StrykerOfEnyo

I have gone through MANY issues of GamePro and EGM, sorting out the ads, articles, and reviews that I wanted to keep. And I can confirm that in your average issue that is 200+ pages, I have set-aside 80-90 pages for ads (for both GamePro and EGM) that I would keep for myself, and there was easily 10+ pages of ads I didn't need. I don't know about 50%, but 40% or more is an easily achievable number from what I saw. Both of these would sometimes have three 2-page spreads of ads right next to each other.

The Japanese themselves don't really buy video game consoles that aren't made in Japan, I've heard it's just a cultural thing. It's no secret that Xbox consoles don't sell well in Japan, and I'm NOT talking about just that the sales are low, they are nearly non-existent when it comes to a world-wide scale. The number of Xbox consoles sold in Japan across ALL generations is only 2.3 million units. That includes the Series X/S. The weekly Famitsu issue in 2022 posted the numbers, and gamepur reported it. According to the report, the 360 accounts of 1.6 million of that figure. Japanese developers still do make and release retail games on Xbox, obviously, but they know there is very few Japanese players that will pick them up. Nice sales figures. Thanks for those.

Thank you both for bringing these to this website, @MigJmz and Delphinus48. This version of PLAY is one of my favorite UK magazines. Very professional looking and I liked the writing. Thanks for finding and scanning these for all of us to enjoy.

Page numbers are messed up in PDFlite 2.0. Is the Sumatra or YAC reader way better? I was looking for readers that recognized the comic book formats a long time back and PDFlite was one I found. It worked and was free, but so are these others you guys mentioned. I just like scrolling through pages with the mouse wheel.

Mean Machines is one of my favorites from the UK. Good to see them here, especially since many copies are low-quality that I've found. This one looks amazing, great job.

Yippie! More PSExtreme. Thanks @dablais.

I'm glad I live in a world where the Kitsunebi Edition exist. Great job.

I never realized how much you admired her. Karaoke night says it all.

There's a "Win A Date With the Real Lara Croft" (Nell McAndrew at the time). I hope @Areala saw this content, I believe Ms. Croft is a favorite for them, and there's a lot of coverage for Tomb Raider III. The magazine states, "There is one winner and the rest of you are screwed." PC Accelerator Issue 15 has several photos of Lara (now portrayed by Lara Weller). I wanted to mention them here, so Lara fans didn't need to look up that one too.

Thank you so much, @bogusfrank for all the OPM issues. I'm the guy that's been giving you a "thanks" on all the ones recently that I've downloaded over the years. (minus a break here and there when I get busy) Thanks for scanning and editing so many of these. I couldn't always pay for a subscription, so its nice to finally see what I was missing.

Thanks. I remember having this but I'm sure I misplaced it at some point. Its great seeing it again.

This IS the most appropriate time to release this. Well, maybe March could work as well.

Late 90s is also my favorite. The PS1 and Saturn and N64 all releasing games was a great time. So much coverage and so many games a year. Early PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast and GameCube is a close Second. So many advances in PC gaming at these times as well.

In the early days, they had handheld scanners you would hold a button or "activate," then you would drag the scanner across the page. They started off small, like only 5-6 inch wide, but I didn't know if they still made a version like that today. You had to drag it across the page at a steady speed or it would mess up, but supposedly the length is only limited by how much room you had on a table or floor. This would be early 1990s, but I remember my dad had one, and I tried using it. I agree with posters, in a reader it just shows up as another page, but slightly bigger. Unless they take the file apart, (which I do often) but the average person will never know. And 4x4 is just insane.

Never heard of this mag before. Since you took the time to mention the poster process, I will appreciate it more now. I always wondered if some members had to cut up the posters by sections to scan or try to use one of those older drag-and-scan ones to make a few long images, then combine those together. It looks great. The "surprise" got me. Never saw that either... not as a full-page.

Thanks for mentioning the cgwmuseum.org site to me a little while back. I've been busy, but I plan to take a few weeks and go through them all. I was fascinated with the magazines that actually went through the game crash back in 1983, and this one went through it and kept going. Much love for the work you do.

wow, I see what you mean by how bad the pages can get. Thank you for showing the before and after. It really gives the normal visitor an idea of JUST how much work you guys (and gal) put into these scans by restoring them to this degree.

Has it already been another three days? Must be time for more PLAY Magazine... er, "play Magazine?" Play Magazine? However we need to spell it. Thanks, I got a small collection to go through now. I got all the Game Informers downloaded, (don't worry, I'm doing my part... by seeding it for several days before I move it over) but I'll store those for now. PLAY and PSExtreme go in the "look through when time" pile. Glad to see both on the site. Good work.

Thanks for the hard work you put into these scans. I know you mentioned it before, but since these Japanese mags are big in size, and must take weeks of your time to finish. I just looked through your latest, Dengeki PlayStation Vol.109 and it was 200 pages. I would be surprised if most of the Japanese magazines on the Internet Archive came from you (aside from the illegal scans that some post anyway). Good work as always. There are a few interviews I need to go back and goggle translate for later. It's so nice to have access to this content. And I can confirm -- no coverage of ANY Tomb Raider game in the whole issue. Weird.