Every single issue of Computer Gaming World up for download

[sgc_meltdown]

http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=0&pub=0&id=500
high res scans but all pdfs unfortunately

Well, after almost exactly a year and a half and 33,544 additional scanned pages, the CGW scanning project is now complete. Every single issue of the magazine's 25 year run is available online, from #1.1 in November 1981 to #268 in November 2006. The total, including the two issues of Computer Game Forum: 40,982 pages!

edit: hit the motherload
http://archive.org/details/computermagazines

Some covers:
http://s17.postimage.org/aivhsstzh/cgw_113_01.jpg
http://s17.postimage.org/5lhx7os0d/cgw_112_01.jpg
http://s17.postimage.org/c0gy4cyq5/cgw_125_01.jpg
http://s17.postimage.org/nquvlqril/cgw_87_01.jpg
http://s17.postimage.org/hq28lsb7x/cgw_137_01.jpg
http://s17.postimage.org/y3m84xrd9/cgw_128_01.jpg
http://s17.postimage.org/bg6yysbt9/cgw_134_01.jpg

Here's that feature article at 150% zoom so you can tell what the quality for older issues is like
http://imgur.com/a/nMclH (magnify for actual size)

Advertisements are also intact

http://s16.postimage.org/8juvkdh7n/cgw5.jpg

 

[Angthoron]

Clicked on the link expecting a QTE romance casual simcity simulator as per "every single issue".

Instead there's this. What the heck, Meltdown?

/download

 

[sgc_meltdown]

What the heck, Meltdown?

don't typecast me bro

man looking at the cover of their very first issue from 1981 it seems we have come full circle

 

[Angthoron]

What the heck, Meltdown?

don't typecast me bro

Yeah, I know, just kiddin' of course. Y'know, gotta keep edgy and things. Besides, "Computer Gaming World" and "All Issues" on General Gaming often means a Bethesdian or BioWarean DLC.

man looking at the cover of their very first issue from 1981 it seems we have come full circle

Dunno if it's just me but img code seems broken for your pics. No biggie as copy&go works, but just so you know.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

img code seems broken for your pics

god fucking dammit


I thought I had found a reasonable substitute for imgur instead of photobucket, which has a bandwidth limit and is a right pain in the ass to upload shit to

 

[Gregz]

Is there a torrent of this floating around?

 

[taxalot]

This is absolutely awesome. Now to suck the website with HtTrack.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Great, I love old gaming magazines . They are high quality with text being text, not images .

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

I thought I had found a reasonable substitute for imgur instead of photobucket, which has a bandwidth limit and is a right pain in the ass to upload shit to

You need to post the real image URL (ending with .jpg) for the picture to show.

Example :

http://postimage.org/image/xydey5dqj (doesn't show)

http://s17.postimage.org/xydey5dql/cgw_112_01.jpg (shows)

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Don't read, it might bring a tear to your eyes when you realize that uneducated Kotaku bloggers with douchey attitudes who write click-baiting articles have replaced intelligent jounalists who had professionalism at heart.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

You need to post the real image URL

I have

quote the op post without javascript or just rightclick copy image location and you'll see

also your second image doesn't show up for me as well

shit. looks like my browser cache has been fooling me into thinking postimage didn't have the codex on their no-fly list

so what other quick and clean image upload options are there

Don't read, it might bring a tear to your eyes

http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1991&pub=2&id=82

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

also your second image doesn't show up for me as well

Shit, sorry then, browser caches are tools of evil.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Fuck, I just got a nostalgia for 80s .

Don't read, it might bring a tear to your eyes when you realize that uneducated Kotaku bloggers with douchey attitudes who write click-baiting articles have replaced intelligent jounalists who had professionalism at heart.

I'd say that the 80s issues should be a mandatory reading for every KKKodexer. Anyway, I've just read a review of Gunship. Very informative.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

80s

Look at what I just found

http://www.flickr.com/photos/numlok/sets/1394109/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78362749@N00/sets/1352356/

http://archive.org/details/computermagazines


oh sweet jesus look at this
http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection:cvg-magazine&sort=-publicdate&page=3

 

[Angthoron]

so what other quick and clean image upload options are there

Dunno if it's clean and quick, but I'd give the Russkie sites a try, they're still totally fine with NSFW categories and shit, as seen at, say, http://imgsrc.ru/

As I said though, never used it, no idea of the interface etc. Might work for your glorious/nefarious purposes though.

 

[Kane]

From the January 1999 issue:

Finish the games, then ship them. This trend could kill our industry

From the March 2001 issue:

RPGs are better than ever, but those old-school games rocked, too!

Page 133

January 2001 issue: budget developers are allocating to PC vs. console

Bioware: 50%, Bethesda: 50%, Microsoft: 50%

2001: The year the decline came.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

I'd give the Russkie sites a try, they're still totally fine with NSFW

I fear that due to probable need in allowing javascript for full functionality I will not be tendering the regular services of the colorful russian image storage fleet anytime soon

 

[mondblut]

It's... beautiful.

I want to go back to 1995.

Downloading the 136 issue, I used to own a copy - not a small deal in soviet russia!

 

[Sceptic]

Awesome, I've been waiting for him to fill in the blanks for years. Thanks meltdown.

#111 has a great collection of micro-reviews by Scorpia for what were pretty much all the major CRPG releases that existed at the time. It's particularly likely to get some raging since she shits on some Codex favorites

So nice to finally have digital copies of all these. Some of my hard copies were starting to fall apart.

 

[Don Peste]

Now I have something to do while I wait for the Summer Seal.

PS: I couldn't find a cover for Daikatana

PS2: I really want to cry.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

PS: I couldn't find a cover for Daikatana

http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1997&pub=2&id=155

also you guys have to check out this absolutely amazing preview of Trespasser

http://imgur.com/a/eHQSD

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Has anyone made a big torrent file or something that includes all of the issues instead of forcing us to manually right click and download all of them?

 

[Kane]

http://imgur.com/a/eHQSD

And it wasn't even a lie.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

also you guys have to check out this absolutely amazing preview of Trespasser

http://imgur.com/a/eHQSD

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CorpseZeb]

Great Scott! Also, they have some wonderful 8000 Plus Magazines! But... here's one useful tip. Just use a Free Download Manager and its "create batch download" option with a handy template:

http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_(*).pdf

... where (*) is a set range of 25-268 ("(*)" is variable assigned to the given range of numbers). Some earlier issues must be download "manually" due to non-enumerable file names.