1) There was a service that performed official, authorized and legal scans and sales of old DieHard GameFan Magazine issues, but it's dead, which is a shame.
2) If the image size has to be made even smaller to not break laws or something, I'll cut the image size down. All rights belong to their respective owners, if any of those rights even remain.
3) This is done to document historic events, reminiscing with others, food for thought as some of you weren't even alive twenty years ago.
I sold 99% of my old gaming magazines some years ago because it was a good idea, but kept a select few for the sake of old times, history. One is the very first issue of GameFan that I bought, which happens to cover CES Winter 1993, with E3 2013 approaching I thought I'd take you folks on a trip twenty years back in time, what me and my friends were ranting and raving and console-warfaring about.
Were you into gaming at the time? Do you remember these titles? Did you ever think gaming would evolve into what it is today? This issue brings up SNES-CD specs and had the SNES-kids (we were all 12-13 in school!) hyped up, nobody expected what was presented the year after, and me and my best friend at the time didn't care either, we were deep into Phantasy Star 4..
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GameFan was a freaking fine magzine for at least the five six years I was able to get it in Sweden, caught a scan of a year 2000 issue (thought it died 1998ish?) and it felt like something completely different and also bad.The print quality was like it was full colour, rather than typical four colour. Compared to EGM's next-to-toiletpaper quality these pages were basically solid, something you'd never rip on accident.
The text editor is very broken, the missing image was added with a caption as a reply to this post.
Did not know that Silpheed was FMV until way way late. Didn't even know of its obscure Japanese machine roots until last year. Would like to see what could be done today with the polygon on FMV style, if that at all would be necessary with Xbox One and PS4 coming.I don't remember anything from Final Fight CD besides all reviewers and players of it, game media in general loving it.Shinobi 3 is recommended. Not that difficult of a game, feels good, basically an 80's ninja flick of an action game with Japanese influences towards the end.I believe Jeff said it, and I will repeat it: We need a new Strider game. The last real new one I remember was something that began as a title on Capcom's PS1 based 3D arcade hardware (ZN1 family) that I could grab for $100ish last time I saw it.Third party shovelware wasn't that bad back in the day.Tuff E Nuff is pretty unique. Recommend a look, be it eBay or emulator.Final Fantasy 3, everybody.Riot Zone's a hella janky beat 'em up. Lords of Thunder is a hella awesome shoot 'em up. Cotton's just hella.A New StarFox game that's about shooting and a full console title would be appreciated.Also the Game Gear got undeserving amounts of crap back then and still does. It's a Master System! Shining Wonderful Force titles, Phantasy Star spinoffs (Japan only).
I'm unable to get the page with CD/Genesis back into the OP because the editor is hilariously broken so here:
Originally with a caption about playing Road Avenger at the store because that's where it made sense, as a rental or an arcadey title but not a $50 investment. Also that Final Fight CD was pretty great.
Fantastic stuff. I love reading archived sites, Usenet discussions or magazines from the earlier days of video gaming. Wish there was someone out there attempting to digitize a bunch of the old Swedish gaming and computer magazines we've had over the years. I know a couple of Amiga sites have scanned some of our more well known Amiga magazines, but I haven't seen anything covering the IBM PC or console focused magazines from the 80's, 90's or for that matter the early 00's.
Also, Silpheed was the best Sega CD game ever made. I'm always disappointed when the Sega CD comes up in bombcast or video discussions and that game isn't mentioned.
but I haven't seen anything covering the IBM PC or console focused magazines from the 80's, 90's or for that matter the early 00's.
And this is a damn shame, when it comes to 80's CVG. I believe some Swedish mags have been given the PDF treatment, DMZ was a beauty of a mag until the gaming-part of it took over, Sega Force was pretty much Giantbomb, and Interface became legend.
Got a TVSpelsBörsen paper from 1994. Oh, the old times :3
but I haven't seen anything covering the IBM PC or console focused magazines from the 80's, 90's or for that matter the early 00's.
And this is a damn shame, when it comes to 80's CVG. I believe some Swedish mags have been given the PDF treatment, DMZ was a beauty of a mag until the gaming-part of it took over, Sega Force was pretty much Giantbomb, and Interface became legend.
Got a TVSpelsBörsen paper from 1994. Oh, the old times :3
Heh, sadly I haven't got much myself, a bunch of PC Gamer issues from '98 to '07 or so, Ginzakatalogen from 1994, as well as the Messiah preview issue of K-Spel from 1998. Used to have a bunch more, mainly the American PC Magazine and Byte Magazine from the late 80's up to the mid 90's, but pretty much all of that was lost when my old house got flooded 13 or so years ago.
I was 13 at the time, enjoyed a lot of those games either in stores in my home town (most of them shut down now) or at friends houses. I wish id kept my old gaming magazines but by games collection eventually needed more room, miss the 90s lol.
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