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I tried scanning one magazine while still bound - a thin little Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games. But even that was such a pain in the ass I vowed to never scan again unless I de-bind first. I would never try to obtain two of everything though. If I'm gonna go to the trouble of scanning and editing something, I'm gonna damn well read that scan when I'm done, not some second copy of the mag. Actually, if I scan something I have two copies of, I throw them both out once its been scanned, since I no longer need it and can't be bothered trying to sell the extra one. (disclaimer: this might not be applicable to mags I have a great nostalgic fondness for. Every single one of the Japanese mags I've scanned were purchased this year, so it isn't like I grew up reading them or anything. It makes their destruction less painful.)

More fruitful search: Vol.6 no.3 Vol.6No.6

Dunno if this counts as "visually confirmed," but here's Vol.3 No.2 from internal ads. LOL. Just did a (fruitless) google image search for "Game Player's PC Strategy Guide" and marktrade, Areala, and E-Day's avatars are in the search results.

Oh, were you quoting the shipping price to Japan? I wasn't logged in or anything. I set it to give me the prices in $$, and it just assumes I'm in the US, I guess. Of course, even if I WAS logged in, it would be a US address. I don't have a Japanese credit card, so to sign up/log in to things like eBay or PayPal I have to use my permanent US address (aka my mom lol), since that's the billing address for my American credit card. I didn't check to see if this guy even ships outside of the US, but like I said before, in that case, I could just have it sent to my parents, who I could collect it from when I visit over winter holidays, or they could pass it along if they ever send me a package for some other reason. I order stuff from amazon in the US all the time and have it shipped to my parents because it's cheaper to have them to mail it to me than for me to order the same thing from amazon.jp, or else it simply isn't available here. It's also sometimes necessary to log into my VPN from a US hub just to access certain US sites that are blocked in Japan. You can move to another country, but you never really leave lol.

Hmmm. Didn't notice that. I do have a pet peeve about people who try to make all of their profit from the shipping. I wish there were tighter regulations on how much shipping someone can charge based on how much the actual shipping cost is. Although when I look at it, it says $7.35 expedited shipping. $8.35 total isn't unreasonable (although there's no telling what the final bid would have been in a bidding war)

Anybody want to take a guess at how far down the list you have to go to get to an issue that isn't EGM or Nintendo Power? Might be more interesting to figure out what mags are getting votes that aren't already at the top of the scan piles.

Winning bid: $1. I'm weeping. I've never seen that issue before. If anybody notices more issues like this before they're ended FOR GOD'S SAKE PLACE A BID. Or at least PM me about it. I can always have it shipped to my parents if they don't ship internationally.

In retrospect it's odd that I owned all of these issues, since I'm pretty sure our family computer at the time wasn't powerful enough to run practically any of the games being covered. I guess the fact that I spent my pittance of an allowance on it anyway says something for how much I enjoyed reading the mag.

Has anyone ever seen a cover pic of any of the iterations before it became Game Players PC Strategy Guide? I have no idea when I started buying this mag. Can't remember if I owned any of the earlier issues or not, but I can't find anything with google to help me confirm.