Kombatologist

Very nice!

I guess these were called diskmags?

The file date is 1996, so not far off. The MK Temple/Hideout sounds familiar. I visited all kinds of MK sites back in the day, but I mainly frequented MK Online and TRMK. I don't know if you've heard of the Mortal Kombat Bible, but I'm the guy that created that. It still needs a lot of work. I'd like to finish it one of these days. Btw, is this the site you're talking about? https://blueflame.tripod.com/index.html

Does anybody remember an e-mag back in the late '90s called The Enigmag? I believe it was distributed on an AOL keyword, but I'm not entirely sure. It was in the form of a standalone executable that ran in DOS. I was rummaging through some of my old floppies and came across issue #2. It got me wondering if anyone else here remembers it and/or knows where to find the other issue(s). I don't think it lasted for very long. Maybe two or three issues at most. In any case, I thought it was a neat piece of gaming mag history. I've uploaded the executable here if anyone wants to check it out: https://www.mediafire.com/file/nyj0w56z0yqg7sr/enigmag2.zip/file Virus Total results for the weary: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cbb7bb654199db908f56a6e39b37f392431eba7db5454096f5bb59a47010fc73?nocache=1

The direct download link directs to issue 99.

I've had this book for close to 25 years myself. It's so massive, I never thought I'd see a scan of it. Kudos to you!

That looks hella sweet.

Sega really shot themselves in the dick with this one.

I received that Star Fox 64 VHS tape as well. I still have it.

Awesome. Looking forward to seeing this digitally preserved.

Indeed. You would think us fans would be all about preserving this stuff, but that's never really been the case. We tend to horde stuff for nostalgic/collectors purposes. Would any of the guides you plan on scanning include some of the MK guides by chance? That would be a much appreciated sacrifice.

I always purchased my mags from a local bookstore back in the day, so I'm quite certain it wasn't a subscriber supplement. If it is in fact from issue #50, I suppose it's just missing from the copy I purchased from eBay, which is a bummer. In my years of searching for a mint/near-mint replacement copy, one thing I've noticed about this issue that's kind of interesting is that newsstand copies appear to have at least two variations of the Jungle Strike sticker on the cover (green and yellow), while subscription copies appear to have no sticker at all aside from the address sticker that's usually torn off.

An eBay seller claims this GamePro supplement is from the September 1993 issue (the cover uses the same art). The thing is, I recently purchased a near-mint copy of said issue to replace the one I had originally bought (and didn't take very good care of) in 1993, and it doesn't include this poster. It does, however, include a Jungle Strike strategy poster, so I'm not sure why it would have two posters. And before you ask, the MK poster has a white back according to the seller. So that rules out the possibility that it's on the reverse side of the Jungle Strike poster. I recall having this poster on my wall way back when, but that's all I can remember. Any info would be appreciated.

I'm surprised a lot of the old MK strategy guides haven't been preserved yet.