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Smash TV crashed into the arcades, Kick Off 2 kicked the other soccer games in to touch, Midnight Resistance impressed all and Italy 1990 topped the All Formats Top 20 Chart..." That was August 1990 and this is 'Back in Time' where we look at the classic video gaming magazines twenty years ago this month. To accompany our biggest edition of 'Back in Time' yet, with 20 magazine titles covered, we selected a handful of online articles from the magazines: Amiga Action's review ofKick Off II, The Games Machine's review ofVenus The Flytrap(Amiga), Computer & Video Game's review ofSmash TV(Arcade) and YC's review ofMurder(C64). |
| August 27, 2010 |
Back in Time feature - August 1990 |
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This week we return to witness the revamping of CVG being done under the watchful eye of Paul Davies. It would be another two issues before the metamorphosis was complete, but the shift in tone and focus is cristal clear with issue 171.
The online articles for this week are the following:
A special on the1995 Shoshinkai showat which the Nintendo 64 was unveiled for the first time.
A review for one of the greatest racing games ever made:Sega Rallyon the Sega Saturn, a review forNamco Museum Volume 1on the PSone, as well asRidge Racer Revolution.
The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clickinghere.
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| CVG 171 - february 1996 (UK) |
August 6, 2010 |
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This Friday we return to the glory days of the Super Nintendo with the latest issue of Super Play.
The start of our selection of online features with a look at the variousSpecial F/X Chipsfor the SNES.
Followed by the first in a new series of features about living in Tokyo calledTokyo Blues.
Then we have the review forSuper Star Warsand we end with an interview with David Darling from CodeMasters about theGame Genie.
The complete magazine can be downloaded in its full resolution by clickinghere. |
| August 13, 2010 |
Super Play 4 - february 1993 (UK) |
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Today is another huge step for us at Out-of-Print Archive as we are extremely proud to present you with our first official release of the iconic Zzap! magazine, thanks to the hard work of KiwiArcader who put a huge amount of time into this magazine.
This issue is being presented with full permission from Roger Kean and Newsfield Publications.
The featured articles are:Shoot 'em Up Construction Kitfeature by Jonathan Hare from Sensible Software.
Reviews forPlatoon,Matchday II,Deflektoras well asHunter's Moon, all of which are for the Commodore 64. |
| July 30, 2010 |
Zzap64! 34 - february 1988 (UK) |
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The second update for this week is none other than the latest of our 'Back in Time' feature, which looks back on what happened exactly 20 years ago in the video game magazine world.
As site keeps on growing, we make room for a brand newAmstrad CPC reviewssection. As always, we have chosen four online articles to compliment the main feature itself, including C&VG's review ofG-Locfor the Arcade, Zzap!64 Amiga's review ofBlood Moneyon C64, Amstrad Action's review ofBloodwych for the Amstrad CPC and Amiga Action's review ofChampions of Krynnon the Amiga. To read the full 'Back in Time' feature documenting even more magazines from July 1990, follow the link below, and enjoy. |
| July 23, 2010 |
Back in Time feature - July 1990 |
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Time to jump forward a bit this week. Straight into 1990 with the 3rd issue of Mean Machines Magazine.
Our selected reviews are once again focusing on the NES for the most part with the following games:Batman,Solar JetmanandTecmo World Wrestling.
But that doesn't mean the Mega Drive gets ignored, as we also focus on the rather excellent shooterHellfireon the 16-bit system. |
| July 9, 2010 |
Mean Machines 3 - december 1990 (UK) |
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Slightly later than usual this time, but we are now able to present our June 1990 edition of our monthly feature 'Back in Time', where we look back at the classic video gaming magazines twenty years ago this month.
Once again, we have expanded the site with new sections forC64 featuresandPC/Mac reviews. We have chosen four online articles to compliment the main article itself, including C&VG's review ofOperation Wolfon the Master System, ACE's review ofUltima VIon PC, Zzap!64 Amiga's making of... diary on the C64 gameCreaturesand Amiga Format's review ofF-29 Retaliatoron the Amiga. To read the 'Back in Time' article, as well as the online material, follow the link below, and enjoy. |
| June 25, 2010 |
Back in Time feature - June 1990 |
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Another exclusive this week as we bring you our first "official" release of Raze magazine. This Newsfield Publications (publishers of Zzap!64 and Crash) magazine was a short lived multi-format title from the early 1990s, covering the 16-bit computers and emerging gaming consoles.
This release of issue 1 from October 1990 was scanned by none other than Mort.
