Forum LEVEL

That is why we have agreed with the Pilsen company EXON , which operates professional large-format scanners and special software, thanks to which it can convert Levels into digital form in maximum quality. You can download a small sample now .

In any case, it will not be an easy job. After all, judge for yourself how huge Level's archive really is. LEVEL, that's…

• 314 numbers
• 37 626 pages
• 4683 reviews
• 528 interviews
• 1290 topics
• 162 authors

Of course, scanning so many texts is not free. But at Starter, it's not just about money, but also about finding out if you're interested in Level's digital archive at all. We believe that it can be useful and entertaining not only for former and current readers , but also for academics, developers and others who are interested in the development of pop culture and especially games.

Print media were once the lifeblood of the gaming community, and now a new generation of lovingly assembled periodicals are bringing the scene back to life

Readers weren’t just consumers, they were acolytes. Magazines were like football teams: if you read PC Gamer, you didn’t go near PC Zone; if you loved Computer and Video Games magazine, you side-eyed Mean Machines. Like the old rivalry between NME and Melody Maker, the actual content of the magazines was almost secondary to the gang affiliation. These things mattered.