Advertisement Gallery UPDATE

[digitalpress]

A new gallery has been installed onto the Digital Press website, it's the "gallery of advertisements", which promises to be the single largest archive of magazine adverts this side of the time-space continuum.

It's starting small but now that the pieces are in place, it's "go time".

http://www.digitpress.com/art.htm

SPECIAL THANKS to Jim "TheVideoGameMaster" for his time dedicated to scanning in the initial gallery you see here.

If YOU would like to contribute (all it really takes is a scanner, some old magazines, and time), please PM or email me at digitalpress@email.com

Enjoy!

[digitalpress]

A new gallery has been installed onto the Digital Press website, it's the "gallery of advertisements", which promises to be the single largest archive of magazine adverts this side of the time-space continuum.

It's starting small but now that the pieces are in place, it's "go time".

http://www.digitpress.com/art.htm

SPECIAL THANKS to Jim "TheVideoGameMaster" for his time dedicated to scanning in the initial gallery you see here.

If YOU would like to contribute (all it really takes is a scanner, some old magazines, and time), please PM or email me at digitalpress@email.com

Enjoy!

[brykasch]

Is their a reason the stuff is down? I wish I had a scanner I could ad a ton of em from my old comics .

[Slipdeath]

looks good

[Half Japanese]

It's down for me too, typical 404 error. If I get access to a scanner, I'll try to nab some others.

[digitalpress]

MAJOR update this weekend. If you haven't checked this out yet, please do!

Note: the page has been taken down a few times because it's been getting LEECHED - I'll likely have to resort to what we did with the emulation stuff, moving them over to our mirror site. Or get a T1 line outta here :)

http://www.digitpress.com/art.htm

[sniperCCJVQ]

Any news about the FTP Joe ?

[Flack]

I just got a new scanner for xmas and have a bunch of old computer related magazines sitting around the garage (mostly C64/Amiga related, but a few older gaming ones). I'll see what treasure I can find out there.

[digitalpress]

Any news about the FTP Joe ?

Yes. You can FTP here:

server: ftp01.powweb.com/www/d/digitalpress/ftp
userid: dpforum
password: dpforum

[sniperCCJVQ]

Ah! finally, thanks ! :D

[hydr0x]

mhhh i have loads of old adds, but mainly german ones, also interested in those??

[digitalpress]

mhhh i have loads of old adds, but mainly german ones, also interested in those??

Actually that would be very cool!

[digitalpress]

SIGNIFICANT update this past weekend.

If you haven't checked this out yet, please do. It's just SO cool to look at, even if you don't pore over every ad. Just having the thumbnails laid out on screen will bring back some memories.

I added a 3DO gallery this weekend as well, with advertisements for two games that were never released!

Check it out, I mean it.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

[Lady Jaye]

I know it's not a game ad per se, but I have an old TI 99/4a ad dating from 1983. I could scan it for the site, if you're interested.

[Qixmaster]

i have an assload of NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy ads i'll scan once i get my hands on that scanner at target. I'd be more then happy to send em and put em here. Anyone else out there collect ads? I know o2williams does since i traded him a bunch of old comic books with ads in them. I am always looking for NES ads that i don't have. In an ideal world i would like to frame each ad and place them in a huge room... but since i don't live in an ideal world, good luck with that i guess.. maybe when i have tons of money i will.

[Keir]

Are you hot enough to play with Journey?
LOL That's the best.

[Flack]

I have years and years and years worth of C64 mags. I've been looking for a reason to go through them "one last time" before tossing them out, and this could be the project for that!

A second plus, my wife and son are out of town this week. 7 days of guilt free computer/gaming time!

[sniperCCJVQ]

I know it's not a game ad per se, but I have an old TI 99/4a ad dating from 1983. I could scan it for the site, if you're interested.

Sarah, i upload the VCD of the Mnet show for Joe last weekeend.

[digitalpress]

Anyone interested in scanning some ads, you can use the FTP information above. Please let me know that you've put something up there so I can grab it - also let me know how you'd like to be listed as a contributor (see the adverts page as it is today for a visual).

Thanks, all.

[KJN]

I have years and years and years worth of C64 mags. I've been looking for a reason to go through them "one last time" before tossing them out
You mean before you sell them.

[NE146]

I got a couple of scanned ads. But I aint the best scanner and they're not the best quality. That ok? :P

Like here's one that I've thrown about on and off that's been here on my hard drive for a couple years (resized smaller of course)

http://www.users.qwest.net/~userid946/Apollo.JPG

[rbudrick]

Joe, this is such an awesome idea! It's such a natural thing for Digital Press to do...it's almost like "Why hasn't this been thought of years ago!?" Glad you did!

-Rob

[Flack]

I have years and years and years worth of C64 mags. I've been looking for a reason to go through them "one last time" before tossing them out
You mean before you sell them.

If you think there's a market for them, I might try it!

I wish I had thought of that before destroying the magazine I just scanned in. Damn gluey spines.

