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    This should be the final issue for inCite PC Gaming, the magazine that tried to bolster its readership by advertising it was ONLY 99 cents per issue at launch. It wasn't a lie, but you needed to order the 12-month subscription for inCite Video Gaming at $11.88US, otherwise it was $4.99 on the newsstand. The sister publication was inCite Video Gaming which covered console games, but it also didn't last long. inCite PC Gaming was $1.99 per issue if you bought the 12-month subscription at $23.88. Plus it had a CD with demos and videos. Thanks for these issues, JimJam78. I only bought a handful of them on newsstands back in the day, but I can't remember which exact publications I had, so it's nice to have everything on the PC Gaming side of it now. Highlights From this Issue: We have the review for Diablo II (5 out of 5) followed immediately by Daikatana (3 out of 5), something you don't see often. This is a rather unremarkable PC gaming magazine for its time. It is most remembered for its celebrities on the cover that had nothing to do with gaming, for the most part. This PC version wasn't as bad as I remembered, but the console version had a different team, and the writing wasn't as good.
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    I'm sure there are dozens of YouTubers that have made videos for this game, but its always nice to see the official guide and the full-color artwork they put into it. This even covers the Extra Room.
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    I appreciate going back and making improvements in a previously-finished scan like the color, MigJmz. I'm so happy to often just get a new issue to look at, I don't care if everything lines up to the pixel or if the color has just the right balance, but the dedication to putting out a superior product overall is defiantly noticed by many. I don't understand the level of detail it takes to fine tune these little variables, but I constantly am impressed by how great the colors look in these magazines from over 20 years ago. Some of that might be the condition of the issue itself, but I'm sure a lot of work goes into it. Thank to you, and the others that take the extra time to get things "just right."
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    Thanks for your work on these bogusfrank. When I was buying these on newsstands, I usually stuck with the mags that I liked the most, but it's great going through these older issues to see what the others were like back then. Good work, very appreciated.
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    It's a shame all three of these Command & Conquer strategy guides are only displayed in black and white. The format is very basic, almost like I wouldn't be surprised if they published an online version using the same layouts. I guess 300+ pages in color would add $10 to the cost, and $25US guides don't sell well unless you're from a big property. It's nice to see these.
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    It's Saturday night and that only means one thing, dablais is working hard to release a handful of content for the site, working toward that Contributor of the Month trophy. Give him a thanks and some love, because he just published a 130-page guide, and two massive 300+page strategy guides, all for Command & Conquer. These must take some time to resize and get right. Good work
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    Thanks for a double-issue release to finish off the 2012 year of Official Xbox Magazine US. I was mostly getting my videogame news and reviews from YouTube and GameTrailers, so I didn't have magazine subscriptions going on like I once always had.
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    Thanks for these issues of Edge, I don't think we've seen new ones published for a few years at least. I love any gamming mags from around the mid-1990s, there's just so many consoles and games that were coming out each year. Good times.
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    I was looking at doing a video on them, so I got a folder of articles and scans on the games I've collected for years. I knew about the coverage that Tim Lapetin did in Art of Atari, but I think it was a $60 book at the time, and that was a lot for me to buy just see the few pages that it mentioned it. Thanks for letting me see it. Right now, I'm trying to get this other project done before the Xbox 360 store closes, but SwordQuest is standing by for one day. I thought of trying to hire someone to make replicas of the 4 contest items (or even approximations of them), just for the camera. But that would probably even cost several hundred dollars. God bless that UK donation because many of these you just couldn't find over here in the US. Thanks for your time on putting these out -- all magazines you've worked on. It's nice having them preserved, even if they don't get downloaded as much as EGM or GamePro:)
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    Thanks, dablais. I was going to ask the usual, "where do you find these obscure mags?" But then I decided to just shut-up and do my job -- it is a #1 issue, so I try not to kid-around on those and just put out some interesting history for those looking for it:) I looked through a lot of old Atari magazines years ago, looking at ones that had info on the SwordQuest Contest, and any others that were around the Great Video Game Crash in North America back around 1983, so I knew a bunch about a handful of them.
