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Super Power Issue 018 (December 1995)

By PixelBoy

Super Power Issue 18 (December 1995)
Super Power 12/1995

78 downloads

0 comments

Updated March 4
PC Gamer UK Issue 074 (October 1999)

By MigJmz

PC Gamer UK Issue 74 (October 1999)
*2 pages half scanned

160 downloads

0 comments

Updated March 2
Famitsu Issue 1372 (April 2/9, 2015)

By kitsunebi

298 pgs
I'll be honest, I've never played any games made after 2008 or so. So I can't offer any anecdotes about anything in this mag, and there would be no point in trying to look up info on any of the games in it since most people visiting this site probably already know whatever I could turn up.
So I thought about talking about the Jpop group given a 4 page feature, Country Girls, but...sigh...I hate Jpop. Here's the single they were promoting this issue. Maybe you share my opinion or maybe you think this tune slaps 🤨:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1tj7Q1UxXY

So instead I'll talk about Yuusha Yoshihiko (The Hero Yoshihiko), a 3 season TV series from 2011-2016. It has nothing to do with this issue, but you may find it interesting, nonetheless. It's a parody of JRPGs, Dragon Quest in particular, and they even got approval from Square Enix to utilize a lot of Dragon Quest monsters and the like. Of course, the show proudly proclaims its "no budget" status, so the monsters are mostly paper mache and guys in leotards and masks (they rarely show up for more than cameo appearances, anyway).
I haven't finished watching the whole series, but so far the second season is not as good as the first. The whole thing is ostensibly terrible, of course, but it's silly enough to have made me LOL several times. Fair warning: it can be very politically incorrect sometimes.
The good news is, you can watch the entire thing subtitled in English on the Internet Archive HERE.
If anyone gives it a watch, I'd like to hear your take on it.

83 downloads

0 comments

Submitted March 1
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook Volume 05 Issue 05 (1998)

By dablais

Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook Volume 05 Issue 05 (1998)

172 downloads
- tips & tricks codebook
0 comments

Submitted February 28
Ultra Player Issue 32 (November/December 1995)

By Argus

Ultra Player Issue 32 (November/December 1995)

47 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 27
Famitsu Issue 1370 (March 19, 2015)

By kitsunebi

So here's a fun PS3/PS4 game. Take photos of girls in compromising positions - up skirts and down shirts. If the girls aren't posing in a way convenient for your photos? No problem - just do a slide or lay down on the ground and you'll have those panty shots in no time. OH NOES! HERE COMES THE PERVERT POLICE!! Run away to be a sexual predator another day! Wheee!!!
Did you all know that there's an actual law in Japan that makes it illegal to sell any camera (including those on mobile devices) that doesn't make a loud "click" shutter noise when a photo is taken? This noise cannot be disabled, and finding a workaround is illegal. That's because of shit like this game happening in real life. But I guess you aren't allowed to murder people in real life, either, and we've got thousands of games where that's the goal, so...yay, lets take photos of underage high school girls' panties without their consent. 🙄

58 downloads

0 comments

Updated February 26
Edge Issue 081 (February 2000)

By MigJmz

Edge Issue 81 (February 2000)

139 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 25
PC Games Vol. 03 No. 06 (June 1996)

By kitsunebi

*kitsunebi edition*
There was already a very good scan of this issue made available here, but this is my all new scan and edit. I think it offers some improvements, but encourage you to give it a look and decide for yourself.
Some differences include:
slightly whiter pages more complete scan of each page from edge to edge (the older scan was presumably debound with a guillotine cutter, while this was debound with a heat gun, ensuring the entire page could be scanned) more seamless joins of images that spread across facing pages inclusion of an alternate 3-page spread of the opening fold-out ad. This ad was designed so that, after opening the cover, you would see two facing pages. Next, you would unfold the left page, which would display two new pages that would then seamlessly become a single 3-page image along with the original right-side page. Thus, the right-side page would essentially be seen twice - facing the original left side page, and also as part of the three-page join once the left-side page was unfolded. Both versions are included here for the first time to simulate the intended effect of the original ad. (One of the advantages of using a CBR reader is that this will cause no problems regardless of whether you are using single or two-page viewing mode. If you are using a PDF reader (such as Sumatra) to read your CBR files...WHY?! Seriously, you're using the wrong type of program LOL. As such, the intended order of facing pages may not display correctly, but what did you expect - this isn't a PDF. 😜) inclusion of scans of subscription cards inclusion of scans of included demo CD sleeve and disc (and I've uploaded the ISO of said disc HERE.) Here are a couple of comparisons showing how two-page joins in this scan are more complete. You can see how the older version is missing information near the center of the join:

This is just a regular page to show the slight difference in overall page coloration:

179 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 23
Tips & Tricks Video-Game Codebook Volume 08 Issue 06 (2001)

By dablais

Tips & Tricks Video-Game Codebook Volume 08 Issue 06 (2001)

149 downloads
- tips & tricks codebook
0 comments

Submitted February 22
Edge Issue 056 (March 1998)

By MigJmz

Edge Issue 56 (March 1998)

161 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 21
Game Developer Issue 065 (April 2001)

By MigJmz

Game Developer Issue 65 (April 2001)

103 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 18
Game Informer Issue 261 (January 2015)

By bogusfrank

Game Informer Issue 261 (January 2015)

265 downloads

1 comment

Updated February 18
Famitsu Issue 1369 (March 12, 2015)

By kitsunebi

246 pgs.
Another edit finished, another magazine tossed into the recycling bin. And yet the pile of mags waiting to be scanned never gets any smaller. Indeed, just when you think you're making progress clearing out the mags cluttering your home by the box-load, you "accidentally" buy some more. In your head, you know what you're doing is abhorrently wrong, but just like this duck, your body has a mind of its own and your finger clicks the "buy it now" button before your brain has a chance to stop it. You hang your head in shame. This is the scanner's own private hell.

