Out-of-Print Archive Updates

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Out-of-Print Archive has done something that most gaming magazine archiving sites haven't done, Out-of-Print Archive has recently released the first of many many official 100% sanctioned releases by the publisher/copyright holder.  Mr. Hugh Gollner, who was owner and publisher of Maverick Magazines and Gollner Publishing, has given Out-of-Print to release his back catalog of gaming magazines (list below).  

 

The first release with this new partnership, and first step forward of working with publishers and copyright owners, is Mega Drive Advanced Gaming #2.

 

 

Mega Drive Advanced Gaming #2 is now available completely free at Out-of-Print Archive.

 

Interview with Mr. Hugh Gollner himself at Out-of-Print Archive.

 

List of magazines that are now coming to Out-of-Print Archive:

 

Amiga Action

Mega (some)

Mega Drive Advanced Gaming

Mega Tech (some)

PC Player

ST Action

Super Control

 

 

 

 

 

This is not the last official issue that will be released by Out-of-Print Archive, there are many more issues from Mr. Gollner coming and there are several other publishers/copyright owners that Out-of-Print Archive is in talks with to bring their back catalog to the fans (some represent a newer cover date than 1999).

 

 

[CGQuarterly]

Dude, that magazine looks awesome. Was it an independent mag in Europe?

 

I like your site a lot. I bookmarked it and am going to link to it on CGQ's Facebook page.

 

Chris

[triverse]

Dude, that magazine looks awesome.  Was it an independent mag in Europe?

 

I like your site a lot.  I bookmarked it and am going to link to it on CGQ's Facebook page.

 

Chris

 

Thanks man, we appreciate the post.  We are a younger site (we started on the 10 year anniversary of the Dreamcast and haven't slowed down since).  I will add you on the Out-of-Print Archive FB too so you and your fans can keep up with us a little easier.

[Classic Pac]

That is why I think Out-of-Print Archives is so great you get to see great magazines you never seen before.

[triverse]

 Just a quick update about Out-of-Print Archive.  We have recently made some changes to how the site is managed and also in how the site is accessed that are going to affect visitors.

 

 

The site address is the same as before but now the site is hosted on a much more stable server and the forums are now more streamlined and feature aesthetics better matching the main site.

 

The forum address is:

 

http://www.outofprintarchive.com/forum/index.php

 

Don't worry, if you were a member before, your account should still work without a problem, we just did some rearranging to the hosting.

 

 

Get ready for some rather big announcements that I spent most of today finalizing for Out-of-Print Archive, believe me, these announcements are rather interesting and definitely worth checking out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[triverse]

The May Back in Time special is now available.  Go check out what was in print magazines from 20 years ago.

 

 

 

 

 

[triverse]

Nintendo Magazine System #9 is now available at Out-of-Print Archive.

 

 

Check out the following reviews, and more, in NMS #9:

 

Alien 3 (Super Nintendo)

Bio Metal (Super Nintendo)

Super Star Wars (NES)

Pop 'N Twinbee (Super Nintendo)

 

 

 

[triverse]

This week we at Out-of-Print Archive have decided to continue with the special features, this time focusing on Future Publishing (too many mags to list but they are beyond a heavyweight in the publishing world).  Future Publishing is celebrating 25 years in publishing, no small feat and definitely one we wanted to help celebrate.

 

Check out the special insights from key members of the Future Publishing team such as the founder, Chris Anderson and former Group Publisher, Steve Carey.  

 

 

Please help us celebrate Future Publishing's magnificent history, and bright future, by checking out "Retro Future - Celebrating 25 years of Future Publishing" at Out-of-Print Archive today! 

 

 

[triverse]

 This week, we have announced working with Newsfield Publications to bring their complete catalog of gaming magazines to Out-of-Print Archive and are celebrating with the legal release of Raze #1.  News post copied from Out-of-Print Archive:

 

 

Out-of-Print Archive is proud to present another exclusive official release, Raze issue 1 from October 1990, with full permission from the publisher, Newsfield Publications.

