Famitsu

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1. 

   Famitsu Issue 0258 (November 26, 1993)

   By MigJmz

   Famitsu Issue 0258 (November 26, 1993)
   

   411 downloads

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   Submitted October 15, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0259 (December 3, 1993)

   By MigJmz

   Famitsu Issue 0259 (December 3, 1993)
   

   427 downloads

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   Submitted August 14, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0455 (September 5 1997)

   By marktrade

   Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon
   

   1,071 downloads

   3 comments

   Updated July 29, 2018

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   Famitsu Issue 0555 (August 6 1999)

   By marktrade

   Nagase Reiko
   

   914 downloads

   1 comment

   Updated July 29, 2018

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   Famitsu Issue 0571 (November 26, 1999)

   By MigJmz

   Famitsu Issue 0571 (November 26, 1999)
   Would you like more Japanese scans like these? Consider contributing to JhonnyD's patreon.
   

   357 downloads

   0 comments

   Submitted June 8, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0666 (September 21, 2001)

   By bogusfrank

   Famitsu Issue 0666 (September 21, 2001)

   387 downloads

   2 comments

   Updated May 11, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0669 (October 12, 2001)

   By kitsunebi

   Scanned 6 months ago, I've finally gotten around to finishing the editing on this.  But what's an extra 6 months when you've been already been waiting since 2001 to get a copy of this issue? 😋  And remember, if you enjoy scans like this, be sure to click the "like" button .  It's such a small thing to do, but your scanners will greatly appreciate it, I assure you. (Just be sure do do it here at Retromags where we'll see it, not somewhere else like a new release post on facebook or twitter)
   This scan was made for everyone, so please download it, share it with your friends and enjoy! If you share this scan elsewhere, please say that the file is from Retromags, where you can download it for free. Magazine preservation is for everyone. Thank you!
   このスキャンは皆のために作ったので、ぜひダウンロードして、友達に伝いて、楽しんでください！もしほかのところでこのスキャンを分け合ったら、そこで「このファイルはRetromagsからで、そこでタダでダウンロードすることできる」と伝いて下さい。雑誌電子化は皆のために。よろしくお願いします！
   PS: Please don't upload this file to the Internet Archive.  K thnx bye!
   

   742 downloads

   2 comments

   Updated February 2, 2020

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   Famitsu Issue 0808 (June 11, 2004)

   By bogusfrank

   Famitsu Issue 0808 (June 2004)
   

   463 downloads

   0 comments

   Updated May 11, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0813 (July 16, 2004)

   By bogusfrank

   Famitsu Issue 0813 (July 2004)
   

   353 downloads

   1 comment

   Updated May 11, 2022

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    Famitsu Issue 1318 (March 20, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    This issue hit around the time of the PS4 launch, making the weekly sales chart look a little lopsided:
    
    That's the PS4 standing alone on top with 322,083 units sold, with the next best selling system being the 3DS with 30,284 units sold.  Congrats to the Xbox360, which managed to outsell the last-gen Wii with a whopping 239 units sold.  It's not often you see a Microsoft system anywhere but dead last in Japan, so thank goodness 148 people bought a 7 1/2-year-old Wii that week, giving the poor 360 a chance to have an edge over something.
    As an aside, I just flipped through an issue of the UK's GamesTM mag lately, and it had the results of a reader poll where the 360 was voted the best console OF ALL TIME.
    Cultural differences make the world interesting.
    

    53 downloads

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    Submitted November 30

11. 

    Famitsu Issue 1319 (March 27, 2014) (supplement included)

    By kitsunebi

    This issue includes a Dark Souls II supplement book, which I've appended to the end of the archive.
    Ah, supplements...I've been guilty of it myself once or twice in the past, but releasing supplements separately from the magazines they belong to is a practice I'll no longer be a part of, unless of course, I have a supplement but for some reason DON'T have the mag it came from (as was the case with many of the supplements I scanned, which were thrown in as part of a donation years ago.)  I like to adhere to the primary definition of the word.
    supplement /sŭp′lə-mənt/ noun Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole. So please enjoy this magazine, complete with supplement. 🙂
    260pgs
    

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    Submitted November 25

12. 

