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P.S.X. Issue 09 (December 1996)

Edge Issue 46 (June 1997)

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

This is the original printing with a square-bound white cover. It appears to have been reprinted several times, each with differences to the cover and/or title. Variations include: red spiral-bound cover with the same "Nintendo Strategies" title. red squarebound cover under the title "Strategies for Nintendo Games" yellow spiral-bound cover under the title "Strategies for Nintendo Games" So far as I know, the contents of all 4 editions are identical.

*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:

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

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

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

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

Edge Issue 80 (January 2000)

Code Vault Issue 24 (October-November 2004)

Versus Books - Volume 45 Starfox Adventures - Official Perfect Guide Platform: GameCube

Sierra News Magazine Volume 4 Number 1

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.

Ultra Player Issue 32 (November/December 1995)

Edge Issue 81 (February 2000)

Super Mario Advance - Official Perfect Guide - Volume 26 Platform: Game Boy Advance

Game Developer Issue 65 (April 2001)

268 pgs A rare case of a Western game making the cover of Famitsu. Minecraft, Witcher 3, and GTA V even crack the top 30 sales that week. That's 10 percent!! Western games on the rise?

Edge Issue 56 (March 1998)

Game Developer Issue 80 (July 2002)

285 pgs I've always wondered just what type of game Senran Kagura is. So I looked it up on Wikipedia, but after reading the entire description and not seeing the word "boobs" even once, I realized that the Wikipedia page must have been talking about some other game.

I uploaded the included CD-ROM HERE

I don't know much about Minecraft other than that it seems to function as the Oregon Trail of the current generation of kids in Japan (i.e. it's the most entertaining game you're allowed to play at school - granted we only got to see if we could avoid getting dysentery back in the day on the rare occasions when we had a class in the computer lab, while kids today get to whip out their school-provided tablets and play Education Edition Minecraft whenever they've got a free minute between classes.) But it must be a pretty decent game if kids are still playing it all these years later. This issue, from 2015, previews a Minecraft clone...but it's Dragon Quest themed. And yet here we are 10 years later, and the kids are still playing Minecraft, while Dragon Quest Builders is all but forgotten. If a Dragon Quest Minecraft clone can't compete with the original in Japan, you know it's got something.

Mags debound and shipped across the sea by yours truly, and scanned by J of Oz. This title remains a total b!%ch and a half to edit. I can only get through about 10 pages per hour - it's a nightmare. Luckily for the world, the resulting edited files mean that no one will ever be forced to look at brown-haloed copies of these mags ever again. Digital preservation ftw.

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.

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.

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

Note: the CBZ version of Book of Life is over 3GB. If you are using the old version of CDisplay you will not be able to open the file. Use CDisplayEx or something newer. There are 4 download files: The Book of Life Index in CBZ and searchable PDF format The full Book of Life encyclopedia in CBZ and searchable PDF format. This file is 2,949 pages.

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...)

Game Informer Issue 261 (January 2015)

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

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...

Bully - BradyGames Signature Series Guide (2006) Covers: PS2

Final Fantasy III / Final Fantasy VI is, hands down, my favorite Final Fantasy title. And this right here just might be my favorite strategy guide of all time. Presented in full colour, flush with screenshots, along with copious artwork by artist Yoshitaka Amano, and a section at the end featuring some gorgeous full-size in-game maps, Olafson's guide is written more like a story as opposed to a walkthrough. At $12.95, this was an absolute showstopper of a book. It may be less complete overall than Nintendo's own game guide, as it doesn't contain things like monster stats, weapon and item lists, Gau's Rage tables, or other in-depth information one might expect to see in an RPG guide. But the sheer quality of Olafson's prose guides the reader through the story so well it feels like playing the game. It's one of the few guides I've read from cover to cover multiple times. It's just that good. This book is generally very expensive on the second-hand market. Copies on eBay routinely sell for $50 or more, and copies in excellent condition can fetch upwards of $100. For Final Fantasy III fans, it's a highly-sought collector's item. If you've ever looked at a listing and wondered why, I hope a flip through this book explains everything. If every guide followed Olafson's example, strategy guides would be regarded as works of art instead of simple cash grabs. Enjoy!

Updated scan uploaded September 20,2024

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

Intelligent Gamer Issue 5 (October 1996)

PC Gamer Issue 123 (May 2004)

Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 140 (March 2001)

The follow-up to 1,001 Secret Codes, released a year earlier. This book doesn't present any walkthroughs, guides, or strategies, it's simply a compilation of cheat codes, passwords, unlockables, and other goodies to help you get the most out of games you already own. That said, they still manage to misspell the occasional game title, so that mid-90's Brady "quality assurance" is still alive and well. Oh well. At least it wasn't on the front cover this time. Donated by ModernZorker. Enjoy!

Tips & Tricks Issue 123 (May 2005)

Tips & Tricks Issue 125 (July 2005)

Tips & Tricks Issue 121 (March 2005)