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Issue #89: Pages 41 and 42 are missing, so we don't know what Game Informer thinks of Turok 3!

Issue #85: I think 12 pages are missing between page 20 and 33 - the contents page suggests there should be genuine stuff in there (i.e. it's not a missing pull-out).

You might want to check out the annual EGM Buyer's Guide standalone issues. The 1999 guide appears to be the first (possibly only -- I don't have later editions) to include Top 10 rankings per console (though not limited to 1998 releases). Earlier editions have per console game of the year awards as well as an overall game of the year award and some awards given out for the best title in specific genres, and some technical categories (e.g., best sound effects). They also reprint Review Crew scores for each console's library, but these tables don't list the game's release year or what issue it was reviewed in, so I don't find them very helpful. Gamefan's 1994 Buyer's Guide (Vol 2 issue 12) collected viewpoint scores for the best games of '94 in each genre on each console. Pretty nice format for seeing how the top games of that year stacked up against each other. They probably felt it was redundant to have an end-of-year buyer's guide and an awards special in the January issue as (AFAIK) we don't get the Buyer's Guide in subsequent years — just the MEGAWARDS which are more like the awards section in the EGM Buyer's Guides (just a category winner and maybe some honourable mentions). As Areala suggests, the console-specific mags (PSM, Sega Saturn Magazine) are probably the way to go for per-console Top 10 lists.

Issue #85 has pages 21 to 32 missing.

Issue #85 should definitely be marked as "re-scan needed". Not only for the missing pages but the cover is torn up. A better copy eventually would be good to have. As I'm going through these, I've also noticed a few dog-eared issues from 2001. November 2001 in particular (Issue #103) has very clear water damage on a bunch of the pages, another that definitely could use a "re-scan needed" tag.