Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions
VGHF offers a magazine subscription where they'll send out a random vintage issue each month to offload their collection of dupes. Thought it was a cool way to relive the past while supporting video game archival work.
https://the-video-game-history-foundation.myshopify.com/collections/featured-products/products/blind-box-vintage-game-magazine-subscriptionOpen linkView original on lemmy.zip
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I have been subscribing to this for
threefive months now and I love it!The magazines come bagged, boarded, and sealed with a certificate inside.
I’ve gotten two issues from the late 1990s and one Electronic Games, October 1982! My fifth magazine will be in the mail soon.
Here’s what I’ve gotten, if anyone is curious:
Ultra Game Players, January 1997
Ultra Game Players, holiday 1997
GamePro, October 1995
Electronic Games, October 1982
Do you get any demo disks with them?
No, they are just magazines!
Booo (presuming they came with one)
I would opt out if it were available. I like magazines, but I don’t find old optical media useful at all.
I still have working consoles so for me they could be fun
I could potentially see them doing this if they get a lot of those, but they might not. People kept magazines, but a lot of people didn’t keep the discs with them.
The foundation also has a few dozen demo discs cataloged, with mirrors at archive.org if you want to burn some!
Are you subbed to the 80s-90s option or to the “surprise me” option?
The 80s-90s one!
Bagged, boarded, and sealed with a certificate? Won't that just encourage speculation purchasers calling themselves "collectors" to try to resell them at absurd prices in a few years?
Nah, bagging and boarding something doesn’t turn it into something to speculate on.
They do that for storage and shipping purposes.
Would be nice, but $46 international shipping in 2025...wow
Yikes, you're right. I was so down for this until it was going to $75+ CAD per magazine. I'm really sad now.
That's awesome! Sometimes I regret throwing out my milk crates full of old Nintendo Powers from the 90s. I miss flipping through those.
https://archive.org/details/nintendo-power-complete
Shhhh
https://nintendopowerindex.lulufamilia.com/
It's not pretty and it's rife with issues.
BUT this will let you search any game from the first issue to around 1996 and will tell you which issues it appears in
I love this idea, what a great way to raise money
Me throwing out 5 yrs of completed GamePro magazines from back in the day.
This is a really cool idea. I love it.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!