EGM Sendai Supplements (scans inside!)

[TheRedEye]

I've been attempting to catalog all of the EGM editorial supplement booklets up until around March 1995, when they switched to single page fighting game move inserts (and immediately after, mini strategy guides). I felt that these supplements, especially the CES previews, were actually extensions of the issues they were bundled with, so to me it feels like the scans are missing content without them.

These are editorial supplements, I did not attempt to include supplements that were pure advertising or otherwise provided by external sources. I also did not include posters. These are the supplements that are magazine-sized, say "editorial supplement" on the cover, and were produced by EGM staff.

There are 18 total if you count the Cinescape preview issue, I've uploaded uncorrected 600dpi JPGs here, in folders marked with which issues they go with. If anyone would like to edit these and put them on Retromags, feel free:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/5qgaxjc89sms465ek7f9a/AHoHueRMYILZviFr7-4XnGw?rlkey=kk3plt15m17kn1ch0w071t1dm&dl=0

I determined this through a combination of sealed issues that we own, live auctions on eBay, and archived auctions on WorthPoint. At this point I am confident that this is all of them. The only one I cannot substantiate its mate for is "EGM's Video Game Accessory Guide," it's somewhere around issue 40 but I have not found any evidence of where it belongs.

I also included a stack of subscriber-only pages, though I have not tracked whether this is the complete set, nor did I attempt to figure out which issues they go with...a project for another day, maybe?

There are also seven editorial inserts for EGM2, and several for Electronic Games and Computer Game Review, which maybe we can collectively track, but they're much rarer than EGM's...

[kitsunebi]

I agree that supplements are part of the magazine, and a scan that doesn't include them is technically incomplete. 

Sometimes someone only has the supplement and not the mag it came from, and in that case it makes sense that the supplement would be provided alone without the accompanying mag, but I think in most cases, people around here just release the supplements separately because they see it as a quick and easy scan they can toss up with minimal effort and add one more notch on their belt of releases.  I've been guilty of this myself a couple of times in the past, but more recently I've started including supplements with their parent mags whenever possible and will continue to do so going forward..

A scan of a supplemental booklet shouldn't be treated any differently from scans of any other supplemental materials like posters or trading cards - they should be included with the scan of the mag just as they were included with the printed mag, not given their own separate release.

Edited May 17, 2024 by kitsunebi