 

Not only do we have permission to work on all Newsfield Publication's back catalogue of magazines (Zzap!64, Crash, Amtix!, The Games Machine, Raze, etc.), but we also have an interview with Roger Kean, the Publisher/Managing Director at Newsfield.

 

The Raze magazine was scanned by none other than Mort and edited by the OoPA team and is our first official Newsfield Publications release:

 

Raze 1 - october 1990 (UK)



 

In this first official release of Raze you will find the following online articles:

 

Devil Crash (PC Engine)

Rick Dangerous II (Amiga)

Future Basketball (Amiga)

Shadow Of The Beast 2 (Amiga)

 

We'd like to thank Roger Kean again for his generosity of allowing us to work on his back catalogue of magazines and for the time he took out of his schedule to talk to us about his publishing career.  We're sure you will enjoy both the magazine and interview as much as we did.  

[triverse]

 The Back in Time series over articles continues this month with a look back at June 1990, what were some popular games, consoles and/or characters 20 years ago?  Find out in the Back in Time feature at Out-of-Print Archive today!

 

 

 

 

'Back in Time' is a monthly feature where we look back at the classic video gaming magazines twenty years ago this month. This month it's June 1990 when Operation Wolf shot onto the Sega Master System with an excellent conversion of the hit coin-op, Sinclair User reached its 100th issue, magazines went soccer crazy to coincide with the World Cup in Italy and Zzap!64 Amiga published the first edition in an ongoing development diary of a Rowland brothers C64 game called Creatures...

 

 

[triverse]

Many updates have been made available at Out-of-Print Archive over the last few weeks including:

 

Enter Magazine #3 features user reviews of Pepper II and Pole Position among many other articles that made Enter unique.

 

 

Mean Machines #3 featured John Madden Football on Mega Drive, Tecmo World Wrestling on NES among many more.

 

 

Nintendo Magazine System #8 covering Mr Gimmick!, Batman Returns and Operation Logic Bomb.

 

 

[triverse]

Today is another huge step for us at Out-of-Print Archive as we are extremely proud to present you with our first official release of the iconic Zzap! magazine, thanks to the hard work of KiwiArcader who put a huge amount of time into this magazine.

This issue is being presented with full permission from Roger Kean and Newsfield Publications.

The featured articles are: Shoot 'em Up Construction Kit feature by Jonathan Hare from Sensible Software.

Reviews for Platoon, Matchday II, Deflektor as well as Hunter's Moon, all of which are for the Commodore 64.

 

Zzap64! 34 - february 1988 (UK)



 

Shoot 'em Up Construction Kit (C64)

Platoon (C64)

Matchday II (C64)

Deflektor (C64)

Hunter's Moon (C64)

[triverse]

A lot of people have been waiting for this one and today it's finally here. we are talking about the final published issue of the Official Sega Saturn Magazine.

The online articles for this week are the following:

An interview with Bizarre Creations about Metropolis Street Racer for the Dreamcast.

A big special report on the JAMMA 1998 show, as well as previews on Black Matrix and Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter.

 

 

Official Sega Saturn Magazine 37 - november 1998 (UK)

 

 

interview with Bizarre Creations about Metropolis (Dreamcast)

JAMMA 1998 show (Arcade)

Black matrix (Sega Saturn)

Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter (Sega Saturn)

 

The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clicking here.

[triverse]

Missed the update for the 13th but here it is:

 

This Friday we return to the glory days of the Super Nintendo with the latest issue of Super Play.

The start of our selection of online features with a look at the various Special F/X Chips for the SNES.

Followed by the first in a new series of features about living in Tokyo called Tokyo Blues.

Then we have the review for Super Star Wars and we end with an interview with David Darling from CodeMasters about the Game Genie.

 

Super Play 4 - february 1993 (UK)

 

 

interview with David Darling of CodeMasters on the GameGenie

Japanese feature: Tokyo Blues

Super Star Wars Review

Special F/X chips feature

 

The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clicking here.

 

And today, August 20th, brings us:

 

This week, we have CVG #171 featuring a cover story on the Ultra 64 (later renamed N64, or Nintendo 64 depending on your taste), inside brings coverage of Shoshinkai Show 1995 along with many reviews and previews of games that later went on to be extremely popular with gamers.

