Dengeki Playstation

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   Dengeki PlayStation 123 (November 12, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   It's a given that General Pepper would be the nastiest.
    
   

   72 downloads

   1 comment

   Submitted May 9

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   Dengeki PlayStation 120 (October 8, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   Before writing in this box, I always do a quick flip-through of the mag and comment on whatever happens to strike my fancy, so to speak.  This time, it was Bruce Willis.  Bruce's rugged bald pate from the ad for his PS1 masterpiece, Apocalypse, really stood out from the rest of the ads, not to mention the rest of the games featured in the mag.  It's just so...Western.  Not that Apocalypse is the ONLY Western game to appear in this issue, but the other one is Crash Racing, and that's just cute enough to almost pass as a Japanese game.  But Bruce can't be bothered with cuteness, he's too busy blowing $@^& up.  Yippee kay yay, mother trucker.
   

   131 downloads

   6 comments

   Updated May 9

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   Dengeki PlayStation 121 (October 22, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   80 downloads

   0 comments

   Submitted May 3

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   Dengeki PlayStation 118 (September 24, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   I thought long and hard trying to decide what I should say here, but I've opted instead to convey it via interpretive dance.  248 pgs
   
   

   115 downloads

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   Submitted December 20, 2024

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   Dengeki PlayStation 117 (September 10, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   Is there a more data-packed mag than Dengeki PlayStation?  Not that I've ever seen.  I'm not talking about typical magazine preview fluff, or data on how many polygons the game's engine can crunch, but rather just cold hard in-game data.  Just count the numbers of charts and graphs tracking the tiniest details that appear in DP's pages.  I wonder how much of this stuff got reused in strategy guides...
   

   116 downloads

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   Submitted December 15, 2024

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   Dengeki PlayStation 115 (August 13/27, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   Sometimes I struggle to have anything interesting to say here, and I think, maybe I should just type:
   Dengeki PlayStation Vol.115 (August 13/27, 1999)
   and leave it at that, just like anyone else would do.  But then I think, nah, I've gotta say SOMETHING, no matter how small or insignificant an observation it might be.  So today, I bring you a line dashed off in one of the Syphon Filter reviews which says something like "The exhilarating feeling of becoming a strong hero like 007...and defeating bad guys is truly American!"
   How ya like them apples, UK? 😜
   

   122 downloads

   3 comments

   Submitted December 13, 2024

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   Dengeki PlayStation 113 (July 23, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   This here's a magazine 'bout PlayStation games.  I reckon some of 'em you heard of, and some of 'em you ain't.  Either way you got near two hunnerd'n fifty pages full of purty pictures and lots of them squiggles they call writin' in Japan.  Get it while the gettin's good, y'all.
   

   114 downloads

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   Submitted October 31, 2024

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   Dengeki PlayStation 112 (July 9, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   According to Sony's ad, there are two types of games.  "Octopus games" are so addictive you get calluses on your fingers from playing so much.
   
   Then there are "eggplant games" which are silly but addictive.  Like eggplants.  Apparently.
   
    
   Well, I mean, that's what they SAY...
   Octopus shmoctopus...what I'm really seeing here is "a Japanese game with tentacles will give you calluses from playing with "it" too much." 
   And do we even need to address the symbolism of the eggplant???  😬 yyyyeeeaaahhhh....
   
    
    
   

   126 downloads

   6 comments

   Updated October 9, 2024

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   Dengeki PlayStation 110 (June 25, 1999)

   By kitsunebi

   I've scanned so many issues of Dengeki PlayStation with some Gundam game or other on the cover that I had to check to make sure I hadn't already uploaded this one.  But nope, this is 252 pages of not-uploaded-here-before material LOL.  I'm old enough to look through this mag and think "oh yeah, I own a lot of these games" without thinking of them as "retro."  Grandia and Incredible Crisis were two favorites reviewed this ish...
   

   127 downloads

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   Submitted September 26, 2024

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    Dengeki PlayStation 109 (June 11, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    244 pages
    

    138 downloads

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    Submitted September 7, 2024

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    Dengeki PlayStation 106 (May 7/21, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    Coincidentally, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was released during same time period as this mag's cover date.  Twenty-five years later, not a single person has ever gone on record accusing Dengeki PlayStation #106 of destroying their childhood, however.
    

