I’ve been working on scanning one of my Norwegian Nintendo Magasinet issues, inspired by the Swedish scanning project. So far about halfway through the scanning operation itself, and after that there’s postprocessing and eventually rescanning time. Never knew magazine scans were so hard work, and luckily learned some tricks to not completely destroy the poor mag.
Reading old gaming magazines is in many ways more interesting than new issues. Some Swedes started a project to scan all the “classic” Nintendo Magasinet releases, which is pretty much the same mag that we had in Norway. Nr. 4 1999, or 018 in the scanners’ sorting system, is where the SNES news take off.
They’ve got a whole page in that number which just reads “SLÄNG DIG I VÄGGEN SEGA MEGA DRIVE. HÄR KOMMER…” with the next two pages being an introduction of the SNES. Maan, they’re digging SMW so hard, making me want to play it again. Can’t wait for my REALLY COOL SHIT to arrive in a few days… will update with pics then.
