WTB/WTT: Old game magazines, flyers, newsletters, catalogs, etc.

Video game magazines are heavy, ugly, and take up a lot of space. They also affect your sex life and could possibly cause cancer. For these reasons and many more, you should give, trade and/or sell your old video game magazines to me!

Also, in all seriousness, I use these as a "reference library" of sorts for the strange and wonderful research I do, so you will be putting your old garbage to good use and bettering mankind.

What I'm Looking For

My main focus right now is getting as much material from the 8 and 16-bit console eras as I can, so let's say...1987-1997, give or take. I'm also interested in material printed both before and after these years, and would certainly take them if you have them, but more than likely I will not buy them unless it's a deal I'd be stupid to pass up, especially if it's in one huge bulk.

You may notice a lack of computer game magazines in my Want List below. This does not necessarily mean I'm only interested in console mags, it just means that I'm primarily focused on them for the time being. I may be interested in your computer mags too.

Countries of Origin

I am currently focusing on material printed in the United States, mainly because I can only read English and most of the good UK-published stuff is already scanned online. That said, one of my secret hopes is that there is a crazy person in the U.S. who has imported every issue of Edge and wants to get rid of them. If you are that crazy person, please let me know! I'd also be interested in non-English console mags, particularly from the 8-bit era.

Flyers, One-Sheets, Press Releases, Books, Mailers, Catalogs, Etc.

In addition to magazines, I'm looking for any other printed material related to video games. Did you fill out those information cards in the backs of magazines and ask for more material from its advertisers? Did you attend old CES or E3 shows and fill your bags with paper? Did you run an arcade, or work for a game studio that got business publications sent to it? Did you work for a newspaper or magazine and keep things that were sent to you? How about old mailorder catalogs? FuncoLand price sheets? Weird little 'zines? Let me know, I'm probably interested!

Shipping Magazines Is Expensive And Also Dumb

Yes, I'm aware.

How To Contact Me

Either reply here, send me a private message, or just email me directly at fcifaldi@gmail.com.

Want List

Below is an incomplete list of magazines I am currently looking for. If it's not on here, that doesn't mean I don't want it! Even if I already have an issue, I may be interested in getting another copy either as an upgrade (many of mine are rough/missing pages/etc.) or as trade material.

Beyond Gaming
(Ultimate Games Club "magazine"/catalog)

1-3
Anything past #4 that may exist

Diehard GameFan

(see "GameFan")

duoWorld

(all)

EGM2

4 (Vol. 1 iss. 4, October, 1994)
7 (Vol. 1 iss. 7, January, 1995)
32-34 (February-April, 1997)
36 (June, 1997)
44-46 (February-April, 1998)

Electronic Game Player

1-4

Electronic Games (1981)

(most issues; hoping for a lot/collection)

Electronic Games (1992)

3 (December, 1992)
10-16 (July, 1993-January, 1994)
18-19 (March-April, 1994)
21-34 (June, 1994-July, 1995)

Electronic Gaming Monthly
(note: would gladly take replacement copies of most early issues not listed here, mine are rough!)

0 (1989 Buyer's Guide)
1 (Nintendo Preview, Mega Man 2 cover)
2 ("16-Bit Gaming Explodes")
3 (Fabio)
7 (Top Score)
8 (TurboGrafx-16 vs Genesis)
11 (The Mafat Conspiracy)
12 (Ninja Gaiden 2)
34 (Super Double Dragon)
104 (March, 1998, cover unknown)
116 (March, 1999, Mario Party cover)
Most issues past 126, though these are lower priority

Electronic Gaming Retail News

(all issues!)

Flux

1-3

Game Developer

(most EARLY issues, 1994-1999ish)

Game Informer

Fall, 1991
November/December, 1991
May/June, 1993
September/October, 1993
(most issues 1994-2006)

Game Player's (1989-1991)

Vol. 1 iss. 1-6 (April/May 1989-December 1989)
Vol. 2 iss. 7 (July, 1990)
Vol. 2 iss. 10 (October, 1990)
Vol. 3 iss. 3-5 (March-May, 1991)

Game Player's Guide to Nintendo

Winter, 1988 (only issue?)

