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I recently backed on Kickstarter a rather impressive sounding book from the creators of the excellent and much missed American gaming magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly, it’s called ‘The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium’ described as ‘A Definitive History of Video Games through the pages of the #1 gaming magazine’, I should be getting my copy in a couple of months time.
But what I wanted to focus on in this post was an item included when you back the book which is access to the EGM Digital Archive, this is a truly incredible resource which, in the first Beta release gives access to every issue of EGM (the ‘lost’ issue and new issue #265 will be added soon) and an impressive and very easy-to-use searchable reviews database, simply type in the game you’re looking for, click on it and the site will take you straight to the review as printed in the magazine.
More features are due to be added in the coming months - all issues of EGM2, the special supplements and the ability to download individual issues for offline reading.
But for a first Beta release this is a great start. This really is an amazing resource and, as print issues of EGM were sometimes hard to find here in the UK am grateful to be able to enjoy issues I missed first time around. This is the kind of website I could and almost certainly will spend many happy hours browsing, very impressive stuff!
