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Famitsu Issue 0142 (September 6, 1991)
By kitsunebi
Thought some of you might be interested in a 1991 Japanese take on the differences involved with marketing games in the USA.
Religious conservative culture requiring edits and changes to be released in America...yep, 34 years later and nothing has changed.
Also, it was kind of them to use the Mega Man from Mega Man 3 to illustrate their point about preferred art styles when they could have just as easily gone with Mega Man 1 to show how we Americans prefer our box art to look like ass.
Translated by Googly. Click each page to Zoom.
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Tech Gian Issue 034 (August 1999)
By kitsunebi
Adults Only
I've uploaded the included CD-ROM HERE.
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Tech Gian Issue 033 (July 1999)
By kitsunebi
Adults Only
I uploaded the included CD-ROM HERE
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Famitsu Issue 1305 (December 19, 2013)
By kitsunebi
This is almost a 300 page mag (296 pgs), but there's one big difference from a similarly-sized American mag:
Famitsu 1305: 296 pgs. 33 pages contain advertising EGM 88: 294 pgs. 147 pages contain advertising Famitsu: 11% ads
EGM: 50% ads
That's even more impressive when you consider that Famitsu produced this much non-advertising content on a weekly basis. And the Famitsu costs less than the EGM despite having (one would assume) significantly less ad revenue.
Not that I'm knocking ads. Ads are fun. Just pointing out a difference.
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Famitsu Issue 1314 (February 20, 2014) (supplement included)
By kitsunebi
220 pgs total: 188 pgs + 32 pg supplement
Included with this issue is a supplement covering the top 50 best-selling games each for the PS1, PS2, and PS3.
What's the best-selling game out of all 3 systems? Hint: it's not Final Fantasy VII (that one's not even in the top 5...)
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Famitsu Issue 1315 (February 27, 2014) (supplement included)
By kitsunebi
236 pgs including a 32 page "PlayStation Hardware Catalog" supplement featuring every variation of PlayStation console hardware ever produced in Japan prior to the PS4 (good lord, so many PSPs....)
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Famitsu Issue 1316 (March 6, 2014) (supplement included)
By kitsunebi
The mag itself is 262 pages, and there's a 44 page PS4 supplement included for a grand total of 306 pages.
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Famitsu Issue 1394 (September 3, 2015)
By kitsunebi
236 pgs
Supplement included
This is (I believe) the most recent of any mag I've ever owned. It goes without saying that I've never played any of the games within. For some people, this mag is 10 years old. For me, it's 20 years too new.
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Famitsu Issue 1392/1393 (August 20/27, 2015)
By kitsunebi
268 pgs
Fun fact: Although I scanned and edited this file in 2020 (couldn't upload it here due to the cutoff date), this was actually the very first magazine I ever (test) scanned with my first ADF scanner, way back in 2016.
Debinding mags is a step that deters MANY a potential scanner. People just have a hard time wrapping their brains around the concept that "to preserve you must destroy." I eased my way in by debinding THIS mag to break in my (then) brand new ADF scanner, since I had two copies of it, so destroying one still left me with one intact. I didn't scan the entire issue at the time, just the first 10 pages or so, and I later scanned the entire thing from scratch, which is what you'll get if you download this file. But this mag popped my debinding cherry.
Now, of course, I'll debind anything that moves without batting an eye LOL. And that extra copy I had of this issue? Yeah, once this scan was complete, I just tossed that extra mag into the recycling as well. Who needs it? Isn't that the whole point of making a scan?
What I'm saying is, becoming a scanner will change you.
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Famitsu Issue 1390 (August 6, 2015)
By kitsunebi
I don't know much about Minecraft other than that it seems to function as the Oregon Trail of the current generation of kids in Japan (i.e. it's the most entertaining game you're allowed to play at school - granted we only got to see if we could avoid getting dysentery back in the day on the rare occasions when we had a class in the computer lab, while kids today get to whip out their school-provided tablets and play Education Edition Minecraft whenever they've got a free minute between classes.)
But it must be a pretty decent game if kids are still playing it all these years later. This issue, from 2015, previews a Minecraft clone...but it's Dragon Quest themed. And yet here we are 10 years later, and the kids are still playing Minecraft, while Dragon Quest Builders is all but forgotten. If a Dragon Quest Minecraft clone can't compete with the original in Japan, you know it's got something.
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Famitsu Issue 1389 (July 30, 2015)
By kitsunebi
268 pgs
A rare case of a Western game making the cover of Famitsu. Minecraft, Witcher 3, and GTA V even crack the top 30 sales that week. That's 10 percent!! Western games on the rise?
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Famitsu Issue 1373 (April 9, 2015)
By kitsunebi
285 pgs
I've always wondered just what type of game Senran Kagura is. So I looked it up on Wikipedia, but after reading the entire description and not seeing the word "boobs" even once, I realized that the Wikipedia page must have been talking about some other game.
