Anyone know where’s the best place to access scans of US PC Gamer since they were taken down from archive.org and retromags?
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Harcroft has been working on collecting all of the original Xbox DLC for like the last 15+ years. Still quite a few missing, but the list is on ConsoleMods and we‘re trying to boost visibility since there’s now tools to easily scan hard drives for the missing content.
https://twitter.com/OGX_Harcroft/status/1717749852954566963?s=20
While looking for footage of Magnavox Odyssey games on youtube, I found a channel called “Odyssey Now” that shows modern students playing early 1970s video games. I watched a few and noticed… these were filmed at a university near me… I was likely within walking distance while many of these were filmed (I even vaguely know someone in one of these). It‘s an interesting channel to check out if you’re curious about the first home video game console.
They even designed a few new games, complete with new game cards (which activate different circuits on the console to change the parameters controlling movement etc) and new plastic overlays to attach to the TV. In true Pittsburgh fashion, one of [these is a variant on the classic tennis setup themed around toxic waste](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0V70dx-fg).
There's another video where [they recreate a lost unreleased skiing game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8DCDOLpPxM). You sportheads would love [the stupidly complex football game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jySDf-e8uvI).
Is this what Frank Cifaldi of the Video Game History Foundation means when he says video game history starts in your back yard?
Wonder if anyone is working on research/preservation around those weird handhelds people can rent in prison. @frankfromthepodcast #frank
@“yeso”#p139125 I thought it was just phones that couldn't call out??
[edit:] I guess not. Though I did give the rights to some company to sell the android version of Gunhouse to a variety of places including prisons.
https://youtu.be/KfAaIcLfebY?si=YRJ5RuTQRub6jfLD
yeah it looks like at least in some state systems there‘s this separate eco-system of hardware and software. There’s some info out there about it, but idk about preservation efforts. Seems historical too, which made me think of the video game history foundation
@“deepspacefine”#p139124 found a channel called “Odyssey Now”
This was recently mentioned on Retronauts.
https://retronauts.com/article/2154/retronauts-episode-569-odyssey-2
A demo for a Resident Evil phone game has been preserved. Please watch the video so you can hear your sister‘s annoying boyfriend that wants to get into voice acting and is doing free stuff for his friend’s not great game doing quite the zombie voice.
https://twitter.com/RockmanCosmo/status/1729911268512010298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1729911268512010298%7Ctwgr%5E227c5f25791bf63dd1e335eed9f828f9c39cb568%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeextension.com%2Fnews%2F2023%2F11%2Fa-lost-demo-of-a-japan-exclusive-resident-evil-feature-phone-game-has-been-preserved
For lack of a better place to ask this:
Does anyone know much about the state of scanned guidebooks, particularly in Japanese? I’ve been on a tip of grabbing guides for these Japan-only games I’ve been enjoying, and don't know if (1) there is some common space people might be putting this stuff aside from archive.org and (2) whether there might be some fat Japanese torrent stack out there. My sense is that there isn’t, but I haven’t dug that deep to find sketchy spaces that might have it. I do have a scanner but wont likely unbind these things for the sake of scanning (though actually I’m gonna be moving so maybe its an alright act to sacrifice these rather than set back loose in the wild or cart them around).
@“MDS-02”#p144163 I‘ve been wondering this as well, not just for guide books but for manuals as well. Can you believe there aren’t any complete scans (or even just a collection of photos!) of 奇々怪界-月夜草子 (JP Pocky & Rocky 2) anywhere online? Not that I‘ve been able to find, at least – and I’ve done the digging, old hobbyist sites from 20 years ago and so on. Like you, I presume they must be out there somewhere, but not in any pockets that my familiarity with the English-speaking internet (or even my attempts at sifting through JPnet) can point me to. Here's another voice asking for a hero to swoop in.
Nice. These ones I was sad to read about in the article I posted above.
https://x.com/Protodude/status/1740173170513211884?s=20
@“Chopemon”#p142450 I like how her boots blend into the floor so you can‘t see where you’re going
@"MDS-02"#p144163 there are some groupings of things on archive.org, like the pc engine magazine collection, but I'm not sure there's someone specifically doing guides? I can ask frank.
[edit:] according to frank the efforts to do this are very scattered, so unfortunately there's no central place for this.
https://dragon.style/@kistaro/111706733652061084 It‘s perhaps not news but I’m just now learning that 3DS and Switch (and probably Vita, but not DS) retail physical games may have a shelf life, in a sense.
@“Funbil”#p144178 Here's 奇々怪界 月夜草紙 manual
From this cool jp game manual website
https://gamemanual.midnightmeattrain.com/
@“KennyL”#p147892 Perfect, thank you!!!
Very cool process on how to restore Satellaview games.
https://youtu.be/sDcrM706gws?si=uLz3JLFdmhfIdGDQ
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Footage from Monolith’s cancelled Nolan universe Batman game on PS360 that was the genesis of the Shadow of Mordor nemesis system:
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I guess here is the right place for this - Ross Scott, a gaming youtuber, spurred by the shutdown of The Crew, has coordinated a set of governmental petitions and reports to consumer protection agencies to try to attack the specific practice of terminating a game due to shutdown of servers.
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Initially, I’m sure many of us have the reaction of “this is just how it is,” and in the US there is not much to be done legally. But, he has spent a few months really digging into potential ways of attacking the practice, and this campaign seems about as legit of a swing as consumers will ever get.
Check out this video for his more full explanation, but the website is pretty self-guiding. Here’s his short version.
Please share and engage as you can; things change only when we act as if they might.
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