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Game Boy Official Magazine Issue 10 Booklet Free Mini Booklet with Issue 100 (January 2001) of Nintendo Official Magazine4 points -
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PSExtreme Issue 12 (November 1996)4 points -
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Computer Player Vol.2 Issue 09 (February 1996)2 points -
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*kitsunebi edition* This is the place where I usually wow you with comparison shots with the older scan available here, showing off some of the two page spreads. I can't do that this time, because...THERE AREN'T ANY! Nope, just single pages the whole way through. So this is what this download will get you: Higher resolution - this scan is 3200px high, while the other is 2200. Whiter pages This mag was debound with a heat gun in order to get an edge to edge scan, while the other was debound with a guillotine cutter, cropping part of every page. However, as I mentioned before, there are no two-page spreads, so the cropping on the other scan is barely noticeable since it was mostly just white space on the gutter side that was cropped away. So the improvements to this scan in this regard are of minimal importance. To anyone who previously downloaded my scan from OGM or the Internet Archive, this version has been remastered/improved and those sites will be updated with this version once I'm able to do so. Unlike some of the other scans I've done my own updated version of, there isn't anything flawed about the older scan available here. Which you prefer may be a matter of taste, but this new scan is still noticeably different enough that I feel it's justified offering it here for anyone interested. This scan is on the LEFT, the older scan is on the right. Oh, and WOW. While I was comparing my scan to the other just now, I noticed that one of the pages is completely different. Page 122 of my scan is again on the left, while page 122 of the older scan is on the right. Perhaps there were regional variants? Or maybe my copy of the mag was sold at Toys R Us stores? Who knows, but the fact that there's an unexplainable and confusing variant of a Game Player's magazine shouldn't be too surprising to anyone familiar with their first several years of publications. At any rate, now you know you need to download BOTH scans of this mag if you want your copy to be 100% complete BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!! page 122:1 point -
Kit it is so funny that you say this. My parents sound like your parents. Going to a toy store was already a slim chance, but travelling more than 10 minutes to one, no way, haha. But then in 1989 I convinced my brother to drive me there to buy Super Mario Bros. 2. After a year of owning a NES and only a few games (Mario, Zelda, Tyson, Ice Hockey, and Excitebike) my parents finally said it was ok to get a new game. So my mom gave him the one sole credit card they had. It was this huge deal. So we get there, and as I'm looking for SMB2, he's calling my mom from a payphone asking her if he can get a game, too. She says no, so he tries to convince me to buy Golf instead. GOLF. So I said no way no how. No Golf. Eventually...he bought both. At home he tells my mom "He made me buy both" and I got in trouble. Haha. Children's Palace was also called Child World in other areas of the US. Their logo was a panda bear. It was a cool store that it indeed looked like a castle inside of a warehouse. They must have had a gentleman's no-compete agreement with TRU because as soon as Children went bankrupt TRU came swooping in to our area.1 point
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Retromags Presents! PSExtreme Issue 12 (November 1996) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: dablais Edited By: dablais Uploaded By: dablais Donated By: dablais Follow us on...1 point
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yippie. Thanks for this.1 point
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Didn't even notice that Oops. screenshots fixed as well.1 point
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Never heard of Children's Palace, but we definitely had a KayBee Toys in the mall. I have no idea how far away the nearest TRU was, since my parents would have never taken me out of their way to a toy store, but there must have been one SOMEWHERE, since otherwise they were wasting their time buying advertising slots in all the cartoons I watched every day. I may not have ever seen a TRU until I was too old to get excited about it, but those commercials made their mark regardless, as even today I can recall their jingles. More bikes, more trains, more video games It's the biggest toy store there is I don't wanna grow up, 'cause baby if I did I wouldn't be a Toys R Us kid1 point
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Our Toys R Us was close to an hour away I think Children's Palace had a lockdown on our area. As soon as they folded here in about 1992-1993, Toys R Us immediately arrived here.1 point
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The problem is, I don't actually remember where I picked up this mag, but it seems incredibly unlikely that it was a Toys R Us, as I'm fairly certain I had no access to a Toys R Us where I lived at the time. Back then, to me, Toys R Us was just this magical place I saw sometimes on TV commercials for timed shopping spree contests (where you got to run through the store, putting as much stuff into your cart as you could for 5 minutes - oh, the dreams I had about winning THAT.) I'm not sure I actually saw a Toys R Us IRL until 1994 or so.1 point
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This also reminds me, I asked my sister to buy me the newest issue of GamePro. So she comes home and says Matt I'm not mad but these magazines are just too expensive. And I thought well yeah I guess to her, $3.95 is a lot to spend on something I'll read a few times and throw away. But then I see that she has the GamePro Guide To Street Fighter II Turbo haha. She happened to be at Blockbuster, saw the GamePro logo on something, and bought it. Blockbuster didn't have any issues of GamePro, just their strategy guides. It was like $12, which would be like $25 in 2024 money! That said I still have the guide 30 years later, so it was worth it.1 point
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You might be on to something. I never saw the earlier issues of GP at our news stands or magazine sections in department stores or grocery stores. But they were all over Toys R Us and Children's Palace. Our KayBee (KB) Toy Store carried EGM only for the first year, it was the only place you could really get EGM in 1989 at retail in our area.1 point
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Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him1 point -
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PSExtreme Issue 10 (September 1996)1 point -
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Flux Issue 4 Direct-Market Edition (April 1995)1 point -
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