The online articles that were selected from this issue are:
Reviews forDevil Crashon the PC-Engine andRick Dangerous IIfor the Amiga and Atari ST,Future Basketballfor the Amiga and Atari ST andShadow Of The Beast 2for the Amiga.
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| Raze 1 - november 1990 (UK) |
June 18, 2010 |
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To coincide with this week's "official" release of Raze issue 1, Roger Kean (the Publisher/Managing Director behind the publication, and many others) kindly took some time out of his busy schedule to talk about the rise and fall of Newsfield Publications and the legacy it left behind. |
| June 18, 2010 |
Roger Kean interview |
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Before we take the final step in the Official Sega Saturn Magazine's history with issue 37, we are taking a look back at it's birth of the magazine with the very first issue.
This is a 100% redone scan, from start to finish. So if you happen to have an old version, be sure to check out this far superior one.
This week we have selected the following articles:
A feature onIndy 500for the arcade, as well as reviews forClockwork Knight 2 ,Sim City 2000andTheme Park, all of which are for the Sega Saturn.
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| Official Sega Saturn Magazine 1 - november 1995 (UK) |
June 11, 2010 |
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To celebrate Future Publishing’s 25th anniversary, Out-of-Print Archive traces the birth and rise of one of the world’s most famous and successful magazine publishing companies, along with insights from founder Chris Anderson and former Group Publisher Steve Carey. |
| June 4, 2010 |
Retro Future - Celebrating 25 years of Future Publishing |
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We'd like to thank Mort for the latest magazine we are about to present to you, which happens to be issue 9 of Nintendo Magazine System.
The following archived articles can be found on the site to accompany the magazine itself:
Reviews forAlien 3 andBio Metalon the Super Nintendo.
On the NES side we have the review forKirby's Adventure , and we end with thePop 'N Twinbee review, once again for the Super Nintendo.
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| Nintendo Magazine System 9 - june 1993 (UK) |
May 28, 2010 |
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Not willing to be kept down for too long, even though we are still dealing with technical issues beyond our control, our very own Neil sprung into action and saved the day.
We are extremely proud to present you with our second Back-in-Time feature, which focuses on a large variety of magazines that came out back in May 1990.
This second edition expands the site ones again with several new sections. The first one being theCommodore 64 review section , followed closely by theC64 interview section .
But to do the scope of this feature justice, you'll have to click the link below and see for yourself! |
| May 21, 2010 |
Back in Time feature - May 1990 |
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As most of you will no doubt already have noticed, we're having some serious technical issues which have prevented us from doing updates these past few weeks.
Besides the hardware failure we've suffered, we also just went though a server migration resulting in some downtime over the weekend. The good news is that the site is back up and running. We've also used this opportunity to rebuild the forum and make it an integrated part of the site. So why don't you take a peek and say hello. The bad news however is that the hardware problem won't be fixed for little while and will have repercussions for at least another couple of weeks.
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May 16, 2010 |
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Bringing some balance back to the force, this week's magazine is the Nintendo only Nintendo Magazine System issue 5, which was scanned once again by Mort.
As always this magazine offers several Game Boy reviews which are not always easy to come by.
The online articles that were selected from this issue are:
Reviews forBionic CommandoandDig Dug, both on the classic Game Boy. Followed by reviews forSuper Star Warsas well asCybernatorwhich are both on the SNES.
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| Nintendo Magazine System 5 - february 1993 (UK) |
April 23, 2010 |
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Friday has quickly become synonymous with a new magazine to read, at least on OoPA. And today is no different.
The 35th issue of the Official Sega Saturn magazine is once again overflowing with incredible content. So much so that it was almost impossible to only select 4 articles.
But we did our best anyway and this is the result:
We start of with the last in-depthRadiant Silvergunfeature.
Next we have interviews withSNKand withAM#2 on Daytona USA 2. And this week we end with the import review for Radiant Silvergun.
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| Official Sega Saturn Magazine 35 - september 1998 (UK) |
April 9, 2010 |
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Taking the next step in the evolution of Out-of-Print Archive, we are proud to present you with the very first monthly feature. In which we will look back in time and go over a wide variety of video game magazines that were released exactly 20 years ago.
Along with this brand new feature, which was created by our very own Nreive, you will find couple of brand new sections to the site.
The most noticeable is theVintage & Microsection which will balance out the console & handheld sections of the site. |
| April 7, 2010 |
Back in Time feature - April 1990 |
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We've got some good news, as well as some bad news.
The bad news is that quite a few people were fooled by our April Fools joke yesterday. ;)
The good news however is that we're still here and going strong. This time with the second edition of Mean Machines.
