Old videogame magazines on archive.org

[Nebagram]

Here's virtually every CVG magazine (https://archive.org/details/computer-video-games-magazine?&sort=-downloads). There are loads more too which can be found here- https://archive.org/details/gamemagazines . There's even the DP mag on there! How legal this is is anyone's guess, but my guess would be 'not at all'.

[Tanooki]

I read somewhere they got some exemption to infringing since it's an archival service, but I very strongly doubt it's true. IF they encrypted it and wouldn't allow other than straight through the site use maybe, but you can download anything you like and many times in multiple formats.

[retroman]

Awesome site. First time I heard about this. Thanks

[Steve W]

I'm happy that I know about this. I had a lot of those Digital Press fanzines back in the day, but not the early ones. It's too bad they don't have many GamePro issues, especially from early on. I'd like to go through all of them just to read their extremely limited Atari console coverage. That's how I originally found out about games like Motor Psycho, Ninja Golf, and Tower Toppler and Basketbrawl before I had ever seen them in a store.

[gameofyou]

I love reading through some of those old magazines. It's like opening a time capsule. Thanks for sharing!

[Flojomojo]

Are the publishers around to complain about this, anyway? Seems to me their commercial value is way behind them, so what's the harm in putting them online for historical curiosity's sake?

I've noticed some conspicuous absences from Internet Archive. I'd love to see some vintage Macworld issues, for example, but last I checked, they're not there, presumably because of the current rights holders. Even though it's not like you can buy back issues from them.

[Gentlegamer]

I use http://www.retromags.com/

[TheRedEye]

Are the publishers around to complain about this, anyway? Seems to me their commercial value is way behind them, so what's the harm in putting them online for historical curiosity's sake?

I've noticed some conspicuous absences from Internet Archive. I'd love to see some vintage Macworld issues, for example, but last I checked, they're not there, presumably because of the current rights holders. Even though it's not like you can buy back issues from them.

A lot of absences are due to scanning magazines being completely thankless, boring, and extremely time-consuming labor, let's not forget.

[Tanooki]

It's also why there's a heap of old manuals not even typed up let alone scanned. I used to type some NES/GB manuals up when I was in college and it's a real time eater. I did the 80 page Final Fantasy manual floating around and that took I think the better part of the whole weekend to do and the Faxanadu one took awhile as well since I decided to get tricky and went all ASCII art remaking the 2 page spread of the world tree.