 

The online features include the N64 coverage, reviews of Sega Rally on Sega Saturn, Namco Museum Vol. 1 on PSOne and Ridge Racer Revolution also on PSOne.  CVG #171 is full of varied reviews and previews covering many systems, definitely an issue you don't want to miss.

 

CVG #171 February 1996

 

 

Shoshinkai Show 1995 Coverage

Sega Rally Review

Namco Museum Vol 1 Review

Ridge Racer Revolution Review

 

The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clicking here.

[triverse]

 

 

Vivid Images went back in time with their adventure game Time Machine, The Games Machine magazine bowed out with its last issue, Amstrad launched their new GX4000 games console, and a sleek black 16-bit gaming console was about to hit the UK. That was September 1990 and this is 'Back in Time', our monthly feature where we look back at the classic video gaming magazines twenty years ago this month.

 

As usual, the feature comes with a selection of articles that were chosen from four of the magazines covered and are available to read online:

CU Amiga's review of Corporation on the Amiga, YC's review of Time Machine on the C64, Zero's review of Operation Stealth on the Atari ST, and S (The Sega mag) special on the Mega Drive.

 

Corporation (Amiga)

Time Machine (Commodore 64)

Operation Stealth (Atari ST)

introducing the Mega Drive (hardware feature)

 

Read the full August Back in Time Special.

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This week we return with another official Out-of-Print Archive release with the blessing of Hugh Gollner and Maverick Magazines.

In this premiere issue of Mega Drive Advanced Gaming Magazine we look forward to the arrival of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with a special feature talking about what was known about the game at the time.

Besides this special feature we also have three hand picked Mega Drive reviews ligned up for you this week.

We start with Cadash, followed by the classic horror game Splatterhouse 2, and we finish of with the little known gem called The Flaming Dodgeball Kid.

 

 

Mega Drive Advanced Gaming 1 - september 1992 (UK)



 

 

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 feature (Mega Drive)

Cadash (Mega Drive)

Splatterhouse 2 (Mega Drive)

The Flaming Dodgeball Kid (Mega Drive)

 

The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clicking here.

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The full complete set of Maximum Magazine is available now at http://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/maximum.html

 

Also, this week in the Back in Time feature:

 

 

"Three brand new magazines were launched, arcade hit Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road raced all over the major computer formats, the Commodore 64 re-launched in console form and Wonderland proved a wonderful hit..."  That was October 1990 and this is 'Back in Time', our monthly feature where we look back at the classic video gaming magazines twenty years ago this month.

 

As usual, the feature comes with a selection of articles that were chosen from four of the magazines covered and are available to read online:

Commodore Format's feature on the C64GS, Amstrad Computer User's feature on the new range of Amstrad Plus machines, CU Amiga's review of Wonderland on the Amiga and The One's review of Powermonger on the Amiga.

 

C64GS (Hardware feature)

Power Plus (Hardware feature)

Wonderland (Amiga)

Powermonger (Amiga)

 

Read the full October Back in Time Special.

[triverse]

 

We return to more Nintendo love this week with issue 10 of Nintendo Magazine System.

As always this magazine is kindly submitted by Mort.

As you might expect by now, we have yet again selected four atricles which serve as a nice preview for this issue:

The first ones are Super Bomberman and WWF Royal Rumble, which both are on the Super Nintendo. Followed by Megaman 4 on the NES. And the final review for this week is Dr. Franken 2 which is a game for the Game Boy.

 

Nintendo Magazine System 10 - JULY 1993 (UK)



 

Super Bomberman (SNES)

WWF Royal Rumble (SNES)

Megaman 4 (NES)

Dr. Franken 2 (Game Boy)

 

The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clicking here.

[triverse]

EMAP Special on Out-of-Print, follow the legacy of the video game magazine publishing EMAP made available:

 

http://www.outofprintarchive.com/articles/features/out-of-print/emap.html

 

 

[triverse]

Many people have been waiting and asking about the next issue of N64 Magazine.

And today the day is finally here.

With this issue we look back at a couple of games that have become timeless classics in their own right.