    Famitsu Issue 1320 (April 3, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    The highest rated game this issue is a tie between girlfriend simulator Love Plus + and the latest Hatsune Miku game (she who is also known as The Vocaloid Who Married A Real Boy™), both of which got the exceptional Platinum scores of 10 9 9 9.  But don't worry, there are also a few romance games aimed at women in their teens and twenties which are well reviewed, so digital romancing is an equal opportunity endeavor.  And for the older gentleman who just doesn't give a $%^# about trying to please the opposite sex anymore, there's the latest game in the Winning Post horse racing sim series, which also nabbed a Platinum score and allows you to focus on romance of the equine variety, playing matchmaker in order to breed a champion money-maker.  Anyone looking for a game with guns 'n' 'splosions is reading the wrong mag - Famitsu only covers games released in Japan, and those types of game are few and far between.
     
    Confessions of love, Japanese style
    
    They're all proposing to the rich old man who breeds the champion race horses, of course.
    

    53 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted November 15

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    Famitsu Issue 1321 (April 10, 2014) (supplements included)

    By kitsunebi

    Complete with both supplements.  First being a Kantai Collection (KanKore) manga, and the second being a double-sided B3 poster for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd.  If you don't know who Hatsune Miku is, she's the vocaloid software/singer on the cover of this issue, star of many Sega video games, and the happily married for 6-years wife of this completely normal and well-adjusted Japanese man:
    
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/2508555/japanese-man-celebrates-six-years-with-cartoon-bride
    What is this place I live in...
    

    67 downloads

    6 comments

    Submitted November 12

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    Famitsu Issue 1328 (May 29, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    This issue's cover is by Tony Taka, a famous artist and character designer known just as well for his work in mainstream games like Sega's Shining series as he is for numerous adult manga and eroge.  In stark contrast to America, Japan is more like Europe in this way - having some of their most famous and successful comics artists known for producing adult material. 
    This cover features Kirika Towa Alma, one of Taka's characters from Shining Resonance for the PS3.  According to the Shining Wiki, "she is an elf who learns the song of magic which allows her to freely change the power of nature. However, she is a better healer than a damage dealer. She may seem withdrawn at first, but she is generally known to be a kind person."
    
     
    But more importantly,
    
    Tony Taka, ladies and gentlemen.👏
    

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    Updated November 9

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    Famitsu Issue 1329 (June 5, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    It's been a couple of days since the Dodgers won the World Series and Japan couldn't be happier.  We even got to watch the end of game 5 during lunch at school.  You know, kind of like how we got to watch space shuttle launches in American schools.  It's that important, what with Shohei Ohtani being a national hero, and all.  A lot of people may think he's so beloved because he's such a great baseball player.  Others may think he's respected because he's so successful - the highest paid baseball player, EVER.
    They're wrong, of course.  The reason Ohtani is a hero is because he's somehow managed to overcome the crippling clumsiness that normally afflicts all Japanese males from puberty onward.  The entire nation beams with pride as they watch him walk in a straight line without even once tripping and falling onto a female in a compromising position
    
    or stumbling face first into the crotch of the nearest female wearing a short skirt
    
    or accidentally taking a tumble and saving himself from falling by reaching out and grabbing two handfulls of boobs and clinging on for all he's worth BUT HE TOTALLY DIDN'T MEAN TO THO.
    
    Yeah, he knows what I'm talking about.
                       
