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National Lampoon [Old Version]

by GIT Corp

Platform : Windows Vista, Mac, Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000

58 customer reviews

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A total of 246 original magazines from 1970 through 1998.
NATIONAL LAMPOON began as a publishing venture in 1970, led by comic geniuses Doug Kenney, Henry Beard and magazine publisher Matty Simmons.
The magazine quickly established itself as the most shocking, subversive, and unpredictable mass-circulation magazine ever,
From revolutionizing the magazine industry to launching the careers of some of comedy's most honored performers and writers,
From movies to books to radio to TV to the web, the NATIONAL LAMPOON has been breaking the barriers of humor and good taste since its inception.
NATIONAL LAMPOON has forever changed the face of humor ¿ and American culture.

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National Lampoon Monthly Magazine Collection

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Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
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ASIN: B000VPNSJY
Item model number: 90012
Date first listed on Amazon: May 26, 2004
Average Customer Review: 58 customer reviews
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Quality art and writing marred by lousy scans

December 10, 2007

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I was really excited to finally have a collection of these classic issues in their entirety.

It would have been even better if they were readable.

Some scans were cropped too tightly, and cut off text or parts of a photograph. Other scans had crummy exposure, resulting in dark photos and filled-in, unreadable reverse type. Some scans went the other direction, rendering black print as light gray. And still other scans are inexplicably blurry.

It's not just the photos and drawings that suffer, either. The scans were done at too low a resolution to capture the small type in some of the articles and ads, so you'll have a hard time reading those.

Quality control on the final scans is nonexistent. No attempt was made to correct density levels or colors on any of the scanned pages -- or even to match densities on double-page spreads. The result is an annoying mish-mash of too-light or too-dark pages with wildly varying brightness, contrast, sharpness, and color density. By what amounts to sheer luck, some of the pages look, eh, not bad.

A few of the scanned magazines had leftover bind-in ad inserts attached to them, and these inserts were inexcusably scanned as pages in and of themselves. Sheesh!

Clearly, this is a slapped-together project straight out of an automated scanning farm. It might have been better if the publisher of this compilation had outsourced the scanning of these magazines to some offshore outfit that could have hand-corrected the images as they came off the scanner. It probably would have only cost pennies per magazine to vastly improve the scan quality.

Bottom line, this collection is a great concept with a deeply flawed execution. It's a disappointment. The artwork, photography, and writing in the old National Lampoon magazines was of the highest caliber -- it's hard to find anything published today that's as sophisticated and incisive. Too bad this DVD compilation doesn't live up to that standard.

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Half of a product

December 7, 2007

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National Lampoon at this point is an icon. To people of a certain age, they remember the counter-culture magazine that pushed the boundaries in every conceivable direction. For younger people, the name is associated with cheesy titillation movies. The magazine itself was usually funny, and had a bit of an underground cachet about it.

Well, they've brought it back in the form of a bunch of PDF files that take about 7 gigabytes on a DVD-ROM. It's basically every page of every issue, including (thankfully!) the ads which tended towards stereo equipment, male "protection", beer & liquor, and cigarette ads. [personally, I love the old stereo receiver ads because they had a couple that I wanted to buy, couldn't afford, and by the time I could, they didn't make them anymore!]

It works fine on a windows PC, and I'm guessing it would work fine on a Mac, provided you installed the Adobe reader.

But there are two problems. First, the scans are only fair. It looks like in some cases the magazines themselves were damaged, but even when that didn't happen, the quality is no better than you or I just scanning a magazine at home. However, what really spoils this collection is that there was no attempt to turn this into something that was searchable and indexable because each page is simply a photograph of the page with no attempt at OCR or transcription.

And while it doesn't spoil a trip down memory lane, it does make you wish they'd spent more money, asked for $10 more and given us something that would be a lot more fun.

As it is, for those who remember, it's a trip worth every penny of the $33 Amazon is asking for it. But it frustrates you because it could have been so much more.

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Alan Dale Henderson

Regardless of imperfections - Five stars

December 19, 2010

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NatLamp was by far my Holy Grail in 1970s-1980s. Nothing brought me more laughs while also motivating me to keep up with current events at the time. The other reviews here cover all the shortfalls of this collection but, for me, having this massive amount of material digitized is utterly fantastic. As to missing content - I will keep my eyes open through Amazon, EBay, etc. for the individual issues. At the price offered the size/scope of the collection is unbelievable. If you enjoyed the Lampoon BUY THIS!

Hopefully this will also be of help if you have technical issues with the DVD. When it arrived I popped it right into my laptop pc running windows 7. It couldn't initiate autorun and I was unable to access the disk as the laptop was unable to recognize it at all. I tried a half-dozen times but had no luck. I then put it into my 2010 Mac desktop and it showed up immediately. The autorun did not start but I could easily go directly into the DVD and access the files. I then copy/pasted them to the Mac's drive and was able to transfer them (via flash) over to the laptop. They are PDF so no problem once they were accessible. Hopefully anyone buying the DVD will be able to do something similar, it is well worth the effort.

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