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[rmaerz]

My web site started out as a information and history of my home arcade and parties. But since then, I have uploaded articles I have written, videos and created the Retroboard.

Now, I am gauging interest in others assisting me in writing original content to be compiled in magazine format which will be freely available PDFs from my web site.

The content I am interested in is what I consider true classic gaming:

• Consoles up to and including the NES and Atari 7800
  
• Arcade games produced before 1990
  
• Classic handhelds
  
• Classic gaming tournament coverage
  
• Classic gaming expos
  
• Classic computers
  
• The obligatory game reviews
  
• Game playing tips
  
• Player, developer and other classic gaming personality interviews
  
• Coverage of the home brew front
  
• Other classic gaming items I may not have listed above

If you're interested, post here for further discussion.

[keilbaca]

You can count me in. I'm down for going over reviews and giving tips to games.

I need to start making a website for myself VERY soon that posts my projects and pictures of projects and whatnot.

If we get enough of a following, I can do a Q and A on fixing hardware and consoles.

[nvrmndtheruins]

I would be interested in reviewing/article writing

[bomberpunk]

i are interested.

[carmel_andrews]

Some idea's for you

instead of having just text based articles (which is what i am guessing you are looking for) why not have articles with embedded audio or video clips, it will enhance the article no end and provides more indepth discussion/knowledge concerning the content/point of the article

further to the above in things like gaming tips and strategies for completing games, a video clip to compliment the text would be a good way of getting across an article/feature much better

another idea or feature you could do is a feature concerning 3rd party coin op conversions to home computer/gaming systems and how they compare to the coin op original (including history of 3rd part coin op conversions to home computer/gaming systems)...like for instance that Ocean Software's 'Hunchback' (originally written in basic) was the first official 3rd party coin op conversion to a home gaming/computer platform

[rmaerz]

carmel_andrews, on Fri Jun 3, 2011 5:55 AM, said:

Some idea's for you

instead of having just text based articles (which is what i am guessing you are looking for) why not have articles with embedded audio or video clips, it will enhance the article no end and provides more indepth discussion/knowledge concerning the content/point of the article

further to the above in things like gaming tips and strategies for completing games, a video clip to compliment the text would be a good way of getting across an article/feature much better

another idea or feature you could do is a feature concerning 3rd party coin op conversions to home computer/gaming systems and how they compare to the coin op original (including history of 3rd part coin op conversions to home computer/gaming systems)...like for instance that Ocean Software's 'Hunchback' (originally written in basic) was the first official 3rd party coin op conversion to a home gaming/computer platform

How about you as a writer, Carmel? You could give us insights from the other side of the Atlantic?

[carmel_andrews]

Mighten be a poss'y, as long as you haul along with you some of your euro/uk friends rmaerz, just to give a fuller piccy of the whole UK/euro market from way back when (even as far back as our/my childhood)

[rmaerz]

carmel_andrews, on Tue Jun 7, 2011 6:05 AM, said:

Mighten be a poss'y, as long as you haul along with you some of your euro/uk friends rmaerz, just to give a fuller piccy of the whole UK/euro market from way back when (even as far back as our/my childhood)

I'll need you to recruit the Europeans for me carmel All my Deutsche relatives are dead

[carmel_andrews]

Just had another idea, if you are doing the coin op to home gaming coin op ports thing, you could also include scans of the packaging from the home gaming version (be it computer or gaming machine versions) and differences between the computer or games machine packing and actual games and differences between the packaging and actual games for the various markets...i.e uk/europe US/Jap

As well as a short bio on the various publishers like atari/atarisoft, commodore, sega, konami, firebird, microprose, EA, activision (mostly via UK software labels they owned like software studios and electric dreams), US gold, Ocean, Elite etc etc

Edited by carmel_andrews, Wed Jun 8, 2011 5:44 AM.

[Atari Smeghead]

I looked through your site the other day and read Game Over. I found it to be very interesting and informative, and of course more than a little sad.

I am a published author of both fiction and non-fiction. My novel, Driving Crazy is about two friends who drive across the country to pick up a Crazy Climber arcade game, and all the fun and trouble they get themselves into. At one point, they end up at the Pirates Cove arcade in Bradenton, Florida and participate in a video game contest. (I based it in 1999, when such things still had a possibility of happening, and when the arcade was still in business.) It's sad to see these places go away, but it's an unfortunate part of life in 2011.

Anyway, I bring this up because I might be interesting in writing something for your website. I don't know what, just yet, but as an Atari gamer from the 2600 to the Jaguar, I might be able to come up with something worthwhile. Also, we still have a working arcade here in the area... Pinball Pete's in East Lansing. It might be overkill to have yet another interview of an arcade owner, but perhaps something unique could come of it.

If you are interested (and if I can come up with anything relevant to post) I'll be in touch.

Cheers,
Randy

[rmaerz]

Atari Smeghead, on Thu Jun 9, 2011 11:34 AM, said:

If you are interested (and if I can come up with anything relevant to post) I'll be in touch.

Cheers,
Randy

Randy:

I recall seeing a thread, perhaps here on AtariAge, regarding your novel.

I'm interested so if you could send me a PM I'll get you up to speed.

Thx

Rob

[ozma wars]

interested to an "european" point of view ? Am 43 y.o. and always active in games 1975 - 1995.

anyway interested to be yr. customer for the magazine if one day available in the paper version.
Best rgds
MAX

[DickNixonArisen]

I could help out. I wrote for a print zine about videogames here years back, do my songs about games of course, and turn out the off essay about gender politics and games, the hero's journey concept, gamification, that kind of thing. Don't know much about arcade or computer games.

[esplonky]

I am very well interested, i can do interviews with programmers around atariage and i can do reviews on Atari 2600 and NES games and do a tips and tricks thing.

[Vitiman Z]

Sounds interesting! Sure, I'll help. Just PM me if you want to contact me.

[kamakazi]

I'd like to join. If you would like to sample my writing skills, visit my blog site here. The servers I'm using are from a free web hosting site and are slow so please give about a minute for a response. I have a few reviews I've written on my blog about the 5200 and some of its games to help keep my college studies in English and Literature from falling behind. It has helped. Just tell me what you would liked reviewed and I'll do my best to oblige.

Forgot to mention that my hardware collection includes 2600, 5200, XEGS, NES, GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, Dreamcast, PSX, PS2, XBOX, XBOX 360 and N64. We only have about a handful of games for each system right now as my wife and I are concentrating on obtaining hardware first. But it would help me out with my college portfolio if I could get involved in something like this.

Edited by kamakazi, Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:40 PM.

[rmaerz]

Right now I have a vacancy in the reviews department if any are interested

[mlippart]

Hey all,
I am so down with helping you out. i used to do music and video game reviews back in the day (with AtariHQ and NIntendojo) and would love to get back into it. Lemme know what you think. Here is my 7800 game review section at AtariHQ:
http://atarihq.com/reviews/7800/

Since then, I have written a book and all that, but miss the old video game days . . . if I could help in any way, lemme know