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In following with the rules specified on our home page, as of January 1, 2018, all defunct magazines dated up through December 2008 are allowed to be scanned. Magazines still in publication may be scanned up through the December 2003 issues.

A while back I had asked if there was any literature regarding the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I was told the NES never became popular to the American public until 1987. Considering the official American release was in the fall of 1985 I figured there had to be something out there. By late 1984, the Famicom had already sold millions of units in Japan, shadowing the market 9 to 1. Knowing the collapse of the videogame industry left by Atari and Coleco, the retailers and the press stateside told the public that videogames were only a fad and home computers were going to be the future. At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show held in January 1985 in Las Vegas, Nintendo’s booth demonstrated Rob the robot along with other peripherals such as keyboard and data cassette along with the base unit calling it a Advanced Video System to avoid being dismissed as a video game only toy because of the industry crash in America during the last 2 years. This is the brochure they gave to attendees at the Nintendo booth. Brain Breaker of Nintendo Age has provided the only known photos from this booth. Between February and June of 1985, there are currently 6 different sources of media coverage. The Summer CES of 1985 was held June 3rd in Chicago. Nintendo had dropped many of the expensive peripherals and began to focus more on what was eventually released to the American public. The official American release was in late October 1985 but only for select markets. New York first, then Chicago, L.A. and San Francisco in early 1986. These photos were taken late 1986 but they were built for FAO Schwarz Oct 1985 release. They are the only known photos of this display. Steve Lin was one of the first customers during this period and he has recently discovered some public relation materials and order forms he had and scanned it for preservation. He also scanned the results of a survey Nintendo released in January - February 1986. In the May 1986 Issue of Computer and Videogames they review the Deluxe NES set as well as the current popular games. Edward Semrad wrote a column for The Milwaukee Journal on Saturdays. On August 9th he wrote his opinions on the NES and again the following weekend which were quite unfavorable. Nintendo would make another appearance at summer CES in 1986 but nothing is available besides this Ad they created for it. Edward who would later go on to become a senior editor for Electronic Gaming Monthly must have either succumb to the charms from the growing 3rd party games arriving from the orient or he was influenced by the mass hysteria growing on the street by children of all ages despite the attempts from the media to block the success because by December of 1986, he was beginning to favor the lunch box shaped magic box. In 1987 the Nintendo Fun Club News was published and this year Nintendo really learned how to market their golden goose. There was a scarcity for the system as well as the games. It was word of mouth at this point and that mouth was hungry for more of Nintendo. C&VG issues from 1987 are missing although I suspect they will contain more literature on the NES. The Milwaukee Journal once again casts light on the NES in January 17 1987 with columist Edward Semrad. Nintendo returned to the winter CES in 1987 and not much is know except this official trade ad. Edward soon wrote about it on June 6th 1986. 1988 became easier to find NES coverage with Electronic Game Players and Nintendo Power. By 1989, the mainstream realized that videogames were here to stay in America. From what I remember kids used to go outside and play. They loved the clean air and excercise. The day kids discovered the Nintendo Entertainment System and especially before 1990, instead of going outside, looked forward to going indoors and playing their Nintendo. Kids would be driven to disobey their parents and stay up till 1 AM on weeknights, 4 AM on weekends. I watched an episode of 20/20 from 1988 that interviewed children who owned the NES and felt as though I was looking in the mirror. ***Credits*** Milwaukee Journal, Author Edward Semrad https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=jvrRlaHg2sAC&dat=19860809&b_mode=2&hl=en Steve Lin, San Francisco California https://twitter.com/stevenplin/status/660502774182907904/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techtimes.com%2Farticles%2F102129%2F20151102%2Foriginal-nintendo-entertainment-system-press-release-includes-some-surprising-statistics.htm Frank Cifaldi, Game History Org https://gamehistory.org/nes-launch-collection-1985/ Brain Breaker, Nintendo Age, Jan 1985 CES Exhibit http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=148124 Contributors to Game History Org’s “The NES Launch Collection” , Google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0By3fjn1rWdp3Sk81a3FpLUpVSVU

Awesome, thank you! The reason that the page is interesting to me is because it details Parasite Eve speedrunning. I'm currently working on a documentary about speedrunning so finding some of the earlier Famitsu copies with them is useful to me.

As far as Aussie mags go.... Hyper is still running as a quarterly title nowadays and is still being released (at least digitally) PC PowerPlay is still being released, monthly I believe, although it's been so long since I have seen it on the newstands I may be wrong regarding the frequency Atomic: Maximum Power Computing was discontinued in 2012 as it was merged into PC & Tech Authority, a mainstream PC publication similar to Maximum PC but the Atomic coverage is there in name only really. PC & Tech Authority - This is up to issue 242 which with a monthly release schedule would indicate it runs back into the 1990's. Originally titled PC Authority APC - ex Australian Personal Computer is still in publication and dates back to 1980

E-day and myself are working thru the list of categories in the Magazine Database. We basically need to get an update on which magazines are defunct and which are still being published. Once this list is complete, I can run a SQL query on the database to update all 18,000 records with the correct "Active/Defunct" information, then right after that I can run another query to set the new "Allowed" field for all of the records. This will flip all the dates in the database https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X5o1VPsCVDW7k0ZmFkfOim0od3HMlkrRlAqCpywUqeM/edit?usp=sharing

...and call it Itchy-Ban. I think it will sell like crazy in Japan, it's the BEST! Ok, I realize only a few of you will get it, so it's a bit limited in appeal, but hey, I found it funny. I thought we had a joke thread on here, but I was unable to find it, so here we go. Feel free to contribute, and be warned that my humor tends to skew towards something you'd find on a pop-sicle stick.