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Post by mrmolecule on Jan 30, 2010 20:16:01 GMT -5
ORIGINAL POST:
Back in 2006 or 2007, I expressed dismay in Nintendo's recent decision to destroy its large "game database" (as it was) and wrote a long post explaining why it was a bad idea and such. I can't find it through Google and was hoping if there was some way to recover it somehow. Can anyone (Fry?) help me?
P.S.: The reason is I'm kind of doing a project to rebuild the information lost.
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Post by Wildcat on Jan 30, 2010 20:26:56 GMT -5
If you have a recollection of the title or any key words, you can try searching through the forum's search options. I think you can also look through every post you have ever done, but it'd take a while for 1,410 posts to load. XD
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Post by mrmolecule on Jan 30, 2010 21:00:23 GMT -5
If you have a recollection of the title or any key words, you can try searching through the forum's search options. I think you can also look through every post you have ever done, but it'd take a while for 1,410 posts to load. XD I think it cuts off after 1000... (types in "1000") (searches) Hey, I found it! Sweetness! fryguy64.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=801Fry didn't delete it after all! ;D And then when I was looking I found that at one time I was a shameless fanboy who honestly expected to PS3 to fail.  |
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Post by Wildcat on Jan 30, 2010 21:06:03 GMT -5
Awesome. ^_^ Glad to be of service!
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jan 31, 2010 13:43:34 GMT -5
I don't tend to delete things unless I created them and no longer feel they are valid, they contain no useful information (e.g. posts that then redirect to another post - this one for example) or spam.
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Post by mrmolecule on Jan 31, 2010 18:19:16 GMT -5
Well, this doesn't exactly redirect to another post...and this is the first time I admitted I was a fanboy back in 2006...in fact, I'm almost at the point of writing off the Wii's future entirely. Anyway, I kind of need help with something. See, I recently launched a webpage called Blue Skies and Nintendo with two goals: 1. Launch an archive of magazine scans and lost Internet articles 2. Create "Project ND", a database of video games closely mirroring Nintendo.com's old scheme (which was lost in December 2007) I won't need help with Project ND yet ( I have my sources) but I want suggestions for old stuff on #1. Does anyone have any ideas? |
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Post by The Qu on Jan 31, 2010 18:30:53 GMT -5
If the magazine scans would include early 2000 era Nintendo Power, I'd be totally down with that.
Not that I'm not down with it already!
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Post by Fryguy64 on Feb 1, 2010 9:56:08 GMT -5
There are a lot of interviews in magazines that have been lost to the ages. Every now and again, I will see some debate or disagreement over a Wikipedia entry that could be solved so easily if there was an archive of videogame magazines (or at the very least their more interesting features) to reference.
Of course, you're very likely to be stepping on copyright issues.
I was recently writing up Donkey Kong Country for NinDB, and because Rare's website has been torn apart in recent years, many of their old pages have been ditched. I scoured the Internet Archive to track down that information, and it was much further back than I thought it was...
If I were in your shoes, I would create a website that seeks to preserve factual information scoured from forgotten media. So long as you transcribe that information and source it properly (rather than scanning) then you may end up with a highly-referenced and useful archive! And no doubt many contributors.
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Post by mrmolecule on Feb 1, 2010 16:20:59 GMT -5
I have a large collection of Nintendo Power magazines. It's kind of flaky in the early days (1988-1995), solid from 1996 to 2001, flaky from 2002-2005, solid from 2006-present. Unfortunately, I don't have access to other magazines (ONM, EGM, etc.). There's an archive of the first 100 CGW issues (fully scanned) but that's not really video games per se.  Oh, and I'm taking requests: anything you'd like to see? |
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