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Someone needs to post the early early strategy guides where nobody was allowed to use any official art and the cover for the Super Mario 64 guide was just a drawing of his eyes. And then there was that weird Ocarina of Time guide that was kinda a guide but also a novel? They did the same thing with a bunch of Pokemon games.

Maybe we'll find the elusive second issue of NGamer somewhere in that pile! You could fill a whole library with this donation alone.

This is just what I was looking for. Thanks!

It's even worse if it has that motion blur effect that makes everything look like a soap opera or a country music video. Glad my TV wasn't one of those where that was the default setting.

I found a British lottery ticket in an issue of Cube UK I bought once. Too bad I'm American so the only pounds I'm gaining are on my thighs

We should try to make some kind of thing here that lists all the pack-in stuff various magazines had for each issue. Nintendo Power was probably second only to GamePro in just how much crap they managed to shove into that plastic casing. They had that subscriber bonus issue (which was just a catalog), those Pokemon comics, the pull out posters that ruin the magazine when you take them out since there's part of an article on the back, rare Pokemon Eon Ticket, a whole bunch of catalogs (there was this blue one from 2003 I'd like to see someone archive) and the like. Does something like this seem feasible to anyone here? This does seem like the kind of stuff that tends to fall through the cracks. Especially those goddamn posters.

Seriously though what was up with that site and those letter grades? Did people really want to be reminded of GameNow? I really hope someone saved all the podcasts and stuff they used to upload there though, there was some pretty good stuff there.

My favorite part of EGM was how they weren't afraid to speak their mind when it came to reviewing. I remember how shocked I was that in the same issue that had State of Emergency on the cover they gave it middling-to-bad scores. And of course the time someone gave the first Assassin's Creed a 4.5 (which is what it deserves honestly). EGM the website? Gave a 9.5 to Aliens: Colonial Marines. Which happened to have a bunch of paid content on their site. If you're going to make the site any better, start with that shit.

I remember this one issue of GamePro I had from around 2002 that had this pack in book that was basically a catalog for a lot of ADV Films titles. Kinda weird since anime DVDs were more Play's territory, don't remember GamePro doing much in that department. It'd be nice if more publications had some sort of list of all the pack-in/subscriber bonuses that came with them. I guess if people send mint copies they could get everything but I get why that would be hard to part with.

Apparently NGamer might have become this at some point? Doesn't make sense for them to publish a magazine for all Nintendo stuff and one just for the GBC at the same time.

I already posted about this in the other thread but let's just make it official here. Published by Imagine, based in the US, appears to be a bimonthly/quarterly, did not last long. Completely separate from Pocket Games.

That's not my copy btw, just the only image of it I could find online. Too bad I couldn't resize it and find out what issue it was based on the bar code. I didn't find anything else when I used archive.org on Imagine's website at the time so it probably didn't last too long.

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Nice selection you've got there! I think I own this one issue of PSM where they outlined a hypothetical RPG that defied the cliches of the time and they had art of this one character who healed people by doing live surgery on them. Eeeyuck. I think it was around late 2002 since it had a bunch of stuff on the first SOCOM. Got it from my dentist's office of all places. Also looking forward to the NPs being complete because you guys are the only scanners of it anywhere who keep the posters (which have important stuff on the side of them, nice design choice people who made the magazine )!

Man I wish I could find some scans of the old Beckett Pokemon Collector magazines I had. The drawings they did for the G/S mons based on the original sprites were so bad, Magcargo looked like it was made of grapes

Does anybody remember when they started doing these? This was my favorite part of the magazine, and the worst part of reading these issues online is you can't really do them anymore Unless you print out the pages or something. I also have this weird memory of them doing an issue that was just the pencil puzzles but that might just be a fever dream I had.

I thought this one issue I had was Pocket Games but apparently it was something else. Does anybody know of any other US GB-focused publications that existed around 2000? Something like "Pocket Gamer" maybe? It definitely didn't last too long, might have been something Future published. I'd send it to you guys if I could dig it out of my basement.

I definitely had that issue of Pocket Games, I only really used it for the Crash Bandicoot GBA walkthrough in it. Keep doing God's work, these are some seriously great finds

No idea how my stuff got into your quote. The cover might actually not have been Xtreme Sports (which was one of the first WayForward games apparently) but actually Spider-Man, since there was a huge walkthrough on the GBC Spider-Man game in it. That's about all I remember about it. I wish I at least remembered the title. On a side note, I bought an issue of some UK publication once that was being sold at Barnes & Noble and found a British lottery ticket in it. I think it was Cube or something? There was this section where they commented on the top 10 best selling games and they just used it to go on a tangent about Arctic Thunder. I might be thinking of two things.

I thought it might be something like Pocket Gamer but that's a UK publication apparently? Either way I have the actual issue in my basement but the odds of me unpacking it before we move again are astronomically low.

I had this one magazine, probably the first video game magazine I ever owned, that was some sort of handheld game magazine (it may be the elusive issue 2 of Pocket Games but I'm not sure since I had issue 6 or so and they were nothing alike). The cover story was on some obscure GBC game called Xtreme Sportz (yes, really) and it had a ton of mostly badly translated information about Pokemon Gold & Silver that was occasionally flat out incorrect (saying Entei was a Fighting type). It gave some pretty scathing reviews to a couple of games too, the two terrible Austin Powers games and Star Wars Yoda Stories I think? Then they had a post-mortem on the Neo Geo Pocket Color with a drawing of Mario taking a piss on the system's grave. If only I could dig it out of my basement and the cramped binders I shoved so many of my game mags into...