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  1. Retromags Presents! Famitsu Issue 1370 (March 19, 2015) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: kitsunebi    Edited By: kitsunebi    Uploaded By: kitsunebi    Follow us on...                         
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    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.
  3. *canceled - never released
  4. Somehow, a random story showed up in my phone's newsfeed where people were bitching about the state of gaming mag preservation. The example they used to illustrate their point (that much of the most important gaming history remains unpreserved) was the fact that Famitsu's review of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is not readily available as a scan. This review was famous for being the first game ever to receive a perfect score of 40 (10s from all four reviewers) since Famitsu's launch in 1986. Well, I happen to have that issue, and while I haven't gotten around to scanning it yet, I decided to do a quickie scan of that page on my flatbed so that anyone wanting to see this "important piece of history" can do so in 600dpi. Except...is it REALLY all that important? Famitsu uses the "review crew" system that EGM directly copied, with 4 reviewers giving their opinions in a tiny little box that only accommodates 3 or 4 sentences at most. So just like EGM, these are, by design, some of the least in-depth reviews that have ever been written. To be fair though, even 3 or 4 sentences are like a Russian novel compared to SOME of EGM's reviews. Ahem: Anyway, I ran the Zelda review through google translate for anyone too lazy to do it themselves, and reformatted it to be easier to see here (sorry, google translate outputs super low-res images): So there it is. Important? I mean, I guess the first perfect score from Famitsu's notoriously picky reviewers is historically significant, but we didn't need a scan to know that. Is there any important history contained in the actual reviews? Well...I guess it depends on your point of view. On the one hand, maybe all printed matter is historically important, regardless of the quality or significance of what is said. On the other hand, there are far more in-depth and informative reviews written by random people on Gamefaqs or Amazon reviews or personal blogs or wherever, but are people clamoring to preserve those as history? Food for thought. If anyone wants to download the original (untranslated) scan of this page in 600dpi, here you go: https://i.postimg.cc/D7vDY9xh/Scan-20250218.jpg
  5. I was going by the descriptive text on that forum saying it's for new scans that can be downloaded here. But I appreciate you moving it, regardless. Especially since it will probably be getting new comments for months/years to come, depending on how long it takes them to deliver on all of the promised rewards.
  6. Retromags Presents! Star Trek - The Official Monthly Magazine 011 (January 1996) Database Record Download Directly! Edited By: kitsunebi    Uploaded By: kitsunebi    Donated By: kitsunebi Follow us on...                         
  7. Version 1.0.0

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    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.
  8. I'm not criticizing anyone who has commented on this thread (though to @KenMasters,the buying/selling/trading forum is where want-to-buy posts go). But MAN, I sure wish @Phillyman hadn't stickied this thread to the new releases forum. 4 months later, and this damn thing is STILL bumping actual new release posts off of the front page every time someone replies to this thread. Can anyone please move it to a more appropriate forum so the new release forum can be for new releases?
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