Looking for a 'Database' of Video game Posters for PC(as in the magazines back then had in the middle) from the late '90s and early '00s
Posted by Pitiful_Reach6548@reddit | retrobattlestations | View on Reddit | 16 comments
As i ask in the title I am looking for posters and wallpapers like in the oldschool video game magazines had in the earky '00s and before, In the middle of the magazines or something, and I am not searhing individual game posters, but like a "database" I am looking for where these kind of pictures are kinda stored in big resolution.
Thank you!
MaxjkZERO@reddit
Someone already suggested Archive.org, but you may also try MobyGames, which has a section for "Promos", which you may find like print ads and stuff, like here's one for Blood (1997): https://www.mobygames.com/game/980/blood/promo/group-111565/image-866720/
Pitiful_Reach6548@reddit (OP)
Man, this mobygames is really good! I have to search for individual games, but thats the least of my concerns now, because its very hard to find COLLECTIONS packed together.
MaxjkZERO@reddit
Yeah the only good ways I can see right now are just to either look at things on a game-by-game basis, or look thru entire magazine scans
You might get lucky if people out there have done like a Pintrest board or a Public Google Photos album of some of their favorites that they've compiled, but then you're gonna be limiting yourself to whatever they were able to find, so its nice to go back towards more primary sources
Pitiful_Reach6548@reddit (OP)
Im looking trough thr magazine scans, I found the best magazine we had back then here (PC GURU), and have the scans from -90s to all the way up to today. (Archive.org.)
Sadly, these savings of the magazine does not scanned in the Posters in the middle of the magazine. :)
Still able to browse troguh other magazines on archive, but yeah, tedious.
Does this Moby site have a high resolution search filter?? I did not find a way to set it.
Yes, i found some of those collections even here on reddit, but its ads only... Nothing remotely similar yet ....
MaxjkZERO@reddit
It looks like you only get access to the full resolution of their scans if you pay, and I dont think there's a way to just browse by "games that have magazine promos" normally
BUT, if you know programming stuff, you may be able to throw something together, they have a hobbyiest API that you can get to use their catalog, AND they bundle their premium version of the site with it for like $12/month, so i guess if you're looking to do it short term, its only $12 then you unsubscribe
Pitiful_Reach6548@reddit (OP)
Yeah, I found i have to pay for big resolution. No way, as many of the pictures are free on the net. Im gonna try pinterest, because thats where i found the pictures im looking for, i have to hack the site to be able to downlosd the pictures in high resolution though :D
MaxjkZERO@reddit
you may be able to just use mobygames to find new images, then do a reverse image search for the higher quality lol
Pitiful_Reach6548@reddit (OP)
I could do the same on pinterest, its much easier to find the picture there, just have to reverse image search there too
Pitiful_Reach6548@reddit (OP)
Well yes, something like this,thanks for MobyGames.
Also, i found the releases of the video game magazines in my country(and also foreign country magazines), in the era I mentioned on Archive, Many of the prints have posters on the middle, thats what Im searching for, but its tedious to search all of them, and may of them is 2 pagesÂ
(half of the picture is on one sides, the other half on the other page, and some is even not in good order, so If I want those, I still have to edit them together in an outside program)
Seems what I am looking for is pretty Niche.
These ad like posters are good too, but the exact kind of posters im looking for are not ad posters, they are posters of the game, but seems they are the Video Game magazin's edit, because they are nowhere to be found on the net.
But i thought i will find these kinda a posters on the internet, it seems its very related to thr magazines itself, they are not the regular:
"Half life 1 game poster" or similar searches dont get me where I want. thank you, im getting closer!
Itchy_Actuator_2924@reddit
Loved that add as a wee lad had it on the wall. Pc gamer magazine
Nerevarine44@reddit
eXoDOS’ Media addon pack could be what you are looking for:
https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos_M.html
Pitiful_Reach6548@reddit (OP)
Well, yeah, that would it be, but I'm looking for PC games. 1998-2005
Itchy_Actuator_2924@reddit
That was in pc gamer magazine, had it on my childhood walls many years.
Immediate-Sink-8494@reddit
https://archive.org/
You'll have to go through and find the issues of the magazines with the posters and hope there is a hi-dpi scan of it. Afaik there is no singular database.
Pitiful_Reach6548@reddit (OP)
Yes, I'm searching it that way, but it's not 100% necessary to be exact prints of the issues, just, in general, a collection of high definition old school OC games, from that era.
Accurate-Campaign821@reddit
Interesting, it seems to have 2 ATI video cards