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23 minutes ago, E-Day said:

I figured it's better to have a "bad" cover image for reference than not having anything at all. And it wasn't that bad compared to others I've seen, or to the ones I added last week in the Game Player's PC Strategy Guide section .

Yes, but even bad covers can and should be edited to look as good as possible, which is what I did here.

Also, I'm curious about these covers you mention uploading last week, since they don't exist in the gallery?  Are they hidden?

Again, the original upload looked too much like a bad photo and was not approved by me.  I tried to remove some of the glare from the camera flash.  Also, renamed it correctly before reuploading.

E-Day is too nice.

This image was not approved.  As pointed out, it looked like a (bad) photo.  The page was curved, there was a huge crease running across the page, and the filename was incorrect.  But I have fixed it as best I can, correctly renamed it, and reuploaded it.

So now, it's approved.

It's in the correct section.

Pretty much, though the currently en vogue term is otome.  From wikipedia:

An otome game (乙女ゲーム otome gēmu, literally "maiden game"), sometimes contracted to otoge, is a story-based video game that is targeted towards women. Generally one of the goals, besides the main plot goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several male characters. This genre is most established in Japan, and is mostly made up of visual novels and simulation games; particularly dating sims and life simulation games.

But yes, boy's love games are also covered.

With 3 different magazines covering this type of game currently being published, it really draws attention to how different the gaming culture in Japan is from the rest of the world.  Especially when you consider that there is only ONE magazine currently published that covers console games in general (Famitsu).

Hint: To view full size in order to see the many smaller details:

1. Close lightbox by pressing the "x" in the upper right corner. 
2. Next, press the "view full image" button.

(pressing "view full image" while lightbox is open doesn't allow the picture to be enlarged to its full size.)

Please look at the most recent Compute added to our download section (as scanned by Phillyman and edited by E-Day) for your answer (there are others as well).

These things are easily removed with a little heat, so there's no good reason to ever scan a cover with the address label still attached...BUT.  If a scan with label included is the only thing available, then so be it - it's better than nothing.  Just be sure to erase the name and address to be polite.

WTF is this magazine? "Monkeys and People and Computers?" 

This is the premier issue, by the way, not issue 8 (I corrected the title).

There's an interview with Robert Woodhead, the co-creator of Japan's beloved Wizardry (and later founder of Animeigo, the first company to release subtitled anime in the USA).

Weird.

6 hours ago, Areala said:

Ummmm...not that you're taking requests right now, but...yes please!

I uploaded a doujinshi by the cover artist to archive a while back that has some of his game character artwork.

https://archive.org/details/TsukasaJunTsukasaBulletSER20010812

Lara demonstrates the entirely ineffective "retarded gangsta" variant gun stance.  But it allows her to pull the trigger while simultaneously making the "come here" gesture with her index finger, so it's totally hot while she's missing you by several meters.

Nope.  Pretty standard for anime/manga style characters for ages.

This is a 別冊 (separate volume) of Famitsu, focused exclusively on the PC Engine. Only one issue was ever published.

Good lord no.  I own less than 200 Famitsus (not really sure exactly).  But even that is too many.  Darn irresistably dirt-cheap lot auctions...That's why I try not to visit Yahoo Auctions ever.  Unfortunately, auctions can be the source for cover photos, too...

It IS pretty stupid, actually.  I haven't even cracked the covers to flip through the pages of 95% of them.  I guess the thrill of getting piles of magazines for less than a buck each far outweighs my actual interest in them.

Susumu Matsushita.  Still doing the occasional Famitsu cover to this day.

I believe the pattern is - print an idol cover whenever Matsushita Susumu (the artist of all Famitsu covers) doesn't have time to complete a piece.  It's amazing he churned out covers as often as he did, week after week, decade after decade.

Nowadays, his output is far less, and the idol covers have been replaced by the same lazy reuse of promotional artwork that nearly all magazine publishers use.

4 hours ago, Ethereal Dragonz said:

Poor Areala missed out on the Nintendo and Super Nintendo era :-(.

Going back and playing them now just doesn't have the same context.

You should read some of the Tomb Raider fanfiction @Areala posted when she was 7 years old.  It's amazing - you would swear on your life it was written by someone in their 20s.  Apparently she was a huge fan of the game ever since it was released when she was two years old.   Child prodigy!

10 minutes ago, Areala said:

Yay, a magazine from my birthday!

You were born in 1994??  Good lord, I was in high school when you were in diapers!

58 minutes ago, Lilly said:

These cards didn't really slide into obscurity. 

That observation was in regard to the lack of any information related to these specific soundcards in my (admittedly quick) google search moreso than their historical importance.  There was a significant gap in time between the release of this card and ATi's emergence as a player in the video card market, though, so it would be interesting to know what they were doing during those intervening years.  Someone needs to update their wikipedia page!

It's not all fun and games.  I almost went blind from the godawful cover designs when uploading Dengeki Nintendo DS covers.  The Japanese cover gods giveth and taketh away as they please.

I'm getting real tired of this glitchy, broke-ass website.  Over 4 months I've been waiting for the gallery to be fixed.  Just when I'm positive that it will never happen, it dangles a tiny crumb in front of me to get my hopes up, like letting someone ELSE upload something.  I hate you, Retromags.

Wait, what?  How did you just upload a cover that's 2200px high?  I can't upload covers that are only 1920 - I get an error every time.

It's so tiny!  I assume trying to upload a normally sized cover resulted in an error?

To paraphrase the Joker, "This (site) needs an enema!"

On 06/10/2017 at 11:52 PM, SuperFancy said:

Well the Link Cable is referred to as the Tsushin Play-Cable / Interactive Play-Cable

 

I'm not sure why this comment just got posted even though it was written two months ago, but in response I'll just reiterate that many words can't be directly translated one-to-one.

Here's the dictionary meaningS of tsuushin:

Correspondence, communication, transmission, news, signal, telecommunications

So again, I'd go with "news" for the mag title, whereas the link cable would be something more along the lines of "transmission"

It could be whatever you want so long as it's close - perfect direct translation is generally a myth.  If I had to translate it, I'd call it Game Boy News.  Just as Famitsu is short for Famicom Tsuushin, or Famicom News.

Probably.  It's the third anniversary issue and there's mention on the cover of 1000 people winning an "ultra present."  No idea what that would be, though.