Game media preservation, where?
-
Out of Print archive is my go to for nostalgia.
make sure to look in the WIP section for even more magazines
Thanks! Didn't know about this one.
-
https://archive.org/ has old media of all sorts including game magazines, demos trailers and manuals.
a lot of video material has been uploaded to youtube, that was formerly hosted elsewhere. hell i've watched the old eoLithic frag movie from like 2002 a week ago.
vimm's lair is also worth a visit if your are looking for old game manuals.
Yeah I've sometimes used all those sites at some point, but they're so vast (or have only manuals, like vimm's lair). I was interested in finding something a bit more curated and game-oriented.
-
Sometimes, a video game enjoyer just wants to be showered in nostalgia.
Sometimes maybe they just want to be more immersed before starting a playthrough of a classic game.
Maybe they obsessively keep a (digital) journal and want to give it a bit more color by including trailers, posters, commercials, you name it.
So I wanted to ask what your go-to sites to get all that good stuff are. Are there any, even?
-
Sometimes, a video game enjoyer just wants to be showered in nostalgia.
Sometimes maybe they just want to be more immersed before starting a playthrough of a classic game.
Maybe they obsessively keep a (digital) journal and want to give it a bit more color by including trailers, posters, commercials, you name it.
So I wanted to ask what your go-to sites to get all that good stuff are. Are there any, even?
GOG does preservation. That and Archive.org are the ones I use.
-
Sometimes, a video game enjoyer just wants to be showered in nostalgia.
Sometimes maybe they just want to be more immersed before starting a playthrough of a classic game.
Maybe they obsessively keep a (digital) journal and want to give it a bit more color by including trailers, posters, commercials, you name it.
So I wanted to ask what your go-to sites to get all that good stuff are. Are there any, even?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not the most searchable since it's main use is through it's api (I use it through retrodeck/ES-DE which is for ROM libraries) but screenscraper.fr contains scans of boxart, title art, videos from the games, manuals that used to come with physical copies and a lot more.
If you want retro ROMs, I can't help you since I don't know if I can link to those types of sites but ask on [email protected] and check their wiki linked at the top of the community.
-
Not the most searchable since it's main use is through it's api (I use it through retrodeck/ES-DE which is for ROM libraries) but screenscraper.fr contains scans of boxart, title art, videos from the games, manuals that used to come with physical copies and a lot more.
If you want retro ROMs, I can't help you since I don't know if I can link to those types of sites but ask on [email protected] and check their wiki linked at the top of the community.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
Luckily, I have the ROM part covered, but thanks for the pointer
-
Sometimes, a video game enjoyer just wants to be showered in nostalgia.
Sometimes maybe they just want to be more immersed before starting a playthrough of a classic game.
Maybe they obsessively keep a (digital) journal and want to give it a bit more color by including trailers, posters, commercials, you name it.
So I wanted to ask what your go-to sites to get all that good stuff are. Are there any, even?
Discs, roms, piracy.
-
this is awesome, thanks!
-
Yeah I've sometimes used all those sites at some point, but they're so vast (or have only manuals, like vimm's lair). I was interested in finding something a bit more curated and game-oriented.
This one Archive.org user has a bunch of "Champion Collections" which may fit the bill. https://archive.org/details/@madhattersez
-
This one Archive.org user has a bunch of "Champion Collections" which may fit the bill. https://archive.org/details/@madhattersez
awesome!
