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NEWSCAST Sega party like it's 1999 (p.6) Ready 2 Rumble (p.7) Around the World (p.8) Battle of the Demo Discs (p.8) Star Wars goes Naomi (p.9) Mad Catz gets its claws into Dreamcast (p.10) PC games heading to Dreamcast: -Quake III: Arena (p.10) -Rainbow Six (p.10) -Starcraft (p.10) IN DEVELOPMENT Shadowman (p.24) Worldwide Soccer 2000 (p.27) Alone in the Dark 4 (p.28) WWF Attitude (p.29) Deep Fighter (p.30) Furballs (Fur Fighters) (p.34) MDK2 (p.36) NBA 2000 (p.38) Evolution (p.39) South park (p.40) Fl World Grand Prix (p.44) REVIEWS Red Dog (p.48) Speed Devils (p.52) Soul Calibur (p.54) Toy Commander (p.58) TrickStyle (p.60) Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing (p.64) Pen Pen Trilcelon (p.66) Buggy Heat (p.68) Blue Stinger (p.72) UEFA Striker (p.73) Incoming (p.74) FEATURES It's thinking... (p.12) Kojak: Crime in the City (p.18) Return of the Undead: -Resident Evil Code Veronica (p.20) -The House of the Dead 2 (p.21) -Zombie Revenge (p.21) -Shadowman (p.21) IMPORT SCENE Street Fighter Zero 3 (p.80) Giant Gram All-Star Pro Wrestling 2 (p.80) King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999 (p.80) Toukon Retsuden 4 (p.81) Pop N’ Music 2 (p.81) Climax Landers (p.81) Cool Borders - Burn! (p.81) Espion-age-nts (p.81) INTERACT Get Connected (p.82) DREAMCAST SOMUTIONS Ready 2 Rumble Boxing (p.84) Millenium Soldier: Expendable (p.85) Marvel Vs Capcom (p.85) Sonic Adventure (p.86) FORECAST Jeremy McGarth Super Cross 2000 (p.92) Planet of the Apes (p.93) Carrier (p.93) Snow Surfers (p.94) Stupid Invaders (p.94) Big Bang (p.96) Fighting Force 2 (p.96) Felony Pursuit (p.96) Credits: outofprintarchive.com

You can look at any of the existing game magazines that are around now except Game Informer. Nintendo Force, Pure Nintendo, Old School Gamer Magazine, RETRO; they all do "per issue" subscriptions through Patreon. You pay the normal cover price when they publish an issue and they do not have much advertising at all. I think Nintendo Force has no ads at all. Or maybe look at any specialist hobby magazine, like model railroading or quilting. Their subscriptions are typically much more expensive than the cheap prices you could get for a year of EGM or GamePro, and they have far fewer ads. I didn't mind the ads in game magazines because a lot of time they were interesting. Even if I had no interest in the game, they were often funny, amusing, cheesey, or had some nice art to them, so I read most of them. Some are permanently burned into my brain I think the downfall of magazines in North America has more to do with distribution costs than anything. Japan is tiny, so it's faster and cheaper to ship stuff all over the country. The same can't be said for the US and Canada, which are huge and require a lot of distance to move stuff. Magazines with low readership seem to thrive in the UK as well. One photography magazine I read has a circulation of about 26,000 issues, including digital, and it just keeps going and seems to be thriving. Future puts out several photography magazines including one just for Canon cameras and one just for Nikon, and they all seem to be doing well. Meanwhile the latest numbers for Maximum PC from the USPS Statement of Ownership form show their circulation is about 31,000. I would guess their content to ad ratio is 75:25. And with having to ship their magazines all over two countries, I am not sure how much longer they will be in print before Future shuts them down.

Added GamePro - August 2004.

Added GamePro - September 2005. Remember guys, chicks dig men who have GamePro subscriptions!

Features: Power Up: Letter From the Editor (Chris Bieniek announces some big changes, including subscriptions, more strategy guides, and even more tips and cheats squeezed between the covers than ever before. Ahhhh...it's a great time to be a gamer!) Readers' Tips (Letters from fans) Mortal Kombat II: Seven Pages of Killer Kodes! (New tricks, cheats and goodies for the Super NES and Genesis versions, including the infamous Fergality...bwa ha ha!) Tip Collection (Cheats, hints and tips for a huge swath of Genesis, SNES, Game Gear, Game Boy, 3DO, Arcade and CD-i games) Strategies: Panic! (Sega CD) written by Zach Meston Battletech (GEN) written by Zach Meston C2: Judgement Clay (SNES/GEN) moves list and secret characters Alien vs. Predator (JAG) written by Zach Meston Way of the Warrior (3DO) written by Zach Meston Notable Stuff: Tips & Tricks goes from being a quarterly publication to a subscription-ready standard magazine starting with this issue. Know what sells magazines in the mid-90's? Fighting games. Mortal Kombat II gets its third cover feature with this issue. T&T has teamed up with Video Games magazine to offer some guides for great games. Many of these are written by Zach Meston, one of the premiere gaming strategists and guide-mongers of the decade. The Readers' Tips section includes a huge list of hidden games within games. If you want more bang for your buck, try tracking some of these guys down. Is it censorship? T&T runs a black bar over the boob joke sprite in Panic! (SCD) when it's enlarged for the title page, but leaves the actual game screen showing it on the bottom of page 26 un-retouched. The Alien vs. Predator guide is top-notch, explaining game mechanics, offering little hints for survival, providing a suggested order of attack for the Marine scenario, disclosing the location of all the weapons, and printing basic maps for every sevel, sub-level and airduct in the game. No matter which faction you favour, this guide is insanely useful. That Way of the Warrior guide did more to make that game attractive than anything else we've ever seen. While the game itself is nothing special, and certainly no Mortal Kombat killer, it's very enticing with its behind-the-scenes look at development, the stories behind the actors portraying all the characters, and other goodies. Pity the game's not as good as T&T makes it look.