    

    69 downloads

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    Updated November 2

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    Famitsu Issue 1332 (June 26, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    Interesting how the cover article on Bloodborne starts immediately on page 2 (the inside front cover.)  That space is usually reserved for what I assume are the most expensive ads (in addition to the cover, the first several pages of Famitsu are printed on thicker, glossier paper than the rest of the mag), so I'm guessing Sony paid a %#$!load of cash to get Famitsu to give that space up for the feature on Bloodborne.
    214 pages
    

    111 downloads

    5 comments

    Submitted October 18

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    Famitsu Issue 1333 (July 3/10, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    256 pages
    Don't get too excited about the included supplement.  Despite being trumpeted on the cover, it's just an "illustration card."  What's that?  Good question.  It's basically a regular-page-sized poster printed on cardstock.  What purpose it serves is a mystery.  But hey, you're still getting a mag two and a half times the length and several bucks cheaper than any of the English-language mags published at the time, so what are you complaining about?
    

    86 downloads

    3 comments

    Submitted October 14

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    Famitsu Issue 1335 (July 17, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    In what is probably a first for Famitsu, only a single game is reviewed this issue: Yokai Watch 2.  I don't think Yokai Watch ever made much of a splash overseas, but I remember how intensely popular it was here for a time, so I wouldn't be surprised if all the other publishers shied away from releasing anything else that same week, since nothing would have been able to compete.
    And speaking of things whose popularity ain't what it used to be, if you were wondering who those garishly dressed girls on the cover were, good luck figuring out how THIS got 17 million views:
     
    

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    Submitted October 12

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    Famitsu Issue 1336 (July 24, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    I've been living in Japan for 16 years but I'm always reminded that I'll never truly fit in with the locals.  Case in point, I've never owned a full-body waifu pillow or a boob-rest mousepad.
    
    

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    1 comment

    Submitted October 4

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    Famitsu Issue 1337 (July 31, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    236 pgs
    Idol Pikachu chooses YOU!
    
    

    80 downloads

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    Submitted October 3

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    Famitsu Issue 1338 (August 7, 2014) (supplement included)

    By kitsunebi

    The included supplement is for Bandai's Net Carddass cards (unfortunate name...) which are trading cards bought in packs that are used to play online games.  A meeting of the physical and digital worlds, and something I don't think ever caught on outside of Japan, though I could be wrong.
    Today's trivia: The very first Pokemon cards, before the TCG existed, were produced by Carddass.
    252 pages
    

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    Submitted September 30

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    Famitsu Issue 1340/1341 (August 21/28, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    So big it's bursting out.
    
     
    Actually, I was talking about the mag itself.  A whopping 338 pages.  
    Of
    SERIOUS.
    GAMING.
    JOURNALISM.
     
    Like this girl's 3 sizes.  Absolutely vital info needed to better understand the completely unrelated article about games these pics accompany.
    
    Hey...  It says she's from the very same prefecture I live in...🤔
     
    

    127 downloads

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    Submitted February 18

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    Famitsu Issue 1342 (September 4, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    I only read Famitsu for the hard-hitting gaming journalism.
    
    
    

    126 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted February 16

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    Famitsu Issue 1343 (September 11, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    Just another 276 pages of weekly content making Western mags look lazy.
    

    121 downloads

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    Submitted February 5

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    Famitsu Issue 1344 (September 18/25, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    This is one of those weird issues that was given two issue numbers (it's technically issues 1344 and 1345), and counting all pages individually, this issue weighs in at 316 pages (though the posters and comic spreads are left joined in the archive as they should be).  That's the equivalent of 4 issues of Game Players, only with just one issue of Game Players' worth of ads.  And since these double number issues are also allotted two weeks on newsstands as opposed to one, there were only 3 issues of Famitsu published in September 2014 for a total of 851 pages, though if we count the last issue from August as well (which was printed within 30 days of this issue) it's a total of 1,189 pages in a 30 day period.  Which is just a few more pages than the 76 that Game Players churned out every month.
    Why am I picking on Game Players?  I'm not.  I wish ALL mags I scanned were like Game Players.  Scanning 1,189 pages per month versus 76 pages per month...that's one month of Famitsu vs. 15.6 months of Game Players.  Imagine how many more issues I could scan if only they weren't SO. DAMN. LONG...😩
    

    105 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted January 27