Absolutely MAD Magazine - 50+ Years
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Software Reviews of Absolutely MAD Magazine - 50+ Years
Customer Review: Not absolutely complete, but amazing nonetheless
Summary: 4 Stars
First of all, this played perfectly on a Windows 7 machine, so it will work on Vista. Yep, all of the first 6 editions are here, fairly nicely accessible through the Adobe PDF interface. And the MAD fold-ins are clickable - click once and it shows you the folded up version (kinda cute). BUT - having said all this, while it does indeed show the covers of the various special editions and compilations that came out over the years, it doesn't have the bonuses that came with them; no sound files, no cutouts (pity, they could've been printed out), no stickers, etc. But a ton of this stuff isn't available anywhere else, including the books. All in all, it's worth every penny of 25 bucks!Customer Review: Don't get even.... Get MAD!
Summary: 4 Stars
What fun to look through the MAD Magazine pages again, and many that I've NEVER had a chance to read even if I am old enough to have done so 8-)
I have to say that I've wanted this MAD magazine collection since it first came out in version one by a different company YEARS ago but didn't like the high price tag of the day..
Turns out that I'm glad I did wait as now it's all on one DVD and can be had for half the original price.
I find all the scans just fine so far, quality does not seem to suffer to my eye.. of course, I have not gone though all 50+ years worth yet so could find a clinker scan here or there in the future, but don't think I'd be upset as long as I could read it. I really don't expect to find any though.
Was also great to find all the content is PDF format, allows you to view the way you like, AND not need to actually install it as software, as long as you have a PDF viewer you can look at everything right off the DVD without using up HD space.
Of course it helps to be totally MAD about the magazine, and I'm sure most younger people will not find anything funny in the issues that pre-date their birth, but there are some "Hip" people among the newer generations too.
Customer Review: Terrible scan quality
Summary: 2 Stars
It's great to have all these Mad magazine issues on a single disc, but the scanning quality STINKS. I compared some original paper issues from 1978 to their scanned versions, and the difference is huge. The scanned text is blurry, and the pictures just lose their appealing qualities. Whatever scan resolution Git-Corp used, it wasn't good enough.
I own several other Git-Corp DVD-ROMs (for Marvel comics) and love them. This Mad DVD is a dud.
Customer Review: Banzai Mad Magazine!
Summary: 5 Stars
I read Mad Magazine on and off as a kid, so it's great to be able to see the old magazine I had before, as well as the ones I haven't yet had a chance to see.
The resolution of the PDF files is pretty good. I think it's a nice package.
RF
Tokyo
Customer Review: A Second Generation Disappoinment
Summary: 2 Stars
Before there was a National Lampoon, there was Mad Magazine. Us Baby Boomers grew up with it. It was our first taste of satire and critical thinking. And Mad Magazine has not outlived it's usefulness as did the National Lampoon. Mad still satires today as good as it did yesterday, although most of the original cartoonists and editors have died.
Years ago, Broderbund came out with a 7 CD ROM package of all the Mad Magazines printed. It had a superior user interface which quickly located every article and cartoon in the collection. It even had every fold in and sticker collection. And it had the infamous MAD songs included.
This DVD collection is a poor substitute. It claims also to have all the stickers- I've yet to find them in the collection. Compared to the Broderbund collection this version is boring and a pain to search.
This is a case where so called improved technology made a disaster of one of the funniest magazines in existance.