71 downloads

3 comments

Submitted February 17
Game Developer Issue 080 (July 2002)

By MigJmz

Game Developer Issue 80 (July 2002)

85 downloads

0 comments

Updated February 17
PC Gaming World Issue 34 (October 1999)

By dablais

PC Gaming World Issue 34 (October 1999)
Missing page 29 and 30.

139 downloads
- pc gaming world
0 comments

Updated February 15
Comptiq No.235 (December 2001)

By kitsunebi

I uploaded the included CD-ROM HERE

60 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 15
Famitsu Issue 1367 (February 26, 2015)

By kitsunebi

So it seems the editors of Famitsu thought that people would like to see Persona 5 on the cover. I mean, sure - on a NORMAL day, that might be the case. But how they decided to go with Persona 5 when they had this in the same issue, will forever be a mystery:

This is Tsuri Bit. Which means "fishing bit." Note the fishing rods? Wikipedia tells me that this jpop idol group formed out of a desire to sing, dance...and fish.
Their concept:
You can't even make this stuff up.
Based on views, this seems to be their biggest hit, from around the time this magazine came out (the song's title is "I'm going to dance, fish" presumably meaning "I'm going to dance and fish," or maybe "I'm going to dance, then fish" and not someone addressing a fish and telling it that they're going to dance. Though I suppose it could be that...)

80 downloads

1 comment

Updated February 14
Computer Gaming World Issue 122 (September 1994)

By MigJmz

Computer Gaming World Issue 122 (September 1994)
*missing pages*

155 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 14
Famitsu Issue 1365 (February 12, 2015)

By kitsunebi

I had a certain song playing through my head while flipping through this mag, looking for my random "about this file" comment. The version on Youtube is from an older version of the 5th grade elementary school English textbooks, and has been updated for the newer ones with new music and lyrics (same refrain and melody, though), but the newer version isn't on Youtube, so far as I know. But it's ironic? fitting? that the song (Yokoso! Welcome to Japan) was stuck in my head when I came across a page featuring this toy:

A twin-barrel battleship gun emplacement...that couldn't be more Japanese if it tried. I think foreigners who have never been to Japan watch some anime or some wacky Japanese commercials or whatever and think that Japan must be some zany place fully of quirky people doing quirky things like they saw once on a game show or in a video of an idol concert in Akihabara or something. But it's actually a really quiet, ordinary place.
Except for the cuteness. Everywhere you look, CUTE CUTE CUTE. The kawaii aesthetic is everywhere. Please observe exhibit A, a collection of roadside construction barriers.

So why not make cute anthropomorphic guns? If you absolutely positively HAD to be shot out of the sky, wouldn't you prefer it be by something adorable?

72 downloads

1 comment

Updated February 10
Edge Issue 032 (May 1996)

By MigJmz

Edge Issue 32 (May 1996)

166 downloads

0 comments

Updated February 9
PC Gaming World Issue 25 (Christmas-New Year 1999)

By dablais

PC Gaming World Issue 25 (Christmas-New Year 1999)

148 downloads
- pc gaming world
0 comments

Updated February 9
Games for Windows Issue 17 (April 2008)

By kitsunebi

This is the final issue of Games for Windows. It could also be considered the final issue of Computer Gaming World, since that's what it was before they (unwisely) changed the name. And I'd like to say it's the final issue needed to complete our collection of this title, but unfortunately we're still missing issue 5. Phillyman owns it. It's in a box he has in storage. Pester him if you want to see it scanned. Don't worry, there's nothing he likes more than a good pestering.
I for one am glad to be done editing issues of this title. I scanned 15 issues out of GfW's 17 issue run, and every single one of them had an obscene amount of elements spread across both pages, forcing me to edit them together as a single image to ensure perfect joins in two-page view before splitting them back apart for the CBR. This issue had 64 pages that had to be joined. And it's only a 100 page mag! I shake my fist at you, GfW art director, whoever you were...

146 downloads

2 comments

Submitted February 6
PC Gameplay Issue 16 (September 2001)

By dablais

PC Gameplay Issue 16 (September 2001)

150 downloads
- pc gameplay
1 comment

Submitted February 4
PC Gamer UK Issue 071 (July 1999)

By MigJmz

PC Gamer UK Issue 071 (July 1999)

162 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 4
Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 061 (August 1994)

By Sean697

Updated 1/12/16 to include missing and damaged pages, cropped pages, fixed blemishes.

1,715 downloads
- egm
- star wars
3 comments

Updated February 3