The new online articles are the following:
To begin we haveBubble Bobbleon the NES, followed by Rainbow Islands,Forgotten WorldsandStrider, all games which appeared on the Mega Drive.
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| Mean Machines 2 - november 1990 (UK) |
April 2, 2010 |
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April Fools!
This is a bit of a bittersweet update for us this time.
We know it couldn't last forever and with mixed feeling we are finally ready to announce that the rumors you probably heard by now are true.
Out-of-Print Archive has been sold to Robert Reeves, or as most people will know him by his screen name: Phillyman, the owner of Retromags.
Along with the Out-of-Print Archive domain and all of it's content, Carl and myself (Andy) have sold our collective video game magazine catalog of roughly 2200 magazines to mr. Reeves as well.
Effective immediately we are retirering from the magazine preservation project. With the money we have received, as well as the funds I'll collect from selling my home, I will be moving to the US.
There I will join up with Carl and do my best to make our childhood dream become reality by making an impact in the wrestling business.
After going through an extensive and rigorous training program under the supervision of The Motorcity Machine Guns, we hope to make a name for ourselves in the TNA tag-team division.
At this point in time we are still in talks with Neil about whether or not he would be willing to become our on-screen manager. We'll try to keep you updated on the progress of these negotiations.
Keep and eye onTNA Wrestlingfor future updates.
Finally we would all like to thank everyone who has been extremely supportive over these past 8 months.
We never would have gotten where we are today without you!
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Thank you for everything! (the OoPA team) |
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To accompany the first of many official releases, we talked with Hugh Gollner, one of the publishers who have given us permission to work on their magazines for release at Out‑of‑Print Archive. Hugh was responsible for editing/publishing many pioneering UK magazines in the 1980s and 1990s, so it's a privilege to be able to work on these titles from his back catalogue.
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March 12, 2010 |
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And here it is: the very first official Out-of-Print Archive release.
Fully sanctioned by none other than Hugh Gollner himself.
In this second edition of Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (or MAG for short) you will find the following Mega Drive reviews:Gleylancer,Magical Tarot,Thunderforce IVand
finallyTwinkle Tale.
We'd like to emphasize how proud we are to be able to present you with this fine publication and hope that you will enjoy it just as much as we did.
Fittingly, this milestone release was worked on by all the main contributors of Out-of-Print Archive.
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| March 12, 2010 |
Mega Drive Advanced Gaming 2 - october 1992 (UK) |
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Another Friday, so that means it's time for a new update.
This time we are able to present you with Nintendo Magazine System issue 3 courtesy of Mort.
The Hand picked reviews this week have a strong Game Boy flavour to them:
We have reviews forKirby's Dream Land,Star Warsas well asGB Kid, all of which are for the classic Game Boy.
And to close of we have a review for the very rare and rather expensive NES gameRod Land.
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| Nintendo Magazine System 3 - december 1992 (UK) |
March 5, 2010 |
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This week we also have a little surprise in store.
After several days of coding we are proud to present you with two new sections which can be found under the features tab.
The first new section is the hardware special section, where you will be able to find everything from in depth hardware articles up to detailed system launch features.
The second new section is the trade show section, which will incorporate a growing collection of past trade shows such as The Nintendo Shoshinkai show, better known as Space World in the west, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and many more.
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February 26, 2010 |
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This week we have the 3rd issue in the Paul Davies series of Computer & Video Games magazines, which is in fact #170.
Notice that this issue is before the crew gave the magazine a full make-over, and also that certain pages seem to be cropped in a strange way, but this is how the magazine was originally printed and not an editing or scanning mishap.
The selected articles for this week are as follows:
Reviews forVirtua Fighter 2andVirtua Cop, both for the Sega Saturn.
For the Playstation fans we have reviews for the classicWarhawkas well asDoom.
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| CVG 170 - january 1996 (UK) |
February 12, 2010 |
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This week we present you with a brand new 1920 pixel version of MAXIMUM The Video Game Magazine Issue 5.
For the people who already have a scan of this issue, this is a complete re-scan, which has also been edited in line with the latest techniques we're using, so it should look quite a bit better compared to any previous versions.
The same goes for the other issues of MAXIMUM and OSSM.
The new online articles are of the following :AOU Arcade Show 1996 special ,Alien Trilogyon the PSone. On the Sega Saturn we have aGun Griffonspecial along with a review forStreet Fighter Alpha.
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| MAXIMUM Issue 5 - april 1996 (UK) |
December 4, 2009 |
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The second part of this week's update is the second CVG issue in the capable hands of Paul Davies.
