Famitsu

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1. 

   Famitsu Issue 0231 (May 21, 1993)

   By MigJmz

   Famitsu Issue 0231 (May 21, 1993)
   

   277 downloads

   1 comment

   Submitted August 13, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0234 (June 11, 1993)

   By MigJmz

   Famitsu Issue 0234 (June 11, 1993)
   

   271 downloads

   0 comments

   Submitted July 18, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0258 (November 26, 1993)

   By MigJmz

   Famitsu Issue 0258 (November 26, 1993)
   

   442 downloads

   0 comments

   Submitted October 15, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0259 (December 3, 1993)

   By MigJmz

   Famitsu Issue 0259 (December 3, 1993)
   

   461 downloads

   0 comments

   Submitted August 14, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0455 (September 5 1997)

   By marktrade

   Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon
   

   1,127 downloads

   3 comments

   Updated July 29, 2018

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   Famitsu Issue 0555 (August 6 1999)

   By marktrade

   Nagase Reiko
   

   947 downloads

   1 comment

   Updated July 29, 2018

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   Famitsu Issue 0571 (November 26, 1999)

   By MigJmz

   Famitsu Issue 0571 (November 26, 1999)
   Would you like more Japanese scans like these? Consider contributing to JhonnyD's patreon.
   

   388 downloads

   0 comments

   Submitted June 8, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0666 (September 21, 2001)

   By bogusfrank

   Famitsu Issue 0666 (September 21, 2001)

   411 downloads

   2 comments

   Updated May 11, 2022

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   Famitsu Issue 0669 (October 12, 2001)

   By kitsunebi

   Scanned 6 months ago, I've finally gotten around to finishing the editing on this.  But what's an extra 6 months when you've been already been waiting since 2001 to get a copy of this issue? 😋  And remember, if you enjoy scans like this, be sure to click the "like" button .  It's such a small thing to do, but your scanners will greatly appreciate it, I assure you. (Just be sure do do it here at Retromags where we'll see it, not somewhere else like a new release post on facebook or twitter)
   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 you can download it for free. Magazine preservation is for everyone. Thank you!
   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、そこで「このファイルはRetromagsからで、そこ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！
   PS: Please don't upload this file to the Internet Archive.  K thnx bye!
   

   769 downloads

   2 comments

   Updated February 2, 2020

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    Famitsu Issue 0808 (June 11, 2004)

    By bogusfrank

    Famitsu Issue 0808 (June 2004)
    

    504 downloads

    0 comments

    Updated May 11, 2022

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    Famitsu Issue 0813 (July 16, 2004)

    By bogusfrank

    Famitsu Issue 0813 (July 2004)
    

    385 downloads

    1 comment

    Updated May 11, 2022

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    Famitsu Issue 1302 (November 28, 2013)

    By kitsunebi

    12 downloads

    0 comments

    Submitted 10 hours ago

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    Famitsu Issue 1303 (December 5, 2013) (supplement included)

    By kitsunebi

    54 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted April 30

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    Famitsu Issue 1304 (December 12, 2013)

    By kitsunebi

    54 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted April 25

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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.
    

    65 downloads

    3 comments

    Submitted April 22

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    Famitsu Issue 1306 (December 26, 2013)

    By kitsunebi

    53 downloads

    5 comments

    Submitted April 19

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    Famitsu Issue 1312 (February 6, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    61 downloads

    0 comments

    Updated May 9

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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...)
    

    63 downloads

    0 comments

    Updated May 9

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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....)
    

    73 downloads

    0 comments

    Updated May 9

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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.
    

    72 downloads

    0 comments

    Updated May 9

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    Famitsu Issue 1317 (March 13, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    There's a report on the PS4 release complete with lots of pictures of people waiting overnight in the cold and proudly holding their newly purchased goods like they're some sort of hero showing off the head of the beast they vanquished.  I've never bought anything at a midnight release event and never will, but if I DID, I think I'd rather not have my picture taken and printed in a magazine.  Who could you ever show it to?
    "Oh, you waited in a line for 24 hours to buy a video game system the moment it was released?  Wow, uh...cool story.  --NNERRRRRD!!!!!"
    

    89 downloads

    7 comments

    Submitted December 31, 2024

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    Famitsu Issue 1318 (March 20, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    This issue hit around the time of the PS4 launch, making the weekly sales chart look a little lopsided:
    
    That's the PS4 standing alone on top with 322,083 units sold, with the next best selling system being the 3DS with 30,284 units sold.  Congrats to the Xbox360, which managed to outsell the last-gen Wii with a whopping 239 units sold.  It's not often you see a Microsoft system anywhere but dead last in Japan, so thank goodness 148 people bought a 7 1/2-year-old Wii that week, giving the poor 360 a chance to have an edge over something.
    As an aside, I just flipped through an issue of the UK's GamesTM mag lately, and it had the results of a reader poll where the 360 was voted the best console OF ALL TIME.
    Cultural differences make the world interesting.
    

    90 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted November 30, 2024

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    Famitsu Issue 1319 (March 27, 2014) (supplement included)

    By kitsunebi

    This issue includes a Dark Souls II supplement book, which I've appended to the end of the archive.
    Ah, supplements...I've been guilty of it myself once or twice in the past, but releasing supplements separately from the magazines they belong to is a practice I'll no longer be a part of, unless of course, I have a supplement but for some reason DON'T have the mag it came from (as was the case with many of the supplements I scanned, which were thrown in as part of a donation years ago.)  I like to adhere to the primary definition of the word.
    supplement /sŭp′lə-mənt/ noun Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole. So please enjoy this magazine, complete with supplement. 🙂
    260pgs
    

    106 downloads

    0 comments

    Submitted November 25, 2024

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    Famitsu Issue 1320 (April 3, 2014)

    By kitsunebi

    The highest rated game this issue is a tie between girlfriend simulator Love Plus + and the latest Hatsune Miku game (she who is also known as The Vocaloid Who Married A Real Boy™), both of which got the exceptional Platinum scores of 10 9 9 9.  But don't worry, there are also a few romance games aimed at women in their teens and twenties which are well reviewed, so digital romancing is an equal opportunity endeavor.  And for the older gentleman who just doesn't give a $%^# about trying to please the opposite sex anymore, there's the latest game in the Winning Post horse racing sim series, which also nabbed a Platinum score and allows you to focus on romance of the equine variety, playing matchmaker in order to breed a champion money-maker.  Anyone looking for a game with guns 'n' 'splosions is reading the wrong mag - Famitsu only covers games released in Japan, and those types of game are few and far between.
     
    Confessions of love, Japanese style
    
    They're all proposing to the rich old man who breeds the champion race horses, of course.
    

    88 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted November 15, 2024

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    Famitsu Issue 1321 (April 10, 2014) (supplements included)

    By kitsunebi

    Complete with both supplements.  First being a Kantai Collection (KanKore) manga, and the second being a double-sided B3 poster for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd.  If you don't know who Hatsune Miku is, she's the vocaloid software/singer on the cover of this issue, star of many Sega video games, and the happily married for 6-years wife of this completely normal and well-adjusted Japanese man:
    
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/2508555/japanese-man-celebrates-six-years-with-cartoon-bride
    What is this place I live in...
    

    101 downloads

    6 comments

    Submitted November 12, 2024