Game Player's Nintendo Buyer's Guide

Vol. 1 iss. 1, 1988

Game Player's Nintendo Guide

(most issues)

Game Player's Sega Genesis Strategy Guide

(all 1991-1992 issues)

Game Players Sega Guide!

(all)

Game Player's Strategy Guide to Game Boy Games

Vol. 1 iss. 2 (September/October, 1990)
Vol. 1 iss. 3 (November/December, 1990
Vol. 2 iss. 1 ((January/February, 1991)
Vol. 2 iss. 3-4 (May/June-July/August, 1991)

Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games

Vol. 1 all issues (if they exist?)
Vol. 2 all issues
Vol. 3 iss. 2-3 (April/May-June/July, 1990)
Vol. 3 iss. 5-6 (October-November, 1990)
Vol. 4 iss. 2
Vol. 4 iss. 5
Vol. 4 iss. 8
Vol. 4 iss. 11

Game Players (1993-1996)
(aka Game Players Nintendo/Sega, Game Players Sega/Nintendo)

49-53
57-61
63
65-66
68
72-73
77
79
81-84
86

GameFan

1-5
7-9
11-23
26
28-32
34-39
42
44
64-78
81-84
85-87

GamePro

1-3 (May/June, July/August, September/October, 1989)
24 (Vol. 3 iss. 7)
50
53
61
70
73
79-80
Most past #103

GamePro specials & one-shots

(most, particularly 16 Bit Video Gaming or Handheld Video Games)

Gamers' Republic

(most)

High-End

1-3 (all)

Intelligent Gamer

(most)

Mega Play

7 (November/December, 1991)
All 1994 & 1995 issues
1992 Sega Genesis Buyer's Guide

Next Generation / Next Gen

1-12
15-19
22
25-27
30-35
37-39
41-45
47-56
(becomes Next Gen)

Nintendo Fun Club News

(all issues)

Nintendo Power

(looking for upgrades for earliest issues)
68-74
76
78-79
82
91-97
99
(most past 100)

Polygon

(all)

Sega

(miscellaneous 1987-1989 newsletters/magazines)

Sega Visions

(all 1990-1992 issues)
20-23 (August/September, 1994-February/March, 1995)
25 (September, 1995)

Silicon

(all)

Super Gaming

(pretty much all)

Super NES Buyer's Guide

Vol. 1 iss. 2 (July 1992) (mine is missing its cover!)
Vol. 3 iss. 5-Vol. 4 iss. 6 (September, 1993-November, 1994)

Tips & Tricks

(all 1994-1997ish issues)

Turbo Edge

(all)

TurboForce

1-2
4

TurboPlay

(all)

Ultimate Gamer

1-3 (July, September, October, 1995)
6 (January, 1996)

Ultra Game Players

91-92
94-97
99
101-102
104-111

Video Games & Computer Entertainment

June, 1989
July, 1989
September, 1989 (upgrade, missing cover)
February, 1990
February, 1992
January, 1993
February, 1993
March, 1993

VideoGames

Vol. 6 iss. 6, June, 1994
April, 1995-January, 1996
March-July, 1996
September, 1996

 

Which ones?

 

and furthermore: on which website are they available ?

 

Can you clarify? Are you asking which UK magazines are scanned? If so, most of the scans I have came from the Zzap Zzuperstore:

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzuperstore.html

I guess that's not "online" as much as "for sale," but the point is I already have access to the information that's in them, so I'm not necessarily looking to buy the real thing.

EDIT: Incidentally, the DVDs are great, and you should pick them up if you're interested.

 

Yeah I was asking which ones were scanned, To be honest you're missing out on some of the best magazines.

Mean Machines (before it became Mean Machines Sega)
Total - Divides opinion. Not in the same league as Mean Machines, CGTC or Maximum.
MegaTech
Complete guide to consoles volumes I-V
Nintendo Magazine System
Maximum (probably a bit late for your interest though)

You can get some here for download:

http://www.outofprintarchive.com/magazine_catalogue_UK.html

 

Mean Machines is there, you must have missed it. I have most of the early Nintendo Magazine System issues (plus the last 3 years before it went to Future, since I was writing for it at the time), and a scan of what is probably the first Complete Guide to Consoles.

I'm not familiar with MegaTech (but will look into it), and forgot about Total!, which would indeed be nice to have.