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    There have been around 80 publications that featured Atari products since the 1970's -- newsletters, fanclubs, reports, journals, and magazines. Atari World lasted 11 issues (May 1995 - March 1996). Editor Vic Lennard heads up this magazine, whose previous work was a Freelance Editor on Atari ST Reviews, another UK magazine that focused on the Atari ST personal computer, and ran for 35 issues leading up to 1995. It was published by EMAP, which was best known for launching Computer & Video Games and the Mean Machines series of magazines. But many know they started moving away from videogame publications toward the end of the 1990's, and completely exited by 2006. Highlights From this Issue: You won't find many reviews for games, but there are a few, like a review for Cannon Fodder on the Jaguar. You mostly have reviews for hard drives, tutorial packages, video titlers, scanners and things like that. You have articles on topics like MIDI, sequencing, and ones dedicated to programs like Quill 2 and Papyrus 4. The Atari Falcon was their new computer, so expect more coverage for it in later issues. Some will love the trip down memory lane if you used these systems back in the day. There might not be much content for those not deep into Atari computers already.
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    Super Gamer is a merging of the Super NES magazine SuperPro, and the tips and strategies from Super XS. It is focused on all Nintendo consoles and the handheld of the day, published out of London, England. The reviews follow the same similar format that many UK gaming mags did -- one main reviewer, with separate text bubbles for 2 other crewmembers to give a short opinion, along with a standard 100-point review system. This layout has been seen in a number of other UK magazines around this time. Highlights From this Issue: Interview with Jon Ritman, one of Britan's well-known programmers. There's an introduction to Keith Pullin, who worked on the Nintendo Hot Line for 3 years, a very successful business. He works on this mag now, but shares his experience for a few pages. Reviews cover Space Ace (snes), SkyBlazer, Wario Land (gb), NBA Jam, Humans, Equinox, Lethal Enforcers, ClayFighter, and several more. There are strategies for Lawnmower Man (snes), and Super Empire Strikes Back. The page layouts are what you expect for 1994, some text can be a little hard to make out but its not that bad. Nice and big screenshots, with different colors in the background for different games to help keep them separate. A good-size 132-page issue.
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    I'm too poor -- my girlfriend keeps stealing my tablets... but I just love her so damn much. lol [side note: I didn't know there was a whipcrack emoji. Thats seems very specific, but useful]
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    I always have enjoyed the Super Famicom boxart more than the US versions. So many looked more interesting, so it's hard to pick only one favorite, like Breath of Fire II just has more energy. Sorry I commented twice in a row, this was an older post so I figured I would give returning members at least two images to look at instead of just one. Honestly, almost any RPGs have some fantastic artwork, it's impossible for me to only pick one.
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    I always loved Operation Logic Bomb (1993) because it looked like Super Contra if somebody didn't know. "Oh, yeah. That looks like Contra. Sure enough." Maybe the Jaleco logo at the bottom would give it away, but then you tell them, "That's who published it in Japan." It's the perfect crime... until they look it up for themselves on their phone. lol
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    I can't leave my computer all weekend because I never know when dablais is going to drop new magazines. "I can't please my girlfriend because I keep getting out of bed to refresh the Downloads page on RetroMags.com to see if new magazines have been released." (you can use that as a quote on other websites for advertising, I release ownership of the sentence. Use it how you want. Thank you.)
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    Everything is running in fine form this early in the magazine. Highlight From this Issue: We got a special report on the Dreamcast with 7 pages. And it E3 1998, so the editors chime in on their thoughts and we get 20 pages of coverage from the major publishers. Reviews for Elemental Gearbolt, FFVII (pc), Mission Impossible (n64), Jersey Devil, Unreal, Vigilante 8, then some smaller releases, like Tomba and Road Rash 3. Interviews with president of Treasure, then actor James Woods. The Anime section has 5 pages. There are a few PC reviews, and Music and Movie reviews. It's a solid mag, 116-pages. The page layouts are nice and readable. The only thing I don't like is that nearly all titles use lower-case text, so for reviews they display the games like jersey devil, mission: impossible -- instead of capitalizing each word. I find it off-putting but that is how they display the name of the magazine as well, "gamers republic" instead of Gamers' Republic. A fine issue tho.
