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- games@hexbear.net
The 90’s 'tude and constant sexism is just dripping off every page in these old gaming mags
The 90’s 'tude and constant sexism is just dripping off every page in these old gaming mags
Does that site have any UK Official PlayStation Magazine issues? Archive.org used to have almost all of them but some UK forum issued a DMCA takedown.
The UK version started out a bit earlier and there are a ton of games the US one didn’t get to cover as a result
Unfortunately, no. And I was surprised to see that Retromags only has 5 out of 108 issues. That really sucks about Internet Archive…I just looked it up and apparently as you said, it was some forum that apparently charges for access to their scans. Wack. The issues Retromags has are original scans so they won’t run into the same problem, but it’s probably pretty demoralizing to know that the scans already exist but are just being gatekept.
There’s still ~15 other issues on the Internet Archive (plus a few more here), including the first issue. In a Reddit thread I found about the takedown someone claimed to have nearly the full set from before the takedown (minus an issue or two) and said they would make a torrent or send links; unfortunately, they never posted anything publicly, and the account has been inactive for nearly two years, so asking them directly is probably a dead end. Your best bet would probably be to DM the people who asked for the links and hope that one of them might be able to share. Wish I could’ve been of more help! If you decide to pursue it and end up finding anything, though, def let me know—I’ve got the full Retromags collection saved precisely because you never know when a takedown might happen.
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