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| Absolutely MAD Magazine - 50+ Years | 
 enlarge | From: Git Corporation
Category: Software
List Price: $44.99
Buy New: $29.50
You Save: $15.49 (34%)
New (13) Used (1) from $23.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 112
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Mac Os X, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.5
MPN: 90005
Model: 90005
UPC: 791149900053
EAN: 0791149900053
ASIN: B000HKMQ64
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Loved it January 28, 2008
My mum collected Mad magazines in the 60's and 70's, and I loved reading them in the 70's and 80's. Over the years, her copies have torn, been mislaid, or just disappeared. I bought this to give to her for her birthday in August this year, and I had to "test it out" :)
It's fantastic - the memories came flooding back, and the articles, sketches, comics and parodies were as fresh in my mind now as they were almost 40 years ago.
The DVD is well organised, and the menu system allows you to easily find the magazine you are looking for. And because they're all scanned in PDF format, you can view them on pretty much any computer.
The quality of the scan is excellent - and even the fold-ins are reproduced!
Excellent value for money, and I'm happy I purchased this. Just don't tell mum yet. :)
 Had To Have It January 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I started reading MAD in the mid 70's when I was 9 years old. I still buy a copy every once in awhile. I bought this DVD so I could have all of 'em together without dragging all those boxes out of the hall closet. Plus I don't have all the issues so I can see what I've missed over the years. I think the reprodution pretty good. I admit some of the images could be a little sharper, but some are probably scans of the original prints (print shops didn't back up plate images to discs 50 years ago) so therefore the color and register aren't perfect everywhere, but that's kind of authentic because you're seeing the magazine just like you would if you bought it off of a news stand way back when. I would have been nice if they had included a gallery of all those little cartoons they used to put around the borders as they are kind of hard to see on my computer screen without blowing them way up. All in all a good quality product and a must have for MAD fans. Also, it would be nice to see a disc with stuff from all of those MAD paperback books I used to collect. I realize a lot of the content in the paperback was just reprints from the mag, but there's quit a bit of original stuff in them as well.
MAD Magazine Archives DVD December 31, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Came in about 8 days - plenty of time to send to my brother for Christmas. Was new in package.
Excellent! December 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wonderful!
No strange software/driver/player to install: just plain PDF files with clickable index.
I couldn't want more.
Leo
 Excellent Product, Terrible Packaging December 28, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This product is a comprehensive digital presentation of Mad magazine. It made a perfect gift for my father, who had all his original copies destroyed by his unruly children once we discovered them (30 year old magazines with "fold-ins" don't hold up well in the hands of eight year olds).
The packaging is terrible, however. The item arrived damaged but I do not see any way it could not have been, based on the design (all paper, double thick in all the wrong parts, ready to be smashed into an accordian-like thing in the mail). The DVD was inserted into the packaging but had come loose. It needed to be cleaned before being played due to scratches.
If there is a second edition, I would look to the recent digital re-prints of Rolling Stone and Playboy for better packaging ideas.
Still, the DVD itself was well worth the price.
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