Joe, 55 ads coming your way. All PC gaming ads from 1995.

If anyone else out there has old magazines and a scanner, jump in! It was a blast looking through all these old ads. Now it's off to the garage to find some more!!!

[hydr0x]

mhhh i have loads of old adds, but mainly german ones, also interested in those??

Actually that would be very cool!

cool :) i'll see what i can do, i have thousands of ads though as i'm collecting game mags, any prefered era? my mags are mainly 16-bit+ though

[digitalpress]

I've temporarily taken the ads down as the page was being leeched big-time last night (you may have noticed the terrible lag in the site and forum). I may move it to one of the mirror servers - either way it will be back online tonight.

Flack, thanks for the scans! I'll have all of those in place this weekend. Awesome stuff.

[hydr0x]

hey joe here's a special scan for you ;)

http://mitglied.lycos.de/janbaart/cge.jpg

[digitalpress]

hey joe here's a special scan for you ;)

LOL

Though it's not really an advertisement, who could resist buying a Vectrex Imager... I wear it so well! (NOTE: it is this very reason why we brought Janice in to help with the auction the following show - she pulls that look off much better) :-P

Thanks!

[Flack]

Flack, thanks for the scans! I'll have all of those in place this weekend. Awesome stuff.

Glad you liked them. Tonight's uploads are about 20 ads from a 1988 issue of Compute!'s Gazette. There are ads for Wizardry, Wasteland, Pirates!, Ultima V, and Neuromancer, as well as general ads for Konami, Taito, Capcom, and Microprose. Go check em out, folks!

Edit: Holy crapola! After digging through my old box I found a bunch of my old computer magazines from when I was a kid. I just pulled out several issues of Enter magazine from 1983-1984. You think that Ultima V ad made me feel old? I just scanned in ZORK I.

More uploads coming soon!

Edit 2: Here's just a taste of how far we're going back now.

http://members.cox.net/robohara/c128.jpg

[Raedon]

So much kick ass.. one day you will have every kick ass VG TV commercial to I hope :)

[digitalpress]

I would like to draw your attention once again to the now MIGHTY DP advertisement gallery. Over 150 new scans were added today, bringing the total up to somewhere around 500.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/index.htm

In particular, I'd like you to check out two areas of this virtual museum that simply look even cooler than the already cool bits around them.

1. click on "Misc 8-bit Era" (the topmost link), then select page 3 from the bottom of that gallery. Remember those "Which Player Is About To... ?" ads from Atari promoting their arcade-to-home ports? Great, great stuff.

2. click on the "Computers (newer)" link, then select page 2 from the bottom of that gallery. About halfway down the page are the SSI adverts. I just love the artwork on these, and they look particularly awesome when they're all grouped together in this wing.

Enjoy!

[TRM]

Joe,

I have a crap load of NES scans that I am going to scanning for my own website. They already are on my site, though I just want to make them full size. So anyway, I'll send them your way when I get them done.

If anyone else wants to send me some NES scans, that is cool as well. I don't want to step on DP's toes with this, so hopefully I am not.

[digitalpress]

Joe,

I have a crap load of NES scans that I am going to scanning for my own website. They already are on my site, though I just want to make them full size. So anyway, I'll send them your way when I get them done.

If anyone else wants to send me some NES scans, that is cool as well. I don't want to step on DP's toes with this, so hopefully I am not.

Looks good Dave but defnitely way too small for me to use. Your links are the size of my thumbnails! If you've got them bigger/better quality please let me know where to grab 'em - I'll be happy to credit you and/or your site in our advert museum pages as well.

[TRM]

Looks good Dave but defnitely way too small for me to use. Your links are the size of my thumbnails! If you've got them bigger/better quality please let me know where to grab 'em - I'll be happy to credit you and/or your site in our advert museum pages as well.

Yes sir, just a few days ago I had wanted to rescan them in fullsize as opposed to this small size. Now since you need them as well as myself, I'll have a reason to get off my butt and rescan them.

Your advert gallery is looking really nice. One mistake though, the Action 52 game listed in the Genesis section is actually for the NES.

[PongHit]

I would like to draw your attention once again to the now MIGHTY DP advertisement gallery. ...

WOW, what an awesome collection of ads! I love it. But, I have a correction for this scan from the 2600 section:

http://www.digitpress.com/dpsightz/adverts/atari2600/atari2600_german.jpg

... this is NOT a German ad -- it's Dutch.

-PongHit

[Mayhem]

You interested in C64 adverts Joe? I have every Zzap!64 magazine (90 issues) scanned here from which I can pick out all the advert pages. This could run big ;)

[digitalpress]

You interested in C64 adverts Joe? I have every Zzap!64 magazine (90 issues) scanned here from which I can pick out all the advert pages. This could run big ;)

Certainly! You can choose the more interesting ones if you'd like, and let me know when they're up on the FTP site. Thanks again, Mat.

[digitalpress]

UPDATE.

Over 250 more advertisements added to the gallery today!

