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Hey everyone, my name is Carl Williams, co-founder of Retro Gaming Magazine. I figured we are close enough to launch, January 2012, that it is time to start promoting it more to others that may be interested in knowing about it.

Retro Gaming Magazine is a new gaming magazine that, well, focuses on retro gaming that many of us grew up with. We have preview pages available at the link below for anyone interested in the direction we are going with art style, writing and general magazine attributes (the preview is only 4 pages).

http://videogamecowb...e-zero-edit.pdf

We plan on launching in January 2012 with a magazine that is a minimum of 40 pages and available in print and digital, DRM free, PDF format.

Our art director is Martin Alessi, many old school gamers may recognize him as the first art director for Electronic Gaming Monthly from 1989 to about 1994 and creator of the upcoming Retro Player mobile App. We have a support staff of nearly 11 writers, 4 people handling layouts, several dedicated artists handling covers and a public relations/promotion staff of 5 members getting word out about the mag. We also have brought on Michael Thomasson of Good Deal Games to help with our covers.

Some things that you can depend on NOT seeing in RGM include reviews of titles that you are tired of reading about (Mario 3, Sonic games, Street Fighter series, etc), rehashes of old gaming ads (why waste precious paper to reprint old ads when we can focus on more original content?) and we will not be wasting pages on news items (we are covering old games after all).

We welcome everyone to our forums at s7mg.freeforums.org where we do our best to post articles such as Today in History, which covers staple games on the day they were released, news items of interest (see, not in the mag) and various interesting things from other members.

I just saw the post on J2Games.com (http://www.j2games.c...hp?topic=6356.0) mentioning that Bill Kunkel, known to many of us as The Game Doctor, passed away yesterday. Details are sketchy at best at this time.

Bill was a forerunner in many fields, including comics, wrestling magazines and gaming magazines where he arguably created the genre with Arnie Katz and later refined it with both Arnie and Joyce {Worley}.

He was also a forerunner and trailblazer with preservation, he gave the founders of Out-of-Print Archive permission to archive his works, which we have done many of already with many more to go. Bill was open to the reasons for an archive like OoPA and openly supported us at every opportunity.

I was fortunate enough to interview Bill while with Retromags.com, http://www.retromags...__1#entry20532.

We will miss you Bill. You rocked the world at every step you took. We will remember you every time we open a VG&CE issue and see your column, or read a review you wrote, or a forum post on the web.