This issue we see Tom Guise, Ed Lomas and Jaime Smith join the magazine and you will start to witness how they take CVG to a whole new level.
The latest online articles are the following: reviews ofTwisted Metal,ViewpointandWormson the PSone front. And a review forSuper Skidmarkson the Mega Drive.
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| CVG 169 - december 1995 (UK) |
November 27, 2009 |
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Another Friday and another first for our little site.
Today we are very proud to present a magazine which many Super Nintendo fans will surely fall in love with all over again.
Namely the very first issue of Super Play.
Please not that page 60 is upside down in the original magazine as well, so it's not a scanning error.
The selected online articles are the following:The complete guide to Super Nintendowhich goes in depth into the regional differences between each version of the SNES.
An interview withSoftware Creations, and to finish of with, reviews for Xandra's Big AdventureandDinosaurs.
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| Super Play 1 - november 1992 (UK) |
November 13, 2009 |
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Due to the hard work of Mort, who yet again provided the scans for this issue and Triverse for editing them, we are proud to present you with issue 6 of Nintendo Magazine System.
The reason why we jumped ahead a bit this time is due to the requests being made or this specific issue on our forum.
The newest online articles that acompany this issue are the following:RC Pro-AM 2on the NES,Starfox,Pocky & RockyandJacki Crushon the Super Nintendo.
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Nintendo Magazine System 6 - march 1993 (UK) |
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We are very proud to present to you the very first issue of CVG that's starts off the Paul Davies era of the magazine, which is considered by many, including ourselves, as one of the best periods in video game magazine history. Keep in mind that Paul Davies took over right in the middle when this issue was being created and that the new crew hadn't been introduced yet. So keep an eye out on how this magazine is transformed within a handful of issues into a true classic.
The latest online articles includeVirtua Fighteron the 32X,
for the Megadrive there isVectormanand on the PSone we have LoadedandNBA Jam Tournament Editionthis time around.
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| October 20, 2009 |
CVG 168 - november 1995 (UK) |
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Today is a very special day for us here at out-of-print archive.
Something that will have a big effect on the site in the coming months and which we would like to share with our readers as well, so you can see a a glimpse of what we have in store for you in the future.
We want to express our utmost gratitude to Richard from the Netherlands, who was so kind to donate his collection of 350+ classic video game magazines to our preservation project.
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| October 10, 2009 |
Mega Donation |
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The latest high quality version of Maximum issue 4 can now be found in our magazine catalogue. With this latest release, we also welcome 4 new online articles to the site, which can be found at the bottom of the the magazine content page in question, or in their respective categories.
These online articles includeReal Bout Fatal Furyfor the NeoGeo, Virtua Fighter 2andGuardian Heroesfor the Sega Saturn as well asDoomon the PSone.
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| September 30, 2009 |
MAXIMUM Issue 4 - february 1996 (UK) |
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It's time to add a brand new section to the review archive.
Namely the arcade section.
While arcade games are some of the hardest games to find reviews for in classic video game magazines, we believe that we have found a great one to start of the new section with, namelyThe Simpsons.
Stay tuned for the next arcade update which features an equally brilliant classic.
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| CVG 116 - july 1991 (UK) |
September 30, 2009 |
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Maximum issue 3 is now online for download in it's brand new 1920 pixel width version. Even more detail than before as well as the elimination of those nasty artifacts around the text.
Be sure to also check out the linked articles on the bottom of the page. These include features for bothVirua Copon the Sega Saturn as well asSamurai Shodown 3for the NeoGeo.
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| MAXIMUM Issue 3 - january 1996 (UK) |
September 25, 2009 |
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The first of what will soon become a list of home made interviews here at out-of-print archive.
We talk with the person who is responible for recreating a life sized version on Link from the Legend of Zelda. Created fully in papercraft.
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| September 21 2009 |
Papercraft Link interview |
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We launched out-of-print archive as little more than a Dreamcast tribute page, today we are proud to present to the next step.
After nearly two weeks of hard work, and countless months of preparation,
you will be able to enjoy all kinds of articles from a multitude of different magazines.
As well as the new magazine section, where you will be able to find our complete high-quality magazine releases as well as info and links to their content. It's a bit empty at the moment, but it will be getting regular updates from now on, just as the other sections of the site. Enjoy!
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| out-of-print archive 2.0 is live |
September 21, 2009 |
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We launch our brand new site on the anniversary of a great system that didn't get the real chance it deserved, the Sega Dreamcast.
We start of with a blast as we open the Dreamcast review archive containing over 90 reviews of some of our all-time favorite games.
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| September 9 2009 |
Dreamcast anniversary feature |
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