first time in at least ten years, and was surprised at how "alright" it was. Ok, it wasn't exactly great, and I'm way too old to be in their target audience nowadays, but it was a lot better than I was expecting. -
mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI've got quite a few number one editions: GamesTM, Arcade, PCPro, Total Film, Official DC, .Net and a few others. Wonder if they're worth owt? -
caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agomrpon wrote:
I've got quite a few number one editions: GamesTM, Arcade, PCPro, Total Film, Official DC, .Net and a few others. Wonder if they're worth owt?
Unfortunately - I don't think they're worth too much, Mrpon.
I sold my issue 1 of Arcade for about £4.00 and my issue 1 of The Official Dreamcast Mag for about a fiver - AND I even had the original foil wrapper. :/
I had a few of those 'Retro GamesTM/Retro Gamer' compilations, and they seem to be worth between £15 to £60. -
LionheartDJH 20,303 posts
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Registered 12 years agolucky_jim wrote:
@LionheartDJH
I used buy Gamesmaster quite often (I used to buy loads of magazines in those pre-net days) and I even had the first issue, but somewhere along the way I mislaid it. I bought a new copy of Gamesmaster recently, for the first time in at least ten years, and was surprised at how "alright" it was. Ok, it wasn't exactly great, and I'm way too old to be in their target audience nowadays, but it was a lot better than I was expecting.
That's unfortunate, would have been quite good to have that still laying around. Really? I didn't know it was still going. Might pick up a copy the next time I'm in a newsagents and re-live some of the memories of yesteryear. -
cali, the mags you mentioned had quite short lifespans and didn't sell brilliantly at the time. That means there's a smaller pool of people who are nostalgic about them. I reckon mrpon should try listing the first issues of gamesTM, .net and Total Film (but put fairly big reserve prices on them so they don't end up going for nothing). I'd be interested in how gamesTM and .net do actually, as I've got both those myself- don't intend selling them though. -
mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI think I'm a magazine addict. From my early years my subscriptions went from Beano, Whizzer & Chips, Dandy, PCW, Crash, Your Sinclair, Sinclair User, C&VG, ST Format, Melody Maker, NME, DVD Review, Loaded, FHM, Maxim, Front, PC Zone, Official DC, Arcade, Games™, T3, EGM, Mens Health. Still being a regular subscriber to the last four.
You can plot out my life with those from a kid through to puberty via my music phase finally into adulthood! -
thelatestmodel 364 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI used to love Game Zone and Arcade, two of the best magazines ever. I'd give anything for a complete set of scans. -
papalazarou 138 posts
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Registered 16 years agoBlimey, just read the Mean Machines EA Ice Hockey review for MD from August 1991, brought a tear of nostalgia to my eye...sniff... -
HoriZon 14,351 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI've got all the Super Play issues including the Gold Edition (photos below) and Mean Machine issues 1-10 I think and Edge 0-150 and some ST Format mags lol .gif)
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A few years ago I had The Official PlayStiaon 1-8 with cover discs sold them on eBay for like £100 quid. Also got some old weekly game mags called hmmm I forget now they are in the loft.
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