Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Computer and Video Games

UK magazines

User:Hellknowz, I started to fill this one out that you created, just like I started Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Crash and Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Zzap!64, but I did not get far on any of them. I think part of the problem there is that a lot of these British games have no articles as of yet, so it requires a fair bit more research and work (and therefore time) than some of the US magazines. Also, it does help that I have been creating articles on the US games as I find them, which is in fact why I have been putting work into these pages in the first place. I may revisit these UK pages in time, though, since it both helps to identify which existing articles have reviews that need to be added, and which games may have enough reviews to create an article with. :) BOZ (talk) 01:57, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

You are relentless! And here I can't even finish 1 magazine. I've honestly been waiting for some online issues list to be published that we can "borrow". Some publishers have done so.

I have wondered why US magazine games seem to have more articles than UK magazine games. The game scene was big in both places. May be US just focused more on the hits and UK covered more games? Or may be you're just very early in the history in 81/82 and there's mostly local UK games that weren't exactly stellar. Or publishing timeline and ports and issues like PAL/NTSC are to blame. One of the few articles I've actually made is Ace (video game), which is covered almost entirely only by UK magazines, but it's covered a lot. So may be it's just the editors focusing on US releases? Although I don't know why since a lot are from UK.

Anyway, CVG has a huge amount of issues, so this is a task and a half. —  HELLKNOWZ   ▎TALK 09:49, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm going to try go finish as many of the computer magazines as I can find to go through, and at that point I will likely revisit some of these incomplete pages; they are definitely worth working on, but they are indeed a task and a half (or more). :) BOZ (talk) 20:30, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

You know, there are non-English magazines that have no scans at all. There's like a couple national library archive copies and probably sitting in some basement boxes never to be seen again. Now, THOSE would be a real challenge to add. I have checked the prices to have the library scan magazines on request, but that would run many thousands of ‹insert you favourite currency here›. One can go themselves and scan them for free by appointment, but you can imagine the time investment something like that would take. And they can't be borrowed more than a few copies at a time to do it on your own time. Basically, until this stuff is automatically scanned when libraries catch up with now-everything-is-digitized-by-default, we won't see them. And that's probably decades if not centuries away (after all, so much stuff from hundreds of years is waiting to be scanned). One could buy them, but that assumes finding someone who sells them and that's having to pay so much attention to listings in all sort of places, it becomes a job on its own. Not to mention the actual price. I guess I'm going on a tangent here. Thing is, some local games and topics were only covered by these, so it's the sort of obscure notable history one would be hard-pressed to source. —  HELLKNOWZ   ▎TALK 21:01, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Here, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Reference_library/Spelu_Pasaule just threw it up in a couple hours. Come on, keep up! —  HELLKNOWZ   ▎TALK 22:05, 3 October 2020 (UTC)