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Retromags Presents! Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 64 November 1994 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning the issue (and to me for editing it)!

Retromags Presents! Antic Issue 22 August 1984 Database Entry! Download Directly! Antic Issue 23 September 1984 Database Entry! Download Directly! Antic Issue 30 April 1985 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning these issues (and to me for editing them)!

Retromags Presents! Dengeki PlayStation Issue 71 April 10, 1998 Database Entry Download Here!

Retromags Presents! Gamepro Issue 152 March 2002 Database Entry! Download Directly! Scanned by Phillyman. Edited by Melki

Retromags Presents! Gamepro Issue 184 November 2004 Database Entry! Download Directly! Scanned by Phillyman. Edited by Melki

Retromags Presents! Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 138 January 2001 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning the issue (and to me for editing it)!

Man I am not even sure I should show you the next pile after these mags get scanned......ah what the hell....lets see if you can figure out what they are

Well, er...aside from that issue of Computer Gaming World, I'm not sure the rest actually qualify as PC gaming mags, but hey, even one CGW is half as many as we've got so far.

The following magazines were prepped over the weekend for scanning. It will probably take me 4-5 weeks to scan thru all of these. You may see issues beyond our cutoff date, these will be released in the future.

$50 to ship 180kg? Hell no, that's super cheap. In America, that would cost hundreds of dollars (using the postal service, at any rate). Not sure about a freight shipping service, but I can guarantee that freight shipping in the US won't deliver it in 1-2 days like pretty much every shipping service in Japan. Of course, if you were trying to have a package of this size delivered outside of Japan, I shudder to think what it would cost. BTW, the Famitsu bid hasn't changed since yesterday, but as I predicted, the Gamest auction is on the move and is now at around $470 with 4 days left to go.

LOL. Just saw this in a recent issue of Famitsu. It's a table of contents for their coverage of several games in the Senran Kagura franchise based on the characters' breasts. Because why pretend anyone cares about anything else, I guess? There is a bad pun at the top: "乳ゲーム特集” is pronounced "nyuuu game (new game) tokushuu (special report)", but the character 乳 (nyuu) can also be pronounced "chichi" which means "breasts", making it the "Senran Kagura Breast Games Special Report" Oh Japan, you and your puns. And flagrant perviness.

Thank you for scanning the November 1994 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. I enjoyed the issue as much as the October 1994 issue.

You had me at "bewbs". <3 *huggles* Areala

First subscription issue (#8) Last issue I actually read (#34) Last issue I received (#59) Upon receiving my first issue (#8, 1989), I immediately went about ordering the previous 7 back issues. For a time, NP was magical, and every issue that arrived in the mailbox was memorable and I devoured them cover to cover. As time passed, I became less and less interested. The early days of the SNES resparked my enthusiasm, but the difference between the 11 year old that got his first issue and the 14 year old that stopped reading NP was pretty huge. Plus, by 1992 (the year of issue #34 - the last issue I remember actually reading), PCs had entered the SVGA and soundcard era, so not only were the games themselves more complex and interesting to an older gamer like myself, but the technology had finally caught up to the point where home consoles no longer had the advantage. My game mag reading switched to Game Player's PC titles, and later when it premiered, PC Gamer. Yet for some reason I continued to subscribe to NP for some time afterwards, with the most recent cover I remember being the #59 from early 1994. Dunno why I subscribed for nearly 2 years without even reading the mag. Habit? Or maybe I was enticed by some sort of subscription/renewal giveaway (in addition to Dragon Warrior, I seem to recall getting some free strategy guides for renewing my subscription)?

Love this issue, finally it comes home to Retromags

Biweekly (or in the case of Famitsu, weekly) mags are one of the reasons periods are better than dashes. Jan/Feb 1988 = (1988.01-02) The dash takes on a meaning of January through February) Jan. 2, 1988 = (1988.01.02)