There are new ones in just about every system sub-gallery, but I'd like to call your attention to two areas that have the most additions:

1. The TurboGrafx-16 gallery, which also consists of TurboDuo (and hopefully soon PC Engine/Duo) ads, is up to two pages including some very cool two-pagers. Check out Splatterhouse and Devil's Crush. Great stuff.

2. Courtesy of TRM, the NES gallery has been boosted by another 30 ads. Lots and lots of memories in there.

Go take a peek. Enjoy!

[digitalpress]

UPDATED TODAY!

Over 150 new advertisement scans were added to the gallery, across the board but significant updates in the Atari 2600, "Multi 8-Bit" and "Older Computers" sections.

Great fun, check it out.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

[digitalpress]

MORE BIG UPDATES!

If you think this project has died down at all, you'd be dead wrong. Our scanners have been busy busy busy... check out the advertisement gallery, now over 1200 ads big!

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

[digitalpress]

Got CD-i?

We do.

A recently acquired payload of CD-i magazines from the UK produced a cornucopia of rare CD-i advertisements (at least to us here in the states). I've scanned every last one and added them to the gallery.

The gallery is nearly 2000 pages now. Is there a larger archive of video gaming advertisements on the 'net?

Here's the CD-i bit, specifically.

http://videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/cdi/index.htm

[digitalpress]

UPDATED today with over 300 new ads!

I've lost count, there are close to 2000 advertisements in total in this immense gallery. It's really fun just scanning through the pages of your favorite system. If you haven't checked it out lately, give it a look!

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts

[o2william]

FYI Joe, people who have Norton Internet Security 2004 and enable ad-blocking won't be able to view the ad gallery's navigation menu because the source file is located in a directory called /adverts. Norton blocks all files coming from directories called /ads, /adverts, /adv, and anything resembling "advertising" or "advertisement".

I had the same problem on the advertisements gallery on my web site. I changed the directory name to /adz and now it works.

[digitpress Jim]

A new gallery has been installed onto the Digital Press website, it's the "gallery of advertisements", which promises to be the single largest archive of magazine adverts this side of the time-space continuum.

It's starting small but now that the pieces are in place, it's "go time".

http://www.digitpress.com/art.htm

SPECIAL THANKS to Jim "TheVideoGameMaster" for his time dedicated to scanning in the initial gallery you see here.

If YOU would like to contribute (all it really takes is a scanner, some old magazines, and time), please PM or email me at digitalpress@email.com

Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

When I first started scanning in video game ads back in December, I promised you all the single largest archive of magazine adverts this side of the time-space continuum. I hate to sound arrogant, but I truly believe that we (Digital Press) have one of, if not the largest selection of VG Ads on the web :D

I LOVE and enjoy every second of getting to scan in these awesome VG Ads, but without with the support of Joe and the many of you that have been generous enough to scan in your ads as well, this section would have never been possible.

A big big thanks to Joe my man and the many of you who are credited, for all your efforts and support. I have thousands of more Ads to scan in, so please don't think by a long shot that we are finished ;) Please be sure to check out all the new updates every week. Thanks again to everyone who has helped me and for all of you out there who have shown such a huge interest in the archive. This is such a huge honor for me and I hope you all continue to enjoy the Advert Gallery. Thanks and God Bless :D :D :D

digitpress Jim

[gleavepaul]

Isnt it breaking copywrite laws copying parts of mags? I know there old but still wont some publishers get arsey? :eek 2:

Anyway i like it!

[digitalpress]

Isnt it breaking copywrite laws copying parts of mags? I know there old but still wont some publishers get arsey? :eek 2:

Anyway i like it!

This question has come up quite a few times in the past, and the answer is much like the one for using screenshots of games. You have to understand first that game manufacturers WANT you to use their images, and advertisements such as the ones you see here aren't technically magazine content, they're game publisher property.

[Mayhem]

Which reminds me, still slowly going through a load of C64 ads for you Joe, so expect them.... sometime! :P

[digitalpress]

Big update to the advertisement gallery today, over 100 new scans were added to various sections, the largest update being to the PlayStation advertisement gallery, with 25 new scans.

Go check it out!

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts

[digitalpress]

BIG update this morning.

Check out the PlayStation section in particular, for a dose of early Sony goodness.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

[digitalpress]

Another hundred or so advertisements were added to the gallery this weekend, courtesy of "digitpress Jim" Combs. You'll discover most of the new ones in the PlayStation section which in itself has nearly 200 classic print ads!

Have fun.

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/index.htm

[digitalpress]

In case you didn't realize we're still at this...

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

Over 150 new ads scanned and loaded today. Most of the new stuff can be found in the 8-bit computer and PlayStation sections. Quite a few in the Genesis and Sega CD sections as well.

[digitalpress]

Updated again this weekend!

http://www.videogamearchive.com/dpsightz/adverts/

Over 100 new ads scanned and loaded. Extra special thanks to my wife, mrs. digitalpress, for this set. Her first ever DP project - check out the new CD32 advertisement gallery, she did all of those scans.