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    The Mafia games are good. I finished up some achievements in the Mafia Definitive Edition, which is a remaster of the original that came out on PS2, so it looks way better now. I beat Mafia II before and the DLC on Xbox 360, but I finished the Mafia II Definitive Edition on Xbox One X, but it was a bad port. Really disappointing, with glitches and bugs, and it didn't always run well. I like the game, and its playable, but it has issues. And then I finished up Mafia III that I started before. It's also very good, but it had many bugs at first. Many are fixed, but you do see a car glitch, or a mission doesn't work right sometimes. The story is good, and the mechanics are fine, but there comes a point where you are doing the same activities over and over before a target shows up. Then you keep doing it again, so it got a bit repetitive. It's still fun to play, and certain targets have different events that change things up, but you will see a lot of reviews that are a 6 or 7 instead of being higher. I did all the DLC for Mafia III and it was good, but several achievements didn't pop (like 4-6) so its annoying. The music is great in all the games -- lots of 50s and 60s classics. I was glad to finally finish them all. There are some things they did better than GTA back then, but they don't always have enough side activities, like in Mafia II.
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    I have always wanted to play Dragon Quest VII, I heard you can play it for 100 hours. I forgot about the 3DS version. That might be the best one to get. The PS1 version was hard to find back then. I remember looking for a copy at GameStops for a few years. How many hours do you have intro it, CastleVanity? Does it take a long time to get through? It must be worth it.
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    I got Batman Origins on GoG because the 360 version was selling for $30-40 used at least, if not higher. I got Last of Us Remastered (PS4) I haven't touched, and I got the Gold Edition of Resident Evil 2 but I haven't got to it yet. I often get a game on a good sale, but then I get tied up with work or other stuff, and then a year goes by:) I had to just say NO to playing COD with friends so I could play games I want to play. Doing COD multiplayer 3 hours every night gets me nowhere -- no achievements, no progress in other games, and my friends just yell and complain about getting shoot through walls. I'm not even getting Modern Warfare 3 right now. Thanks to not playing with others, I finally got through Mafia II (remastered), Mafia III, and I'm about to finish Shadow of Mordor (I stopped 4 missions away from the end, for some reason). I even gave up on Halo Infinite and trying to complete each season. It's been nice getting through some games I always wanted to finish. I even got Shadow of War installed and ready to go next. I bought all the content awhile back, when they had some big sales. I do agree, it is nice getting several games for $10 with all the content, it just takes a few years:)
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    I see that you " won the day on October 28". Good job, dablais. I didn't even know that was a thing, I was just naturally thanking you for each issue you put out. I can't Like any of your comments until later in the day because I'm already maxed out at the moment, but thanks for your kind words, as always.
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    I never heard about this magazine, then I noticed the full name: @Gamer: The Official Magazine of Best Buy. Brought to us by Future Publishing. It was 10 issues a year for $20US, and every issue had $20 in coupons inside. There was also a Gamer's Club section for their RewardZone. If you joined the program, then you could earn a $10 reward certificate for every $150 you spend toward video games, PC games and accessories at Best Buy stores. The people working on it seem to love games as much as you would hope, with lots of previews and honest reviews, from what I saw. Each issue is about 100-pages, and you get the Best Buy logo on about 8 of them for the first issue. It shows up for advertising, the subscriptions page, the calendar -- all places it makes sense. It doesn't seem "overused", and the editors are focused on finding you the best games to buy. Every review isn't a 5/5 just because it's sold at Best Buy. It would be understandable that these issues would primarily be found in the magazine racks at Best Buy, but I don't know if regular newsstands carried them. But now you know.
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    I can only give you so many "Likes" and "Thanks" in a day, dablais. But you might get them all today. Good job on releasing so many magazines in about an hour.
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    Damn dablais, does PSM and @Gamer owe you money? You just did 6 issues of one and then 7 of the other in a short amount of time. Are you trying to make Employee of the Month? You got my vote:) Good work, I was ready for a laid-back weekend with maybe a new issue of Cat Fancy being released... if I was lucky. Now I got stuff to read the rest of the week!
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    Not yet, I do have a PS4 but I often wait for a good sale. I never thought of it as a modern Tenchu, but you are right. A modern Tenchu would need to embrace new design and not just play like the old games. I know the team behind Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice originally started planning it as an installment of Tenchu, but that quickly changed into something else. Thanks for reminding me of Ghosts, I will keep a lookout for a sale soon.
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