Author Topic: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (04.02.12)  (Read 1927 times)

esteban

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Word up, motherf*ckers!

I finally put some new content on the site. See the updates in the original post of this thread.

Suggests, comments, etc. welcome. I really dig the gloves. Anyone here have them? I want to get 'em, too.
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esteban

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (12.10.11)
« Reply #61 on: December 09, 2011, 09:48:10 PM »
Ha! Rise from your grave:





Now available (12.10.11) for your pleasure:

Excellent Holiday Catalog (1993, CAPTRON / G&G Stores)
• $3.00 OFF
• Dungeon Explorer II
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Catalog
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arromdee

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (12.10.11)
« Reply #62 on: December 10, 2011, 04:00:14 AM »
Going to Turbo Play #1, view all scans, and picking page 32 says that it's not found.  The link to page 32 in the text works, but links to TP-02-32.jpg, not to TP-01-32.  (Was the ad duplicated from month to month?)

Is there any way to download a set of jpgs for an individual issue as a zip file or such so I can view it in an external reader?  (Which would also require having duplicate ads if necessary)  And without the logos on each page.  Logos on each page are useful when you're creating a web site to keep from being ripped off, but they're lousy when it comes to preserving material.

esteban

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (12.10.11)
« Reply #63 on: December 10, 2011, 11:28:27 AM »
Going to Turbo Play #1, view all scans, and picking page 32 says that it's not found.  The link to page 32 in the text works, but links to TP-02-32.jpg, not to TP-01-32.  (Was the ad duplicated from month to month?)

Is there any way to download a set of jpgs for an individual issue as a zip file or such so I can view it in an external reader?  (Which would also require having duplicate ads if necessary)  And without the logos on each page.  Logos on each page are useful when you're creating a web site to keep from being ripped off, but they're lousy when it comes to preserving material.

WILL HAPPEN, EVENTUALLY: Yeah, I want to re-scan all the issues and have a .pdf available. Anyone who is interested in helping me with this should drop me an email ;)

WILL HAPPEN, EVENTUALLY: Once I get tons of the "single page scans" from random publications available, I'd like to make .pdf's available by publication title (so, all the EGM content in one .pdf, all the EB catalogs in another .pdf, etc. ...or something like that)...

FANTASY: A pipe dream of mine is that the .pdf's will have embedded text, which would allow them to be fully searchable (plus, text would be selectable, for copy & past...). The problem, of course, is that even the best OCR software generates a lot of errors and only careful manual copyediting will eliminate these errors.





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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (12.10.11)
« Reply #64 on: April 01, 2012, 01:38:36 AM »
Riftwar Saga looks like a great game, hope that it is released one day.

esteban

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (12.10.11)
« Reply #65 on: April 01, 2012, 04:16:42 AM »
Riftwar Saga looks like a great game, hope that it is released one day.


This is one of the titles I have been most intrigued by! It is an enigma. I would love to find one of the developers and interview them.

I doubt we'll ever be fortunate enough to unearth the original assets of the game, let alone a playable demo, but I would love to find out if the game ever made it past a few screen mock-ups...

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (12.10.11)
« Reply #66 on: April 01, 2012, 11:46:01 AM »


Here is EGM's 1993 Buyer's Guide (.pdf) (I'm just learning how to use the OCR software, so the text embedded in the .pdf is pretty garbled...)

See which TG-16 titles earned some respect from EGM editors (hint: Cosmic Fantasy 2, Air Zonk, Gate of Thunder, etc.). Also, inspect the enigmatic (and unreleased) Bonk RPG as well as the interesting category created for Dragon Knight 3 (PCE). The most interesting category? Well, that would have to be the "BEST VIDEO GAME RUMOR" (Street Fighter II as a CD-ROM for TG-CD and Sega CD! Imagine the loading times!) You might also enjoy the prescient article entitled "CDs—The Future of Video Gaming" amongst other TG-16 goodies.

If you want to get high-resolution .jpg files of individual pages, use the .pdf as a reference to change the PAGE NUMBER in the link below:

http://archives.tg-16.com/EGM/EGM_BG_1993_001.jpg  (for the cover "page 001")
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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (12.10.11)
« Reply #67 on: April 01, 2012, 01:15:32 PM »
Very cool!

esteban

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (04.02.12)
« Reply #68 on: April 01, 2012, 09:38:51 PM »
Very cool!



Especially Street Fighter II CD-ROM and Bonk RPG
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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (04.02.12)
« Reply #69 on: April 02, 2012, 05:13:55 AM »
Cosmic fantasy 2 was alright, but I liked Dragon Slayers 2 a whole lot more.

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (04.02.12)
« Reply #70 on: April 02, 2012, 07:53:17 AM »
Thanks for sharing :@)

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (04.02.12)
« Reply #71 on: September 19, 2013, 06:29:07 AM »
Any updates in the last year?   :-"

esteban

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Re: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (04.02.12)
« Reply #72 on: September 20, 2013, 06:16:46 AM »
Any updates in the last year?   :-"


I suck completely. I have lots of random stuff I upload, then I forget about, and the worst part: if I don't update the database (the big sortable table), then 99.99% of folks will never know it is available (because the only link to the scan is in a random post, in a random topic).

WHICH REMINDS ME, I'm pretty sure I have to update the list of instruction manuals available...Bernie scanned ~5 that I don't think I ever listed on the website (they are listed here at the forum).

WHICH REMINDS ME, I have old TG-16/PCE desktop/mobile wallpaper I never made available...

Etc. etc.



 
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