CGW archive launched, download first 100 issues free
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Oct 20th 2006 at 6:55PM }
Computer Gaming World has opened a digital archive that includes its first 100 issues, dating back to November 1981. Each issue is available for download in PDF format via FileFront -- for free. Go getcha hoard on!Keep in mind, the archive might not be online for long since Computer Gaming World will be transformed into Games for Windows: The Official Magazine starting with the December issue (released in mid-November).
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
geneticdefect @ Oct 20th 2006 7:35PM
Now someone just needs to download them all and put them in a torrent...
Christian @ Oct 22nd 2006 12:16AM
Alright dude, good idea! I'm on it! Look for it on Demonoid in a day or two!
Eliot Phillips @ Oct 20th 2006 9:38PM
Damn, the X-Com guide I wanted isn't available. Issue #124 As much as I read that I'm lucky I kept the cover on as long as I did. http://static.filefront.com/images/brufbjsydr.jpg
Joseph Villalobos @ Oct 20th 2006 10:29PM
Hmmm... I just downloaded them all but it stops at Number 66, December, 1989.
Joseph Villalobos @ Oct 20th 2006 10:32PM
Let me correct myself, there are 67 PDF files availible for download. The total amount is 1.41GB!!!
Nmaster @ Oct 20th 2006 10:42PM
If only I could find this for Nintendo Power! Those damn first few dozen issues I'm missing...
Griking @ Oct 20th 2006 10:58PM
There IS a second page which contains the other 33 issues. You have to click on the link on the top of the page for magazine from the 90's
Dansk @ Oct 20th 2006 11:17PM
Blast from the past! Awesome!
Is it just me or game magazines were a lot better in the 90's?
Or did i just got older and more critic?
Spybreak @ Oct 21st 2006 12:50AM
This is sweet but I can't find it anywheres on Fileplanet. Am I too late and if so wow that was fast?!
n8dogg @ Oct 21st 2006 10:53AM
This stuff is absolutely facinating. Especially the article in the first issue written about the infancy of the Personal Computer.
Boy, how things changed since then!
Lord_Satorious @ Oct 21st 2006 11:03AM
Can anyone get that "CGW Issue Index" to work? Adobe Acrobat is giving me an error.
Skippy @ Oct 21st 2006 1:35PM
I have all the old issues of Electronic Games magazine from the 80's. Some day I'll scan them in...
Shagi @ Oct 21st 2006 8:36PM
Downloaded all the issues last night...clocks in at 2.86 GB. Well worth it to see the evolution of computer games. Very cool.
Stephane @ Oct 22nd 2006 2:39AM
Which version of Acrobat are you using?