I feel like I've hit the wall, both creatively and when it comes to gaming. I've so far ignored this current generation of games, as none of the "next gen" systems on offer feel like they have anything to offer me, and yet this creates a conundrum for me. I honestly cannot remember the last time a game absolutely blew me away, and yet looking back through the past, through my own memories, I can see dozens upon dozens of instances. Some of them were gaming "firsts", such as the first time I saw 'Super Mario Bros.' in action and realized games could be larger than one static screen like the arcades offered, my first encounter with 'Resident Evil' where I learned the potential games had to terrify, or the first time I wandered through a fully-realized 3D city environment in 'Grand Theft Auto III' where you could just drive around and explore without being tied to missions or even time limits. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I realize it's those "firsts" that have given meaning to gaming to me ever since I was little. Playing 'Dragon Warrior' on the NES, my first real RPG experience. Watching Sonic burn through stages at warp speed on the Genesis. Two-player racing battles in 'Super Mario Kart' and 'F-Zero'. Taking my first steps in the City of Vilcabamba level in Lara Croft's shoes within the 'Tomb Raider' demo. 'Tomb Raider' was twenty-one years ago, the summer of 1996, and while there have been other games like it, nothing has matched that feeling of immersion, of danger, of solitude and exploration. Twenty-one years. I was nineteen. 'Silent Hill 2' turns sixteen this September. I've never played another game that was so good I wanted to keep playing, but took me to places so awful to contemplate that I had to put it down just to process what I'd witnessed. I was twenty-four when Jess gave me the game for my birthday that October. Others have come close, but none have matched the horror of James Sunderland's journey through hell, searching for his wife Mary. I could go on like this, but it just makes me depressed. I have close to fifty games in my PS3 library, and not one I can name has left me with the feeling that I've experienced something life-changing. Have I had fun? Absolutely! I loved the 'Tomb Raider' reboot of 2013. 'Bionic Commando: Rearmed' is a fantastic port/update of the NES classic. 'Just Cause 2' is awesomely explosive open-world entertainment, and 'Saints Row 2' and its two sequels have picked up the mantle 'Grand Theft Auto' ditched when they opted for gritty and obnoxious realism over the comedic joy and silliness that comes from playing a video game. Nathan Drake's antics in 'Uncharted' are entertaining, but is Naughty Dog doing anything different from what Core Design did years ago and Indiana Jones did a decade before that? Even the lone game in my PS3 library I could name that gave me that kind of 'first' experience is nothing more than an HD port of two PS2 games. 'Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga' was ground-breaking in its mixture of fun and simplicity, but again, I'd played it already a few years earlier when it was 'Lego Star Wars' and 'Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy'. Then I think: 'Dead Space'. 'Dead Space' came closest. It did a lot of things right. But just like the 'Alien' films, 'Dead Space' became a victim of its own success. If the first game was a claustrophobic journey through the unknown, the second was the big action set piece where the protagonist went from ordinary survivor to badass hero, and by the third it was clear the people behind the series had lost all touch with what made it great in the first place. So, for the sake of argument, I'll say 'Dead Space' fits the mold, the requirements, for what I've been seeking. 'Dead Space' came out in 2008. That was damn near a decade ago...what the hell happened to it (and to me)? Scanning the shelves, my gaze settles on 'Heavy Rain'. 'Heavy Rain' was bloody magnificent, I don't care what the haters say, but 'Heavy Rain' came out in 2010. Seven years later, what is there to match it? What is there to look forward to when it seems so many game companies are playing it safe? Can the field evolve further? I don't mean in terms of technological gimmicks like motion controls, touch screens, and VR headsets. I mean in terms of 'firsts', and meaningful firsts at that. 'Parasite Eve' blew me away in 1998 with its cinematic storytelling and exploration of a New York City at the turn of the millennium under siege from a sentient biological threat. Its sequel ditched the RPG elements, opting for a more straight-up survival horror presentation, and its most recent incarnation for the PSP, 'The Third Birthday', abandoned the Parasite Eve name all together in favor of a pseudo-sequel starring an Aya Brea who feels nothing like the original, who sight-jacks her way through a tired third-person action shooter. Where is the sense in this? Though I never played sports, save for a stint in cross-country and track in high school where I was average at best, I feel at this point in my life like a has-been, looking back on her youth, vainly trying to hold on to memories of her glory days on the presumption that things will never change, in denial of the fact that not only will things change, but that they already have. Maybe I'm asking for something I can never have. People could point to the eruption of building sandbox games like 'Minecraft', but I've played 'Minecraft' and found it too complicated and too time-consuming for my tastes. I can watch other people play it on YouTube and enjoy myself vicariously through their creations and interactions with the world and other players, but I feel like I've aged out of the demographic who can pick up and play it or its ilk. So here I am, stuck between two worlds, aged out of one and left pining for another. The truth is, for me, there likely will never be another 'Tomb Raider' moment, another 'Resident Evil' moment, another 'Parasite Eve' moment, another 'Silent Hill 2' moment. Video games are no longer made for people my age. Controls are too complex, single-player is often an afterthought, and so much that we see walks the line of utter safety. Another 'Call of Duty', another 'Halo', another 'Medal of Honor', another clone, another me-too, another waste of my time. Whether I outgrew gaming or it outgrew me, I don't know. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. I have my memories, I have my flashes of inspiration, and I have the thankfulness that I was there to experience it all. I literally grew up with video games. But like so many of the friends I made as I grew up, life happened, people moved on, and so have I. Just as it would feel awkward to sit down with an old friend I haven't seen in fifteen years, it feels awkward trying to re-kindle my relationship with video games. I want to be the same girl I was twenty years ago, reading through the magazines, eagerly watching the commercials, lapping up coverage of everything interesting me, visiting the rental stores to try new titles, cracking open new demo discs, and immersing myself in that world. I want to be. But I can't. Whatever that was, whatever I had, I've lost it. It's left me, hopefully to take up root in someone else's imagination. I hope it's found another girl who watches trailers on YouTube and finds inspiration, who doesn't have room in her house for massive Lego builds but has plenty of RAM on her computer to play 'Minecraft', who grew up reading "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" and now picks up the PS4 controller to play through 'Outlast' or 'Resident Evil VII'. I hope she finds what I lost, nurtures it, makes it a part of who she is, and goes on to draw inspiration from it. Because I think it's done with me. And I don't see it coming back.

