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Thanks so much! Coca-Cola Kid was apparently released 5 August 1994, so I guess this issue was published a little while before then.

 

I don't suppose anyone has a copy of it? I didn't realise how difficult old issues of Weekly Famitsu were to track down!

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It's actually the most common gaming mag in Japan and there are thousands of issues being auctioned off at any given time on Yahoo auctions (right this minute, there are over 4,300 active auctions with the word Famitsu in the title).  The problem is that no one in Japan scans gaming mags (piracy isn't as much a thing here as it is elsewhere), so if you're looking for online scans, you have to make do with the few copies I and a couple of other non-Japanese scanners have made available.

I've got a bunch of issues, but I'm fairly certain I don't have the one you're looking for.

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You want to search item descriptions as well.  Not sure if buyee allows that, but actually using Yahoo auctions does.  Most of the extra auctions it brings up by searching this way aren't actual Famitsu issues, with the exception of this lot (which at $10 per mag is WAY overpriced in my opinion)

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r216926411

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Seems to be issue 295? Please confirm my deduction using the information below.

Here's the Famitsu page for Coca-Cola Kid: https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=16013

It shows an excerpt of the review which can be matched to the image in the twitter post.

Issue 298 was 1994-09-02 https://yomuka.wordpress.com/tag/weekly-famitsu/

So issue 295 would have been on 1994-08-12 http://sayonarafamitsu.blog.fc2.com/blog-date-199408.html

That is the week after Coca-Cola Kid was released.

https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZNON8053 (none in stock)

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  • 9 months later...

Hi again. I hope it's okay to reply to an older topic.

Unfortunately I still haven't had any luck identifying this issue. Knowing that it's prior to issue 295 is a great help, but with a weekly magazine it's still tricky to pinpoint!

I was wondering, what was the relationship between the regular WEEKLY Famicom Tsushin and the MONTHLY (Gekkan) Famicom Tsushin? Did the monthly editions reprint articles from the weekly editions, or was there original content? Did the monthly versions have more pages? Would Game Gear games be important enough for the monthly editions to cover?

Thanks everyone!

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The monthly Famicom Tsuushin was published from 1993-1995.  They were "strategy specials," printing strategy guides for games. As far as I know, it was not reprint material.  No idea if they would cover Game Gear.  Sega coverage in general was pretty limited, seeing as the mag itself focused on Nintendo until Nintendo's fading domination over the market post-16-bit era forced them to change their name and cover all systems equally beginning in 1996.  Remember, Sega was always last place in the console wars in Japan behind Nintendo and the PC Engine.  The Saturn was Sega's first real success in Japan.

Not sure how you're going to pinpoint that exact issue, other than buying a range of possible issues and hoping for the best.  Good luck!

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