    137 downloads

    4 comments

    Submitted September 2, 2024

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    Dengeki PlayStation 104 (April 23, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    There was apparently a SaGa Frontier 2 supplement which came with this issue, but my copy didn't include it.  It DID include the second supplement...a sticker sheet of memory card stickers.  Thank god for that LOL.  A scan of some memory card stickers is even less useful than actual memory card stickers, but it's preserved for prosperity now anyway.  Well, except for the few that the previous owner removed.  I guess someone out there uses memory card stickers, after all. 🙃
    

    129 downloads

    1 comment

    Submitted August 28, 2024

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    Dengeki PlayStation 103 (April 9, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    Japan doesn't bother releasing most Western games.  But when they do, it's interesting to see how they market them.  Case in point, Spyro the Dragon.  I like Spyro.  I find it a very relaxing game to play.  Just run around looking for hidden gems or whatever (forgive me, it's been 20 years since I played it) without too much danger or difficulty.  Which is appropriate, as it's essentially a kids' game.  So how does Japan market it?  As seen in this issue's ad, Spyro zooms by, blowing up Japanese school girls' skirts.  Because someone looked at the game and thought "what this childrens' game's ad campaign needs is a little bit of sex."  Of course, the Japanese release of Spyro was a mess since they mucked with the camera while trying to cater to the common (at that time) Japanese complaint that 3D cameras made people get motion sickness (I call bullshit, but whatever.  Japan eventually realized that 3D was here to stay, so this isn't a complaint heard anymore.)    So, the Japanese version probably deserved to fail as it did.  But you can also take a gander at the Japanese logo for Spyro if you want to see where the American developers got the idea to name Spyro 2's villain, since the stylized katakana for Spyro looks a lot like alphabet characters spelling "Ripto."
    

    178 downloads

    1 comment

    Submitted February 9, 2024

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    Dengeki PlayStation 101 (March 26, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    There's another 24 pages of FFVIII coverage here, but perhaps because FFVIII already graced the cover of the past two issues, they've given the cover to Chocobo Racing, despite it only getting 2 pages of coverage.  Also getting 2 pages (but no cover - sorry, you-know-who) is Tomb Raider III, pretty much the only non-Japanese game in the entire issue (Spyro the Dragon gets half a page.)
    

    192 downloads

    1 comment

    Updated January 28, 2024

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    Dengeki PlayStation 100 (March 12, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    Celebrate 100 issues of Dengeki PlayStation with 50 pages of Final Fantasy VIII coverage.  And not one, but two memory card sticker sheets.  Every time I run across one of these, there's always a sticker or two missing and I wonder what games they were for.  And did the person who took them actually put them on a memory card or just stick them somewhere else, like the back of a volkswagon?
    

    208 downloads

    1 comment

    Submitted January 25, 2024

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    Dengeki PlayStation 098 (February 26, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    212 pgs
    
    

    185 downloads

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    Submitted December 27, 2023

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    Dengeki PlayStation 097 (February 12, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    212 pgs
    
    

    176 downloads

    0 comments

    Submitted December 27, 2023

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    Dengeki PlayStation 095 (January 29, 1999)

    By kitsunebi

    Dengeki PlayStation Vol.095 (January 29, 1999)
    

    165 downloads

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    Submitted December 18, 2023

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    Dengeki Playstation 181 (July 13, 2001)

    By E-Day

    Dengeki Playstation Vol.181 (July 13, 2001)
    

    332 downloads

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    Submitted May 31, 2022

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    Dengeki Playstation 180 (June 22, 2001)

    By E-Day

    Dengeki Playstation Vol.180 (June 22, 2001)
    

    325 downloads

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    Submitted January 9, 2022

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    Dengeki Playstation 175 (April 27, 2001)

    By Crimsonfox

    Dengeki Playstation Issue 175 (April 27, 2001)
    

    478 downloads

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    Submitted October 24, 2020

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    Dengeki Playstation 162 (December 8, 2000)

    By Crimsonfox

    Dengeki Playstation Vol.162 (December 8, 2000)
    

    504 downloads

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    Submitted June 27, 2020

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    Dengeki PlayStation 293 (December 24, 2004)

    By kitsunebi

    10th Anniversary issue. 300 pages. Get it. "Like" it if you like it and want to see more scans in the future.  Don't if you don't (but then why did you download it in the first place?)
    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!
    

    490 downloads

    1 comment

    Updated December 14, 2019

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    Dengeki Playstation 094 (January 14, 1999)

    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!
    Well, I had intended on releasing these in the order I scanned them, but the first issue I scanned is on hold while the cut-off dates in the database wait to be fixed. So for now you get an issue from a couple years earlier - in this case the start of 1999 with the first of what promises to be many Gundam covers.
    
    As this is the first issue of D.P. to be put up, I'll say that my general impression is that in contrast to most English magazines, it devotes a large chunk of its coverage to in-depth strategy sections, as opposed to short previews of upcoming games (though of course it has those too.) There is an insane amount of information in these issues and were anyone inclined to actually read every word from cover to cover, it would probably take twice as long as an American mag of the same length.
    

    665 downloads

    2 comments

    Updated July 29, 2019

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    Dengeki PlayStation 165 (January 12, 2001)

    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!
    Although this is the second issue I'm uploading, it's actually the first one I scanned and edited. My reason for picking it first was twofold: first, it was the issue my hand closed on when I shut my eyes and picked one at random. Second, and more importantly, it was to be the first magazine I ever debound using a heat gun, and should I have accidentally lit the cover on fire and burnt it to ash while adjusting to the learning process, I could think of no greater candidate for immolation than a cover featuring Square's masterpiece of mediocrity, The Bouncer. Enjoy.
    

    620 downloads

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    Updated July 29, 2019