This is a long shot. Recently I found retromags.com and have been enjoying looking at old magazines from my youth. There's lots of Japanese magazines out there no doubt full of early shots of games that we've never seen over here, one of the things I like searching old magazines for. But finding scans of any seems impossible. I recall on IRC back in 2002 finding a channel that has a server with scans of several things, so I know they exist out there somewhere. Probably long lost to time and not on anyone's drives anymore though :/ I'm curious if anyone knows of any possible scans of magazines such as Sega Magazine, Dengeki 64, Dengeki Playstation, Famitsu, and anything else old that probably isn't too well known over here. I've searched the Japanese net for a brief while and so far it seems the likely best bet, being sharing progams such as utatane or winny hashes etc, only has a lot of dvd rips from discs provided with Famitsu magazines of recent years. Nothing old and interesting like I want. Is my only option going to Japan and finding this stuff myself?
I apologize on bumping a super old thread cuz i don't wanna take a risk on making a new one bit anyways do any of you guys ever owned a Japanese Video Game Magazine thats shaped like a manga book with paintball gun ads and there was an article on Donkey Kong Land 3 Gameboy Color version which was released Only in Japan & a Biohazard/Resident Evil Survivour article as well?
There could be quite a few magazines that fit into that including T.V. Game, special mini-issues of either Dengeki PlayStation among other ones off the top of my head. Have you seen other issues, have you seen a publishing range of any other issues? I have a pile of different old Japanese magazines and some of the ones I can name off the top of my head are: Famitsu, Famitsu Taiwan, Famitsu PlayStation, FamitsuBros., Dengeki PlayStation, other Famitsu and Dengeki console variants, Dengeki special issues, HYPER PlayStation ReMix, The PlayStation and other console specific magazines, T.V. Game, Action Replay Magazine and so-on. That's not even counting specific company magazines/newsletters that were also sent out via mail order if you can find them. There's also multiple manga magazines that do actually include game sections, major ones would be any of the GanGan types pre and post Square-Enix merger for game articles as well. So... You kinda need to narrow it down a bit.
Thanks for the recommedations but, sadly i cannot seriously remember the name of that particular magazine since i did only owned it back in early 2000's as a kid but i'll check them out and see which ones were they oh and there was this ad for Sonic Pocket Adventure for the Neo Geo Pocket as well.
Ad layouts honestly put, don't exactly help. I've done layout and editing work on a couple of magazines in Australia before and ad usage typically goes a couple of ways - set payment for inclusion a particular number of times, set payment for inclusion for a particular time period as part of a larger campaign or to be put into an issue later after there has been an article or reference of sorts to remind people "Hey, you just read article on [X], go and buy [X]!" when you get further into the issue. Of course if there are new titles out, the same title can still be advertised until it's bumped off certain charts or if there's a new release of a new title in a particular franchise, then the older ads may also be brought out again for a set period of time in order to move the rest of the stock. If you remembered if it was a preview/early build article on Gun Survivor/Survivor, a walkthrough, full retail review then that would also help narrow it down too as with certain stages of development or the release of a game, most companies have NDAs for certain amounts of info being released to the public so if it could be found in another magazine, that would also help to narrow it down even more. Just as I've come across ads for things in Japanese magazines up to a year and a half after a particular title was released and sometimes the same amount of time BEFORE it was released in order to hype everyone up for it's release. Though a lot of the time, those ones are often included in particular ad lots that usually just have a set number amount of times they need to be used in a certain period of time too so. For instance, I can tell you what's in two old GFantasy issues, the release dates BUT I'm missing the cover pictures for a reference and haven't been able to find these TWO issues out of the entire 1998 issues (which I have a decent amount of but I'm missing the only two I've been trying to find! DX), so I may actually need to poke around used bookstores in Japan to see if I can have some luck in finding them as it seems that finding certain issues even with the correct info can be rather difficult.
Well i've obtained this magazine thing way around after Resident Evil Survivor came out so i automatically knew it was that game but as i said it was completely Japanese & everything so back then i couldn't tell and also the names you've suggested weren't the ones i was talking about sadly hopefully i can find it pretty soon
It just sounds like one of those Gameboy "daihyakka" (encyclopedia) books that were 1/2 game catalogue with releases by genre, and 1/2 new release previews/promotions. Those were sold as small manga-sized books. But since they're quite a dime a dozen, nobody will remember specific issues of them, I think.
^ That sounds exactly what i'm looking for! :-D do you have a picture of how they look please? Just to be certain & also were their chinese ones as well too? Thanks man!!
It is hard to find these items from regular websites as Japanese people are generally scared shitless from uploading or downloading from the net. The guys in the know use P2P so that would be your best bet I imagine.
It is hard to find these items from regular websites as Japanese people are generally scared shitless from uploading or downloading from the net. The guys in the know use P2P so that would be your best bet I imagine. However, if anyone has any scans of the old Dreamcast magazines I would love to hear from you.
Um, alright thanks! but which P2P sites has these scans? Do you have at least a photo of the front cover of the book if possible please?
Google is your friend: http://www.google.com/search?q=ゲームボ...ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Well not technically all the time in some cases but yeah perhaps, and so far neither of the books aren't it so far is it THAT Rare or something?! If i were to keep this today i've probably would've been a freaking millionaire by now! jezz "rant mode off"
Has anyone had any luck with finding any Japanese magazine scan sites? I'm looking for a magazine called 64 Dream/Nintendo Dream, to purchase or just to see scans of.
about my last post, if anyone that had visited Hong Kong before please do you guys know or read any video gaming daihyakka books that were catalogued back around late 90's or very early 2000's? If so please by any means scan them once you get the chance, Thanks!
So, how's the situation now? I'm under impression that only "gaijins" care about that because, well, japanese just have all those magazines hidden in their appartments or libraries or something I'm mostly interested in Saturn/PS1 era magazines, as i'm currently looking for possible print ads for Baroque (game by Sting, if you know).
This is great. I also hope that more Gamest and (EARLY!) Arcadia issues would be scanned in the future. I checked Famitsu a bit, and currently in my opinion Sega's Saturn and Dreamcast Japan magazines and PC Engine Fan (also hoping for more one day) have more interesting or "cool" layout and contents (well i cant read japanese but still i see what i see), while Famitsu (and Dengeki, maybe?) are more, how to say... "strict", "formal", "pedantic" THOUGH they covered some extras like non-game music or pop-idols on pages, i dunno. What about CD/DVDs, though. I really hope that those who contribute those japan magazine also at least keep those discs somewhere; their importance should not be ignored - those disc often contained different stuff from demos and early footages (some of which never made it to web?) to cool extras like photos, drawing, wallpapers etc.