The first one being the one of a kind Blast Corps, followed by the one of the greatest racing games ever:Waverace 64. We also look forward to Doom 64, And we end this week with a special feature named: Nintendo - From cards to carts which includes an interview with none other than Shigeru Miyamoto.

 

 

N64 Magazine 2 - may 1997 (UK)



 

 

Blast Corps

Waverace 64

Doom 64

Nintendo - from cards to carts

Shigeru Miyamoto on the Nintendo 64

 

The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clicking here.

Edited December 11, 2010 by triverse

[triverse]

We go back a couple of generations from last week’s update and find ourselves right in the middle of the early 16-bit boom with Mean Machines number 5.

We start off with an early look at the Super Famicom with a feature detailing its launch games.

Then we proceed with a look at the slowly aging NES with a review for Gremlins 2. On the Mega Drive side we focus on two games: the first one being Castle of Illusion, while the second one is a bit of a forgotten gem, namely Crack Down.

 

 

Mean Machines 5 - february 1991 (UK)



 

 

Super Famicom feature

Gremlins 2 (NES)

Castle of Illusion (Mega Drive)

Crack Down (Mega Drive)

 

 

The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clicking here.

 

 

As always: Enjoy!

[triverse]

Missed an update so here it is first:

 

 

 

 

 

 

We continue our 'Back in Time' monthly feature where we look back at the classic video gaming magazines twenty years ago this month. This month it's January 1991 when Amiga gamers were held 'Captive' with Tony Crowther's latest Amiga release, Navy Seals infiltrated the C64 in cartridge form, the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles impressed with its colourful Speccy version and John Madden began his domination of Football games on the Mega Drive...

 

From the magazines featured in the article, we have chosen four reviews to read online: the 'C&VG Hit!' review of John Madden Football on the Mega Drive, Your Sinclair's 'Megagame' review of Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles on the Spectrum, Zzap!64's sizzling review of Navy Seals on C64 cartridge and Amiga Action's review of Captive on the Amiga.

 

As usual, the feature comes with a selection of articles that were chosen from four of the magazines covered and are available to read online:

 

John Madden's American Football (Mega Drive)

Navy Seals (Commodore 64)

Captive (Amiga)

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (ZX Spectrum)

 

Read the full December Back in Time Special.

 

 

 

[triverse]

And here is the most recent update:

 

 

 

 

 

After a 5 month hiatus, we return to planet Saturn with the second issue of the official Sega Saturn Magazine.

Our selection of preview articles focusses on features instead of reviews this time. We start of with one of the best lightgun games ever created with Virtua Cop, we then follow up with Firestorm: Thunderhawk 2. From there we move on to the game that redifined fighing games and put the bar as high as it could go at the time, namely Virtua Fighter 2, and the final feature focusses on Capcom's X-Men Children of the Atom.

 

 

Official Sega Saturn Magazine 2 - december 1995 (UK)



 

 

Virtua Cop (Sega Saturn)

Firestorm: Thunderhawk 2 (Sega Saturn)

Virtua Fighter 2 (Sega Saturn)

X-Men Children of the Atom (Sega Saturn)

 

 

The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clicking here.

 

 

As always: Enjoy!

 

 

 

[triverse]

Rather big announcement getting made real soon over on http://www.outofprintarchive.com Could it be a bird unveiling or something totally different? Keep an eye on Out-of-Print Archive and find out!

[high voltage]

Someone here wanted me to scan the UKs Sony/PSX Pro magazines, but after doing TeleMatch I quite had enough of scanning.

Maybe you guys can put those up on Out of print soon?

 

On a different note, I love RAZE, that was an excellent magazine, shame it only lasted 12 issues. Glad I still got all of those.

Game Zone was very good too, I got 10 out of the 12 released.

 

Arcade, a good Future Publishing title, again short lived (24 issues)

 

Loved Ultimate, crazy magazine:

 

I also have 4 issues of Video Gamer from Future Publishing, did they release more? I never found any more.

 

Maybe you can do Mr. Dreamcast, I only found issue 1, there's supposed to be 6 issues.