GameScanner.org - I've scanned over 9000 HQ video game boxes

[gamescanner.org]

GameScanner.org - I have over 9000! high quality video game box scans!

Hello. I'm GameScanner. I'm long time reader, new time poster. I would like to introduce myself to DP. I run www.GameScanner.org a completely personal project of mine where I scan and retouch my own games boxes and covers. I started this project after being fed up with seeing too many bad images or scans on the web. I started this project in September 2004 on my b-day and it still keeps going.

Now the project is moving much slower as I'm very busy in my personal life. I do find however some time to scan a game or two. I cover now many systems, from NES to 360. All images were scanned and processed by myself, unless otherwise noted.

Also, you'll fin there a rather extensive Consloe Hardware section where I photograph items with my 4.0MP Kodak LS443 (decent enough) for your viewing pleasure.

I hope to break a 10,000 image mark some time in the next few months.

Please visit and browse my site and drop me a Line or two.

[Kid Ice]

I haven't seen that site before. It's awesome. I write a column for the DP newsletter called "Outside the Box" in which I review...err...game boxes. So for a box nut like me this is a treasure trove. Thanks for sharing, and please continue!

[Kitsune Sniper]

Hey, you're the guy that hangs around at VGMuseum, right?

Wasn't I supposed to send you some scans? :embarrassed:

[/b/tard]

I saw your site before when you posted it at nesworld. It's really cool and very impressive that you've scanned that many boxes yourself. Keep it up.

[gamescanner.org]

Hey, you're the guy that hangs around at VGMuseum, right?

Wasn't I supposed to send you some scans? :embarrassed:

Yes, I hang around VGM alot. I'm very impressed with DigitPress and I got to now one of the members, too. He has a old video games store in Chicago.

DP is the most comprehensive video game website I know, but again, lack of images, or quality images simply kills me.

One will ask me, how did I manage to get all those scans? Well, I rent a room 5ft x 8ft full of video games floor to ceiling, plus I used to be a EB Games store manager for two years. Then, when merger with Game Stop happened I decided to quit as the whole work expirience went down the drain. Salary too.

So I was (and am) persistent with scanning stuff all the time. One can poin out that I'm crazy!? Maybe. Fact is I want to preserve the artwork aspoect of video game industry.

I also scan old strategy guides in its entirety. One of them is for example Ogre Battle guide for SNES. But I don't distribute it.

[Trebuken]

Can you put all those pics in a .zip file for us? :)

Great pics. Will work great with GameCollector.

Later,
Trebuken

[Kitsune Sniper]

Can you put all those pics in a .zip file for us? :)

Great pics. Will work great with GameCollector.

Later,
Trebuken

Uh, dude, that's way too much to zip up. :\

[kainemaxwell]

Nice work on them, keep it up!

[Ed Oscuro]

Hate to rain on the parade, but scans THAT high-quality are just begging to be printed out and used for tidying up eBay auctions.

You've done great work, but people are reprinting game inserts so this is hurting the collector. I've had people ask me to scan covers so they can do exactly that, so that's not just a random guess on my part. Of course they can get the inserts elsewhere, but the more places that have inserts that high quality the more likely it is that Mr. Average will be tempted to print out a new insert.

Oh, and DOG-1 on the Famicom Disk System section is Tobidase Daisakusen, the Japanese version of 3-D Worldrunner.

[gamescanner.org]

Hate to rain on the parade, but scans THAT high-quality are just begging to be printed out and used for tidying up eBay auctions.

You've done great work, but people are reprinting game inserts so this is hurting the collector. I've had people ask me to scan covers so they can do exactly that, so that's not just a random guess on my part. Of course they can get the inserts elsewhere, but the more places that have inserts that high quality the more likely it is that Mr. Average will be tempted to print out a new insert.

Oh, and DOG-1 on the Famicom Disk System section is Tobidase Daisakusen, the Japanese version of 3-D Worldrunner.

Well Ed, that's always possible. Opportunists are everywhere. Nothing you or I can do about it. I took that under account too.

People steal my images and that's a fact, but there are more ppl out there that can benefit from it in other ways.

I could always watermark my images, but then it would have an adverse effect.

P.S. - tx for the tip.

[jajaja]

Can you put all those pics in a .zip file for us? :)

I guess that would be nearly 10gb of pics, so its too big to share like that :)

Great site btw!

[Trebuken]

Can you put all those pics in a .zip file for us? :)

I guess that would be nearly 10gb of pics, so its too big to share like that :)

Great site btw!

I was trying to be funny again...I gotta' stop it...doesn't come across well in text...

The website's bandwidth might get tested because of the downloading of all these hi-res images though...

Later,
Trebuken

[jajaja]

Hehe ye, unfortunatly its not always easy to pick up things like that in text :\ Indeed, the website does probly generate quite some traffic.

[Synergy]

Yes! Keep on scanning!

And anyone who gives the Warriors of the Eternal Sun guide book the time of day gets my support. 8-) Cool stuff.

[digitalpress]

Simply incredible. That's a very impressive body of work right there. May you live long and prosper, sir.

[B - Mark]

Hi gamescanner.org

My answer for his poll:
Yes! Keep on scanning!

I visited his site and i like it his work and i added for "my favorites" in my computer.

His work is very hepful to the Video Games History for the future.

Go for it.

His work is very good.