pooling money for vintage pachinko magazines Play Graph group buy on YJA

[cait001]

Hello pachinko fans, we need you! We are looking to pool money to purchase and scan old pachinko magazines.
I'm part of a group called Gaming Alexandria that has scanned and posted hundreds and hundreds of arcade and game magazines to The Internet Archive at 600 DPI.
We have our eyes on 14 issues of the vintage pachinko magazine Playgraph. (See screenshots) They will probably go for about 7500 yen each.

If you can help us, I'm looking for lump-sum pledges or per-issue pledges. Last round, most people pledged 1000 yen per issue. I personally pledged about 20,000 yen total. We won 3 issues (images below, scans forthcoming) but were outbid on most issues.
Money can be sent by PayPal to me thetastates@gmail.com (any currency) and at the bottom I will link a bit more of what I do for those who do not know me.

These are the magazines we are currently looking to purchase:
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There are the 3 magazines we've already won. When they arrive they will be scanned at 600 DPI and upload to The Internet Archive.
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I have also put this ask on Facebook in the Pachinko Machines group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/8708...11810569568516

Here is a link to the Scans tag on my blog so you can see some of the purchases I've made and shared https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/search/label/scans
my blog entries about pachinko specifically: https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/s...label/Pachinko
More about Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/
Browse through this to see what one of our scanners has uploaded: https://archive.org/details/@revengeofthehubz
another one of our scanners: https://archive.org/details/@chuulimta
my IA uploads are minimal, because I send most of my stuff to friends, buhttps://archive.org/details/@cait001

Feel free to ask me any questions about this. Hopefully we can pool enough money to secure all of these issues. The community will all be able to share in the bountiful returns of seeing our favourite machines as they existed in industry magazines when they were first released.

These late 70s / early 80s mags also feature arrangeballs, btw!

[cait001]

note: I have also shared a few pictures of the insides of the magazines, from the auction listings, on the facebook post that I linked above

[cait001]

Monday bump! Thank you to the three who have sent donations so far. For this batch, we have received money to purchase approximately 3 of the 16 issues. Thank you!
I will be contributing 2000 yen per issue and another donor is contributing 1000 yen per issue.
If we get more donations we can keep growing the number of issues.

[cait001]

We have received two more donations:
A Pledge of 1200 yen per issue (we are now at 4200 yen per issue)
and $10 USD which increases our standalone donation pool to $120 (~17,700 yen)
That means we can afford to bid on 4 issues @ 8000 yen each, and the more donations we gather, the more Playgraph issues will be purchased and shared publicly! wooot

[cait001]

Come on people, you know you want to see this
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[cait001]

we are now at 4700 yen per issue in pledges! If you can contribute, please do consider it. We can get these!!

[cait001]

woke up to another ~$10 donation, thank you

[cait001]

We won all of the recent auctions! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this. The magazines will arrive from Japan within a month, and then slowly but surely these issues will get digitized over the next year.
Combined with the prior 3 we bought, we all have these scans to look forward to:
1978-01 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-02 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-03 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-04 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-05 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-06 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-08 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-09 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-10 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-11 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1978-12 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1980-01 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1982-01 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1982-02 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1982-04 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1983-09 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1983-11 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1984-07 Play Graph プレイグラフ
1984-09 Play Graph プレイグラフ

[MrGneiss]

Nice!!

[cait001]

who is ready for this succulent bounty? https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2...203050608.html

[MrGneiss]

Rad!!