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Famitsu Issue 1372 (April 2/9, 2015)
By kitsunebi
298 pgs
I'll be honest, I've never played any games made after 2008 or so. So I can't offer any anecdotes about anything in this mag, and there would be no point in trying to look up info on any of the games in it since most people visiting this site probably already know whatever I could turn up.
So I thought about talking about the Jpop group given a 4 page feature, Country Girls, but...sigh...I hate Jpop. Here's the single they were promoting this issue. Maybe you share my opinion or maybe you think this tune slaps 🤨:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1tj7Q1UxXY
So instead I'll talk about Yuusha Yoshihiko (The Hero Yoshihiko), a 3 season TV series from 2011-2016. It has nothing to do with this issue, but you may find it interesting, nonetheless. It's a parody of JRPGs, Dragon Quest in particular, and they even got approval from Square Enix to utilize a lot of Dragon Quest monsters and the like. Of course, the show proudly proclaims its "no budget" status, so the monsters are mostly paper mache and guys in leotards and masks (they rarely show up for more than cameo appearances, anyway).
I haven't finished watching the whole series, but so far the second season is not as good as the first. The whole thing is ostensibly terrible, of course, but it's silly enough to have made me LOL several times. Fair warning: it can be very politically incorrect sometimes.
The good news is, you can watch the entire thing subtitled in English on the Internet Archive HERE.
If anyone gives it a watch, I'd like to hear your take on it.
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Famitsu Issue 1370 (March 19, 2015)
By kitsunebi
So here's a fun PS3/PS4 game. Take photos of girls in compromising positions - up skirts and down shirts. If the girls aren't posing in a way convenient for your photos? No problem - just do a slide or lay down on the ground and you'll have those panty shots in no time. OH NOES! HERE COMES THE PERVERT POLICE!! Run away to be a sexual predator another day! Wheee!!!
Did you all know that there's an actual law in Japan that makes it illegal to sell any camera (including those on mobile devices) that doesn't make a loud "click" shutter noise when a photo is taken? This noise cannot be disabled, and finding a workaround is illegal. That's because of shit like this game happening in real life. But I guess you aren't allowed to murder people in real life, either, and we've got thousands of games where that's the goal, so...yay, lets take photos of underage high school girls' panties without their consent. 🙄
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Famitsu Issue 1369 (March 12, 2015)
By kitsunebi
246 pgs.
Another edit finished, another magazine tossed into the recycling bin. And yet the pile of mags waiting to be scanned never gets any smaller. Indeed, just when you think you're making progress clearing out the mags cluttering your home by the box-load, you "accidentally" buy some more. In your head, you know what you're doing is abhorrently wrong, but just like this duck, your body has a mind of its own and your finger clicks the "buy it now" button before your brain has a chance to stop it. You hang your head in shame. This is the scanner's own private hell.
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Famitsu Issue 1367 (February 26, 2015)
By kitsunebi
So it seems the editors of Famitsu thought that people would like to see Persona 5 on the cover. I mean, sure - on a NORMAL day, that might be the case. But how they decided to go with Persona 5 when they had this in the same issue, will forever be a mystery:
This is Tsuri Bit. Which means "fishing bit." Note the fishing rods? Wikipedia tells me that this jpop idol group formed out of a desire to sing, dance...and fish.
Their concept:
You can't even make this stuff up.
Based on views, this seems to be their biggest hit, from around the time this magazine came out (the song's title is "I'm going to dance, fish" presumably meaning "I'm going to dance and fish," or maybe "I'm going to dance, then fish" and not someone addressing a fish and telling it that they're going to dance. Though I suppose it could be that...)
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Famitsu Issue 1365 (February 12, 2015)
By kitsunebi
I had a certain song playing through my head while flipping through this mag, looking for my random "about this file" comment. The version on Youtube is from an older version of the 5th grade elementary school English textbooks, and has been updated for the newer ones with new music and lyrics (same refrain and melody, though), but the newer version isn't on Youtube, so far as I know. But it's ironic? fitting? that the song (Yokoso! Welcome to Japan) was stuck in my head when I came across a page featuring this toy:
A twin-barrel battleship gun emplacement...that couldn't be more Japanese if it tried. I think foreigners who have never been to Japan watch some anime or some wacky Japanese commercials or whatever and think that Japan must be some zany place fully of quirky people doing quirky things like they saw once on a game show or in a video of an idol concert in Akihabara or something. But it's actually a really quiet, ordinary place.
Except for the cuteness. Everywhere you look, CUTE CUTE CUTE. The kawaii aesthetic is everywhere. Please observe exhibit A, a collection of roadside construction barriers.
So why not make cute anthropomorphic guns? If you absolutely positively HAD to be shot out of the sky, wouldn't you prefer it be by something adorable?
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Famitsu Issue 1364 (February 5, 2015)
By kitsunebi
276 pages. Includes a review catalogue reprinting all 123 cross-reviews (the 4-person review format which EGM copied from Famitsu) which appeared in the second half of 2014.
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