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Famitsu Issue 0571 (November 26, 1999)
By MigJmz
Famitsu Issue 0571 (November 26, 1999)
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Dengeki Playstation Vol.181 (July 13, 2001)
By E-Day
Dengeki Playstation Vol.181 (July 13, 2001)
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Famitsu Issue 0157 (December 20, 1991)
By MigJmz
Famitsu Issue 0157 (December 20, 1991)
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Famitsu Issue 0001 (June 20, 1986)
By kitsunebi
このスキャンは皆のために作ったので、ぜひダウンロードして、友達に伝いて、楽しんでください!もしほかのところでこのスキャンを分け合ったら、「このファイルはRetromagsからで、そこで誰でもでタダでダウンロードすることできる」と伝いて下さい。雑誌電子化は皆のために。よろしくお願いします! *
*This scan was made for everyone, so please download it, share it with your friends and enjoy! If you share this scan elsewhere, please say that the file is from Retromags, where anyone can download it for free. Magazine preservation is for everyone. Thank you!
OK, here it is, the first issue of Famitsu – a landmark issue if ever there was one. Please be aware however, that this IS NOT a scan of the original magazine (which is super-rare and costs hundreds of dollars) but rather is a scan of a reproduction. The gray borders around each page are new to the reproduction, allowing them to occasionally print some commentary on the contents of the page. Otherwise, the content of the magazine, including the ads, is identical to the original.
However, the reproduction is printed at about half the physical dimensions of the original. As such, the quality of small detail suffers somewhat – a fault of the magazine’s printing, not of the scan. The copy I had also suffered from some water damage, which is visible in a few places. Even so, unless someone is willing to scan a copy of the original #1 (I won’t hold my breath), this is probably the best we’ll get, and I feel it’s an important look at the origins of the most influential video game magazine ever published.
Finally…the cover. This is where most of the damage was evident. Warped by water damage and extremely faded, the cover was in such bad shape that I opted to repaint it (something I would normally never do with a scan). It wasn’t possible to repaint all of the tiny spaces between the Japanese characters, so the text is a little muddy, but on a whole I feel the cover is much more presentable than the unadulterated scan. For anyone who finds such digital manipulation an abomination (moreso than spot clone-stamping here and there, that is), I have included the original scan of the cover as the final page before the Retromags splash page.
Anyway, this issue is a special exception. I hope you can look past its faults to appreciate the history! Expect all future Famitsu issues from me to be similar in quality to the previous two I released.
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Dengeki Dreamcast Vol.01 (December 11, 1998)
By MigJmz
Dengeki Dreamcast Vol.01 (December 11, 1998)
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Famitsu PS2 Issue 0102 (May 11, 2001)
By bogusfrank
Famitsu PS2 Issue 0102 (May 11, 2001)
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Famitsu Issue 0666 (September 21, 2001)
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Famitsu Issue 0666 (September 21, 2001)102 downloads
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Famitsu PS2 Issue 0121 (April 12, 2002)
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Famitsu PS2 Issue 0121 (April 12, 2002)
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Famitsu Issue 0155 (December 6, 1991)
By MigJmz
Famitsu Issue 0155 (December 6, 1991)
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Neo•Geo Freak Issue 063 (August 2000)
By MigJmz
Neo•Geo Freak Issue 063 (August 2000)
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Neo•Geo Freak Issue 01 (May 1995)
By MigJmz
Neo•Geo Freak Issue 01 (May 1995)
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Neo•Geo Freak Issue 020 (January 1997)
By MigJmz
Neo•Geo Freak Issue 020 (January 1997)
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Gamest Issue 009 (June 1987)
By MigJmz
Gamest Issue 009 (June 1987)
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Arcadia Issue 002 (July 2000)
By MigJmz
Arcadia Issue 002 (July 2000)
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Dengeki Playstation Vol.180 (June 22, 2001)
By E-Day
Dengeki Playstation Vol.180 (June 22, 2001)
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Gamest Issue 076 (September 1992)
By MigJmz
Gamest Issue 076 (September 1992)
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Monthly Nintendo Power Vol.0 (January 1998)
By MigJmz
Monthly Nintendo Power Vol.0 (January 1998)
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