It has been brought to the attention of the Virtual Boy community recently that Jugemu (じゅげむ) Magazine is a Japanese magazine containing a good amount of Virtual Boy coverage, perhaps having even more Virtual Boy information than any other Japanese video game magazine known to have Virtual Boy coverage. It’s been confirmed already that detailed articles were made for the unreleased Virtual Boy games: “Flying Henry,” “New Japan Pro Wrestling: Fierce Fighting Legends,” and “Virtual Bomberman,” each with nice screenshots of those games. It is unknown how many more unreleased Virtual Boy games and other cool Virtual Boy information might be able to be found among the released issues of Jugemu Magazine, which is why this thread is also asking for Virtual Boy collectors and enthusiasts to help add to this wealth of information.
I myself was able to find and purchase the May 1995 issue of Jugemu, and I’ve attached high resolution scans of all of the pages containing Virtual Boy coverage. I’ve included page 86, the calendar page, as clear confirmation that the May 1995 issue was the very first issue of Jugemu Magazine. Through my researches online, I’ve confirmed that the Magazine ran at least until the April 1996 issue, which might be the last issue of the magazine ever made. But how fortunate for us Virtual Boy enthusiasts that such was the time period for the magazine, for this allows for plenty of Virtual Boy information, which has hitherto not been posted online, to be found among its issues.
Thus, if any Virtual Boy enthusiast would like to help join in the search for the Virtual Boy information contained in these magazines, please feel free to do so! It doesn’t even have to be in the form of trying to find and purchase the magazines yourself, so that you can create your own high quality scans or photographs of the pages containing Virtual Boy information. It could also be through inquiring among your network of fellow video game enthusiasts to see if any of them might already have some of these issues, in which case they could search for the Virtual Boy coverage and create high quality scans or photographs of the pages containing the Virtual Boy coverage and have them forwarded along to Planet Virtual Boy.
Over time, I will try to start making English translations of the pages containing the information that I find to be the most interesting. If anybody else can also help in getting English translations made for this information, that would be greatly appreciated, too!
Attachments:
HP Lovethrash wrote:
What is that article shown within the page 42 scan?
Based on what I can make out in the scan at the bottom of the page of the article within the page 42 scan, it is an article briefly mentioning the Virtual Boy, which appears in TIME magazine, January 16, 1995’s issue, beginning on page 56.
HP Lovethrash wrote:
Is there any information such as magazine publisher, authors, editors, etc in the pages that we could scour Google for? If somebody from Jugemu went on to more productive magazines still around today, maybe they could be contacted. If it only ran for a year, it wouldn’t have been hard for someone involved to collect the whole series.
Actually, I’ve done some more internet searches on Jugemu Magazine in the meantime, and the October 1998 issue is now the latest issue of the magazine that I can confirm exists. Of course, for Virtual Boy purposes, issues that are a few months into the year 1996 are probably the latest ones that might have Virtual Boy coverage.
I’ve attached a scan of the page containing the names of the people who worked on Jugemu Magazine.
Attachments:
Jugemu: No. 3 – July 1995
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
V-Tetris
Jugemu: No. 4 – August 1995
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
Red Alarm (2)
Vertical Force
Pop-Out! Panic Bomber
Jugemu: No. 5 – September 1995
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
Mario’s Tennis
Galactic Pinball (2)
Mario Clash
Teleroboxer
Red Alarm (2)
V-Tetris (2)
Hee-Haw in the Maze of Jack Bros.!
Virtual Fishing
Pop-Out! Panic Bomber
Virtual Double Yakuman
Vertical Force
Attachments:
Jugemu: No. 6 – October 1995
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
Mansion of Insmouse
Hee-Haw in the Maze of Jack Bros.!
Wario Cruise
Space Squash
Virtual Fishing
Galactic Pinball
Teleroboxer
Vertical Force
Red Alarm
Mario’s Tennis
Virtual Pro Baseball ’95
T&E Virtual Golf
Pop-Out! Panic Bomber
V-Tetris
Attachments:
Jugemu: No. 7 – November 1995
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
Virtual Boy Wario Land
Virtual Fishing
Hee-Haw in the Maze of Jack Bros.!
Proteus Zone
Space Squash
Mansion of Insmouse
Attachments:
Jugemu: No. 8 – December 1995
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
SD Gundam Dimension War
Mansion of Insmouse
Virtual Fishing
Jugemu: No. 9 – January 1996
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
Flying Henry
New Japan Pro-Wrestling: Fierce Fighting Legends
Virtual Lab
Space Invaders: Virtual Collection
Jugemu: No. 10 – February 1996
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
SD Gundam Dimension War
Virtual Boy Wario Land: Secret Treasure of the Awazon
New Japan Pro-Wrestling: Fierce Fighting Legends
Virtual Lab
Space Invaders: Virtual Collection
(I’m currently missing March’s issue)
Jugemu: No. 12 – April 1996
Virtual Boy Game Articles:
Virtual Bomberman