Retromags Presents! Ride the Ocean Wave! (Game Players Nintendo Guide Supplement,1992) Database Entry Download Here!

Retromags Presents! NGamer Issue 1 December/January 2000 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning the issue (and to me for editing it)!

And before he wonders if no one was paying attention , thanks to KiwiArcader for his lovely scan of this issue, made available last year at OldGameMags.

Retromags Presents! Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 168 July 2003 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning the issue (and to me for editing it)!

Retromags Presents! Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 73 August 1995 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning the issue (and to me for editing it)!

Third volume of Rusel DeMaria and Zach Meston's guide to humiliating the newest crop of games the Genesis has to offer. Games covered: Alisia Dragoon Desert Strike D&D: Warriors of the Eternal Sun Earnest Evans Golden Axe II Immortal, The Joe Montana SportsTalk Football II John Madden Football '92 Jordan vs. Bird Kid Chameleon Marble Madness Pit-Fighter RBI Baseball 3 Road Rash The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe Splatterhouse 2 Steel Empire Todd's Adventures in Slime World Toki: Going Ape Spit Two Crude Dudes Wanderers From Ys III Also includes a final "Short Tips" chapter for quick hints, tips and codes for games not covered in the book. Cost is $9.99 US, $13.50 CAN

Previews E3: Crónica de un viaje extraordinario Hardware Especial E3 Nota de Tapa Copa del Mundo: Francia 98 Reviews Army Men Forsaken Unreal Flesh Feast Red Line Racer Alien Earth F1 Racing Simulation F-15 Soluciones Lands of Lore 2: Guardians of Destiny

Previews Extreme Warfare Command & Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun SimCity 3000 Spec Ops: US Army Descent Freespace: The Great War Nota de Tapa Forsaken Reviews Starcraft The Deeper Dungeons Deadlock II: The Shrine Wars Excalibur 2555 AD Battlezone Tenka Twisted Metal 2 Frogger Interstate '76 Arsenal Street Fighter Zero The Puzzle Collection F22: ADF Multimedia El mundo de Sofía Mensa: Prueba tu mente y ejercita tu inteligencia Hardware Informe Especial: Voodoo 2 La Zona 3D Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Noticas de último momento: Blood 2, Half Life se demora Lo Que Viene Más allá del joystick Emuladores Super Nintendo Soluciones Balls of Steel

Previews Age of Empires 2 King's Quest: Mask of Eternity M1 Tank Platoon 2 Army Men Dark Omen Ultima IX: Ascension Nota de Tapa Messiah Reviews Netstorm Balls of Steel Sega Touring Car Championship Mysteries of the Sith Ignition Last Bronx Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time Zork: Grand Inquisitor Galapagos F/A-18 Korea PCFútbol 6.0 Multimedia Encarta '98 Tommy & Oscar: El Fantasma del Teatro Hardware Todas las respuestas a las preguntas sobre placas 3D La Zona 3D Bots para el Quake y Quake 2 Lo Que Viene Más Allá del 3D que se ve 2D Emuladores Sony Playstation Soluciones Hollywood Monsters Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror

Previews Deathtrap Dungeon Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Gabriel Knight III Guardians: Agents of Justice MechCommander Nota de Tapa Battlezone Reviews Lords of Magic Juggernaut Nightmare Creatures Worms 2 Grand Theft Auto Sub Culture Scud Fallout Dog Day Riven Balance of Power FIFA: Rumbo al Mundial '98 Tennis Elbow Hardware Diamond Stealth II Informe Especial: Joysticks, volantes y Gamepads La Zona 3D Quake II modem a modem Soluciones The Curse of Monkey Island Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror Mortal Kombat Trilogy Emuladores ZX: La maravilla de Sir Clive Sinclair

Previews Starship Troopers Trespasser: Jurassic Park Starcraft Sin Sentinel Returns Diablo II Nota de Tapa Tomb Raider II Reviews Dark Reign Myth: The Fallen Lords Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far Incubation G-Police Jet Moto Hollywood Monsters Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror Hellfire Battlespire Wing Commander Prophecy Heavy Gear Beat The House 2 Actua Soccer 2 Hardware Cambridge PCWorks Informe Especial: ¿Qué PC Comprar? Emuladores Commodore 64 - Emulación 99% La primera aventura gráfica de LucasArts La Zona 3D Quake Soluciones The Curse of Monkey Island

Previews Duke Nukem Forever Test Drive 4 Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans FIFA Road to the World Cup 98 Starship Titanic Heavy Gear Half Life Flight Unlimited II Nota de Tapa PCFútbol 5.0 Apertura '97 Reviews Age of Empires Oddworld Abe's Oddysee Postal Sonic 3D Blast Lands of Lore Guardians of Destiny Dark Earth Sabre Ace NBA Live 98 Hardware DVD-ROM Informe Especial: Placas 3D Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold Informes Windows 98 Tamagotchi Soluciones 3 Skulls of the Toltecs