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| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Broderbund |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, Yes, it works in XP. Even if you don't! Also works in NT, ME, 98 and 95., A 7-CDROM set with over 22,000 pages of MAD on 500+ issues, including all cover variations! Includes all the Super Specials, for those with special needs., Powerful and flexible search engine helps you locate everything quickly and easily. Search by feature, year, artist, writer, subject matter, and more! Print any area you select, and then line your birdcage with it!, Includes multimedia content with sound, video and animation, fold-ins, a desktop theme, and images of bonus items such as stickers, posters, maps, postcards, and labels - plus a few other things that might have slipped in by mistake., It's out of print, so what are you waiting for? |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| UPC: | 628553012440 |
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Customer Reviews of Totally MAD: Every Issue of MAD Magazine from 1952-1998 on CD-ROM (PC)
Potrzebie, Veeblefetzer, Max Korn, and Arthur the Plant Prior to discovering the high-hilarity-in-print that is the Onion and the Weekly World News, Mad Magazine was the one and only satirical publication I'd pick up on a regular basis. When I discovered this CD-ROM set that included every single monthly issue from the early fifties all the way through '98, I grabbed a copy and gave it a whirl... <
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>- It takes up far less space than the entire 1952-98 run of comic books and magazines. <
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>- The Search-o-Meter has been very helpful in helping me find my fave movie & TV show parodies. <
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>- Includes several animated Spy vs. Spy and Sergio Aragonés marginal shorts as originally shown on Mad TV. <
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>- Also includes several "Mad radio minute" spots. <
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>- I can finally fold those Al Jaffee Fold-Ins without ruining the "mint" condition of the CD-ROM! <
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>Sadly, I discovered a few drawbacks as well: <
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>- The clarity and resolution of the pages aren't as high as I'd hoped. While there is a magnification feature where you can "zoom in" on a section of a page, even with this there are still some times where the words are barely legible. Although I'm sure this development is due to the CD-ROM set's producers wanting to put as much as they can on as few CDs as possible, I'm still a bit miffed by it. I wouldn't have minded if they put all of the issues on ten or twelve CD-ROMs if it meant better clarity and resolution! Then again, itmight have been due to them using a low-quality scanner... <
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>- This set includes just the material that appeared in the monthly issues. I made this unfortunate discovery when I tried to access "How to be an Effective Dog" as well as some of Don Martin's extra-periodical efforts for Mad. There I was, looking for "Don Martin Forges Ahead", "Don Martin Bounces Back", and those hard-to-find "Big Books" of his... and comin' up empty. <
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>- The Mad radio spots are kinda dumb... even dumber than the average Mad TV episode! <
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>- There was one fold-in Al Jaffee did back in the 60s featuring the Beatles; it's the only one he ever did that didn't fold vertically. However, the CD-ROM version of this particular fold-in DOES fold vertically... which means the gag doesn't quite work out. <
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>Bottom line: If you're simply mad about the monthly issues of Mad magazine, and you can afford the fairly expensive asking price for this out-of-production collection, and you have a PC with a reasonably high-speed CD-ROM drive and at least a Windows 98 OS, and you have really good eyesight to make out the occasional not-so-clear page, then this bad-boy might be right up yer alley! Oh yeah, and watch out for falling bricks... <
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A Mad Fan's Dream
NOTE: I do not own the complete set. If anyone could tell me where I could get a complete (and I mean everything included) set, that would be helpful. I am covering 1969-1974.
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>This is a very flexible, and wildly humorous set that lives out the potential of this magazine. I will now list off the main features, as written on the back:
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>View pages with startling (and disturbing) clarity. High-quality pages of low-quality humor offer excellent readability!
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>Powerful and flexible search engine helps you locate everything quickly and easily. Search by feature, year, artist, writer, subject matter, and more!
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>Print any area you select (and then line your birdcage with it)!
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>Flexible viewing tools help you zoom, rotate, and read the magazine any way you want (where permissable by law).
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>Browse Mad Magazine covers or jump to any issue! (It's our program that jumps; you stay seated the entire time!)
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>Mad Fold-Ins that fold before your very eyes! (Eyes sold separately.)
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>The Fold-Ins are a lot of fun to read and fold, and you might even print off a few of 'em. This is a classic (albeit disturbing) magazine, and this set treats it with the respect it deserves! If you can find one anywhere (other than here, because it doesn't have an outer box), go get it NOW! An I, in the meantime, will try to get Amazon to find FULL sets and get them in stock to buy.