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Computer Gaming World: Free Downloads of the first 100 Issues (1981-2006)
cgw.filefront.com — Ziff-Davis opens up the vault, offering free PDFs of every issue from December 1981 to November 1992!
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- wimbet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Someone open up the GamePro vaults!
- TheDeceiver, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1and Xpert Gamer!!!
- JohnCrichton, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2and the Official PlayStation and the Xbox.
- shosterman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and Playboy!
Oops, I mean yes, those also.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is a great find, thanks! I used to obsess over this magazine, and Electronic Games. These will make great ebooks.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is going to be a great blast from the past. Kudos to Ziff-Davis for not hoarding something like this and actually doing something kind.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2But is there any chance of these getting offered up all in one zipped file?
- ivebeenhigh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1why would you need that? just use dTa or some other extension in Firefox and you can get the job lot in one go.
- envy860, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You mean T-Da (Turbo down them all)
- wonky73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So sweet.. The firs issue has a review of B-1 Nuclear Bomber. .I use to play that game.
- johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish they'd do the same with the old Gamefan magazines. Now that was a gaming magazine made up of just the fans - and then their parent company got bought out, and they got screwed.
- zukeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How about a torrent with all of 'em?
- johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah - if anyone knows of one, let us all know - would save us some time.
- dunezone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know what issues either have a review or preview of Doom?
Im guessing between spring of 93 and fall of 93.- JohnCrichton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sneak preview of Doom July 93, March 94, I'm looking for Myst myself.
- Qtip42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Well even though it isn't in the archive, everyone get the november issue because the batman case is in it :D yay!
- JohnCrichton, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1bury
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is filefront a ziffdavis compan?
- joeljkp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FileFront is part of 1up.com, just like CGW is. I'm assuming they're both part of ZD.
- arinte, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Well I looked a at a few of those issues and was very board. Open up the later stuff at least until 2004. They aren't going to lose business I am sure no one is ordering back issues.
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I've wanted to do this for YEARS with INFO magazine. (For the Commodore 64 and Amiga - I was the editor.) The problem is time. We published 49 issues, with an average of about 80 pages each. That's 4000 pages. And to make it really useful, it would need an index. It would take forever. :(
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Open up that project! If you're in a major city, you should be able to find volunteers to come help with the scanning, and you'll definitely find people to help index them once they're online.
- ewy99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1.Info magazine! I loved that one. Especially the april editions! Now THAT is a magazine that I would love to go through again. Ahh the memories!
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great article in issue 29, page 30 - introducing ISLAND OF KESMAI - the first online MMORPG.
"The leader of the pack in multiplayer (MP) games is CompuServe, and its newest, state-of-the-art game is Island of Kesmai.
IOK uses a type of pseudo-graphics that is best viewed by a terminal with cursor addressing...
A typical dungeon room is displayed like this:
[ ][ ][ ][ ]--[ ]
[ ]...........[ ]
[ ]..A.$....[ ][ ][ ][ ]
@@.>..B.........[ ]
[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]/....[ ]
...............[ ].....[ ]
In this scene, the '>' represents your player character, the 'A' a monster, the 'B' another player..." - Eth4n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anyone hear that CGW is changing their name to Windows gaming world or something?
- joeljkp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, it's true, and it's just as idiotic as it sounds.
The new name is "Games for Windows: The Official Magazine".
- joeljkp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, it's true, and it's just as idiotic as it sounds.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These are really awesome. It's amazing to see how much gaming has evolved in just 25 years
- psicom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Games for Windows is their new name (I believe).
- jstem1994, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...inside the issue were an overview of the Zork series...
Sweet...... - gromnie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool! Now if only 'they' would do this with both "Electronic Games" and "Video Games" magazine. And "Joystik."
- malice8691, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1This is really useless. Who wants to look up 10 year old games.
- freonchill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1whats going on for 2000-2006 ?
its just JPG of the cover - Shuey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A zip of the entire collection would be much nicer than manually downloading each individual issue :(
Anybody have a zip of the whole collection? - fmarkos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Torrent:
http://btjunkie.org/torrent?do=stat&id=37826367847ecb37d30c7aeac389691504e2b21740a4
Haven't d/l yet but it seems legit. - XCool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wooohooo! That's great news!
- MrCowley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good news. The games industry sure has evolved from a buch of beddroom programmers.
- dadrox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check this out... It's a link to a perl script that uses wget to batch download all of them!
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_frm/thread/ce231b2456efd856/74aac946cb3bf17f?lnk=st&q=wget+cgw&rnum=1#74aac946cb3bf17f
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