1w ago

Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions

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Vintage Video Game Magazine Monthly Subscription

VGHF offers a magazine subscription where they'll send out a random vintage issue each month to offload their collection of dupes. Thought it was a cool way to relive the past while supporting video game archival work.

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5d ago

Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions

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5d ago

Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions

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19 comments

Me throwing out 5 yrs of completed GamePro magazines from back in the day.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I have been subscribing to this for ~~three~~ five months now and I love it!
The magazines come bagged, boarded, and sealed with a certificate inside.
I’ve gotten two issues from the late 1990s and one Electronic Games, October 1982! My fifth magazine will be in the mail soon.
Here’s what I’ve gotten, if anyone is curious:
Ultra Game Players, January 1997
Ultra Game Players, holiday 1997
GamePro, October 1995
Electronic Games, October 1982
- Are you subbed to the 80s-90s option or to the “surprise me” option?
  
  The 80s-90s one!
- Do you get any demo disks with them?
  
  No, they are just magazines!
- Bagged, boarded, and sealed with a certificate? Won't that just encourage speculation purchasers calling themselves "collectors" to try to resell them at absurd prices in a few years?
  
  Nah, bagging and boarding something doesn’t turn it into something to speculate on.
  They do that for storage and shipping purposes.
Would be nice, but $46 international shipping in 2025...wow
- Yikes, you're right. I was so down for this until it was going to $75+ CAD per magazine. I'm really sad now.
That's awesome! Sometimes I regret throwing out my milk crates full of old Nintendo Powers from the 90s. I miss flipping through those.
- https://archive.org/details/nintendo-power-complete
I love this idea, what a great way to raise money
This is a really cool idea. I love it.

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