Anyone remember PCXL?

[Leathco]

Otherwise known as PC Accelerator, this was my go-to PC Gaming mag in the late 90's. Loved this mags sense of humor and attitude, it had a personality that PC Gamer never had. It died in June 2000, and my subscription was switched to PC Gamer, which was pretty lame after enjoying the attitude that PC Accelerator had. Editor Mike Salmon went on to the Official X-Box Magazine, and a lot of the others went to the old Daily Radar gaming site before it too died.

PC Gamer had a PCXL Special hit newstands in 2007, but since then not a peep about PCXL. I am fairly sure a full scan would be easy to do for the series, as the mag was only around for two or three years if I remember correctly, however I can't find copies ANYWHERE. I usually hit e-bay about once a month or so checking, and this one never comes up.

[marktrade]

Welcome to the forum, Leathco. Yeah, I remember PCXL. Definitely a unique mag that I want to see scanned. I already have one issue up that I scanned because I thought it was an issue of another magazine I hadn't heard of. It appears with the title "PC Action" on the cover but it's just another issue of PCXL. Here it is with the discs.

PC Accelerator 06 Feb 1999

https://archive.org/details/PCXL0299D1

I'll work on getting another couple issues up tomorrow.

[Leathco]

Wow that's awesome man! Thanks! Like I said I keep checking ebay for issues but haven't had any luck.

[marktrade]

Wow that's awesome man! Thanks! Like I said I keep checking ebay for issues but haven't had any luck.

That might be because I've been buying them up in the past couple months! In addition to issue 06 I have thirteen more issues. I'll try to get them uploaded in one batch this week (unedited for now but very readable).

[Areala]

I have a few issues of this magazine myself (Nov. and Dec. '99, and March 2000 off the top of my head [stevie Case...oh dear me...!], although I'm sure I have more than that).

They liked putting pretty girls on the covers.

I was (am) a sucker for pretty girls... *giggle*

*huggles*
Areala

[marktrade]

I will try to have them up in a couple days!

[Leathco]

Sounds really good guys! I'm pretty sure the mag had a short run, would be cool to get them all up. Not sure about others but that was my favorite PC mag. PC Gamer just wasn't the same. I'll keep checking E-Bay for issues!

[marktrade]

Enjoy! 13 more issues of PCXL.

https://archive.org/...s/pcxl_unedited

Some of them still need work and the file sizes are very large. I have never seen a magazine with text as small as PCXL so I decided to be on the safe side.

[Leathco]

Wow, that's a big chunk of them! I'll try to get them pulled down this weekend. Thank you again!