Electronic Game Player (May/June)

Electronic Game Player (May/June)

Electronic Game Player is a pretty obscure video game magazine mostly because it was short lived. However, it was the immediate predecessor to Electronic Gaming Monthly which was not so obscure... The May/June 1988 issue includes:

Features

• The Electronic Game Player Great Game Give-Away - Here's your chance to win over fifty cartridges for your Nintendo Entertainment System absolutely free! One lucky winner will get a slew of titles, including games that aren't even available in stores yet!


• Behind the Scenes at the CES - Grab your V.I.P. pass and head for Las Vegas with Electronic Game Player for an advance look at all of the home games and computer software you'll be playing in the months to come.

In-Focus

• Video Games Battle Back - With millions of game systems filtering into American living rooms and arcade receipts exceeding $5,000,000,000, the video game hobby appears to be healthier than ever. Some say the wonderful world of electronic gaming has returned from the dead. Others contend that it never had left us. Find out the real story and get an insight on where the major companies plan to go from here.

Also In This Issue...

• Score! - Top champs give you their secrets to winning at Out Run, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, and Alien Syndrome. Look for plenty of helpful tips in this new expanded section.


• The Home Front - Get the complete scoop on over a dozen new releases for the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System. Be sure to check out Ed Semrad's reviews of Victory Road and Zaxxon 3-D, as well as Wizards and Warrior and Freedom Force.


• The U.S. National Video Game Team Endorses - A new column you'll find exclusively in Electronic Game Player! The U.S. Nation Video Game Team, the only internationally recognized group of professional game players, lend their special "Players Seal of Approval" to three of the hottest new carts! Read the team's endorsements of Double Dragon, Fighting Golf, and RBI Baseball in this regular feature that spotlights only the very best titles!


• Logon - Todd Rodgers, Jim Gilliam, and John Styles review Accolade's Test Drive and Card Sharks, Mindscape's into the Eagle's Nest, Data East's Speed Buggy, Q*Bert, and TNK III.

Departments

• Coming Soon
• insert Coin
• Interface
• Press Start
• Gaming Gossip
• Next Wave
• Behind the Screens
• APA International Scoreboard

...and more!

Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (757-760)

See the previous post in this series here.

I had the opportunity to pick up a huge batch of slides a while back. These are pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. These came to me second hand but the original source was a combination of estate sales and Goodwill. There are several thousand...maybe as many as 10,000. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.

Getting your pictures processed as slides used to be a fairly common thing but it was a phenomenon I missed out on. However, my Grandfather had a few dozen slides (circa late 1950s) that we found after he died. That along with having some negatives I wanted to scan is what prompted me to buy a somewhat decent flatbed scanner that could handle slides and negatives, an Epson V600. It can scan up to four slides at a time with various post-processing options and does a decent enough job.

This set continues a rather large batch of slides that originally came from an estate sale and appear to have belonged to a locally well known photographer (or perhaps a close family member) from the Spokane Washington area and later Northern Idaho named Leo Oestreicher. He was known for his portrait and landscape photography and especially for post cards. His career started in the 1930s and he died in 1990. These slides contain a lot of landscape and portrait photos but also a lot of photos from day to day life and various vacations around the world. Here's an article on him from 1997 which is the only info I have found on him: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/04/photos-of-a-lifetime-museum-acquisition-of-leo/

Many of these slides had the date they were processed (presumably) stamped or printed on them. I've found that in cases where I could verify the date, either because a more specific date was hand written or there was something to specifically date the photo in the photo itself, that this date has typically been the same month the photos were taken. In other words, I expect that in MOST cases these photos were taken relatively near the processing date.

The second two photos were taken in the Triangle Lake area of Oregon. One features the lake itself and the other the Triangle Lake Church. The other two photos feature flowers. These are undated but likely from the late 1950s or early 1960s.







Leo at Triangle Lake between Eugene + Florence


Triangle Lake Church


Bunchberry



The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can be found here.

Commodore Format (February 1993)

Commodore Format (February 1993)



Commodore Format is a Commodore 64 magazine that was published in the U.K. from October 1990 until October 1995. It was the last commercial magazine published in the U.K. for an 8-bit computer. Contents of the February 1993 issue include:

Games

• WWF European Rampage (Ocean)
• Sceptre of Baghdad (Atlantis)
• Playdays (Alternative)
• Magic Rufus (Alternative)
• Dalek Attack (Alternative)
• Street Fighter 2 (US Gold)
• Superstar Seymour (Codemasters)
• Lethal Weapon (Ocean)
• All-American Basketball (Zeppelin)
• Wrestling Superstars (Codemasters)

CF Special

• Let's Make a Monster - Aren't color splits the very bestest? What do you mean, what's a color split? They'll help make Mayhem in Monsterland one of the greatest looking games ever seen on the C64, that's what.
• Face to Face - You've heard of the Darling Buds of May, well this month we talk to, uh, David Darling...
• But I Wanted a Bike - Remember our Chrimbo compo, when we asked you to tell us what movies or TV shows you wanted to see on the C64?
• Who Does He Think He Is? - With Dalek Attack in for review we tracked down Sylvester 'Seventh Doctor' McCoy for an expert analysis of the game, the series and some curious queries on Ferrets (?).
• Power Pack Pages - The Power Pack unpacked!

Regulars

• Charts - The best of the best
• Gamebusters - If you want to get ahead get busted!
• Inside Info - Our techie hit-man 'liquidates' your problems.
• Letters - TMB does his funky correspondence thang!
• Budget Games - Great games at knockdown prices.
• Mail Order/Subs - A veritable Aladdin's cave of C64 stuff.
• Next Month - Coming attractions - Commodore style!

...and more!

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