The Adventurer scans

13 Sep, 2011, 04:24 | Posted by: Zaarin | Source: Lucasarts Adventurer blog

Reader vastcool has just informed us of his Lucasarts Adventurer blog over here where he's putting up scans of The Adventurer, the magazine which was included with North American releases of LucasArts games in the 1990s. So far he's posted issues 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, and 12.

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Comment by: whipwarrior | Posted 21 Sep, 2011, 09:53 | Quote
Do you have Issue #3 (Fall 1991 edition) about Fate of Atlantis? I've been looking forward to reading that issue for years! :-)

EDIT: 9/28—Thanks a million! :-)
Comment by: Jennifer | Posted 14 Sep, 2011, 04:01 | Quote
There is no 13. LucasArts skipped it because 13 is considered unlucky. 14 is the last issue of the Adventurer.
Comment by: Scummbuddy | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 23:57 | Quote
I'm a liar; more comments.

I archive.org'd LucasArts.com and at least they also have web-versioned copies of 9, 10, 11, 12, 14. None earlier, and no 13, and no more after 14(?). Fantastic track record. Around the time of Grim Fandango being noted, "The Adventurer" link changed to "Adventurer Archives" which took you to a link that may have been flash, or had some intro page that wasn't copied on archive.org.

Around Feb-May of 1999 they just dropped the Adventurer Archives off the site.
Comment by: Scummbuddy | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 23:16 | Quote
Last comment for now, as I don't know if my comment will post on his site, on Adventurer 8, he is missing page 14. Maybe it was overlooked.
Comment by: Scummbuddy | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 23:15 | Quote
Oh, and I found in my scans Winter 95, Adventurer 11.
Nice thing about this one is that it wasn't newspaper size, so it's basically ready to upload.
Comment by: Scummbuddy | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 23:13 | Quote
Looking through my scans, I see that I have Adventurer 6. Unfortunately, I didn't have a proper sized scanner at the time, so each newspaper page is split and would need to be fit together, and I don't know if I have the time to bother. I could just rescan it and it would likely be a huge save in time.
Comment by: Scummbuddy | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 23:10 | Quote
Each Adventurer deserves its own retrospective article. Things to cover could be "Can you believe they put articles on adventure games before Star Wars games?" and so on.
Comment by: Melancholick | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 13:51 | Quote
Oh, it was a rapturous day in the Cholick household whenever one of these babies would manifest itself in our mailbox.

Good times, good times. Thanks for passing this one on, and BIG ups to the original scan-ster.
Comment by: Ascovel | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 12:29 | Quote
And Ron Gilbert reveals the secret of Monkey Island in issue 4!
Comment by: Call me Squinky | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 10:59 | Quote
The interview with Tim Schafer in issue 10 is pretty awesome, check it out.
Comment by: Logic | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 07:33 | Quote
wowzers. I had completely forgotten that I really wanted to check these out. Cheers, vastcool.
Comment by: Ascovel | Posted 13 Sep, 2011, 06:41 | Quote
These scans are what I've been waiting for... most of my life!

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