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Hi All,

I had found some really cool sites I wanted to share. I used to collect Gamepro and Electronic Gaming Monthly magazines when I was younger and I found two sites where they have digitally archived every issue of almost any video game magazine imaginable. The links are below. I just thought it was very cool someone actually did this. I still have alot of my old Gamepro and EGM magazines from the late 90's early 2000s.

https://archive.gamehistory.org/

Here is another link for another site I found as well.

https://www.retromags.com/

Enjoy

Wasn't Nintendo Power archived as well?

Good question! It looks like Nintendo Power isn't on the Archives site but it is on the Retromags site. You just have to download this PDF viewer called Sumatrapdf and download the file to view it. I'm not sure why they don't have it on the other site.

https://www.retromags.com/files/category/97-nintendo-power/

Here is the link for the Sumatra PDF viewer. The file format of the magazine downloads is CBR which it reads.

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

I just wanted to add to my post above but the Sumatra PDF viewer also contains a portable ZIP file that you can extract to your desktop. It dosen't install or write to your registry when you do this. This site brought back so many nostalgic memories of old Gamepro Magazines I used to have. The earliest Gamepro magazine I had at one point was from 1995 but something happened to it and think I must have thrown it out. It's incredible they archived these. I forgot to add to my original post but ChatGPT is what led me to both sites. I wanted to make sure I gave proper credit You can still find old gaming magazines on Ebay and Amazon but it can get expensive depending on the issue.