Argus

Ultra Player Issue 32 (November/December 1995)

This magazine was a bit more of a restoration project than a typical scan. All pages had wrinkles I couldn't flatten out and had to touch up in Photoshop, but the worst offender was page 9, which had a lot of faded text (8 had it as well, but not near as bad). Normally I'd consider this a write off, but considering the rarity of the magazine I'm not sure when I'd find another copy, if ever (at least, I think it's rare. Haven't seen it mentioned or scanned anywhere else). So, I decided to take the time to replace the lettering bit by bit - not a hard job by any means, just incredibly tedious. As for the magazine itself, one thing that surprised me was how little overlap there is between issue 0 and issue 1. Some games aren't mentioned at all in issue 1, and those that are have their articles re-written (Space Station: Silicon Valley goes from a Beta Look to a full review between issues, for example). No clue if that's the norm or the exception for preview issues, but I thought it was interesting regardless.

It seems my copy of this magazine was mis-cropped during manufacture. A small part of the upper portion of pages 37-60 is cut off, and along the bottom you can see the printer's color blocks. Well, not in this scan specifically as I've cropped those out, but I'll show you an example here: (Perhaps not too coincidentally, these are the pages contained within the included PC Games subscription card.) Thankfully not too much is cut off from the top. All that's really missing is the running edge (the little box in the upper corner that tells you what section of the magazine you're in), with only a few screenshots being affected.

Pages 49-52 were taken up by the poster, which I've included at the end of the archive.