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Famitsu Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Feb 25, 2013 • 02:57

Benjamin Stevens

I recently scored every single issue of Famitsu Magazine for the year 1995 in a Yahoo Auctions Japan auction, and I hope to scan and post all pages that have anything Virtual Boy-related on them in this thread. Right now, I only plan to try to translate the things that interest me most, and I’ll be posting those results over time in the “English Translations for Famitsu Magazines” thread, located here:

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=23140#forumpost23140

I hope that these pages will be of interest to many others as well. And who knows, maybe someone else might start trying to translate interesting information in them and post the results on this site. 😉

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Feb 25, 2013 • 03:03

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu Magazine Number 323

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Feb 25, 2013 • 03:06

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu Magazine Number 327

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Feb 25, 2013 • 03:08

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu Magazine Number 330

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Feb 25, 2013 • 03:10

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu Magazine Number 331

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Feb 25, 2013 • 03:12

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu Magazine Number 332

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Feb 25, 2013 • 03:14

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu Magazine Number 333

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Feb 25, 2013 • 03:24

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu Magazine Number 336

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Feb 25, 2013 • 18:28

Oh, man, This is great! Thanks for the scans! There’s some interesting looking articles and a bunch of new screenshots in there. Looking forward to what the later issues from 1995 will show, there should be quite a few unreleased games!

A little request; can you also scan the contents of issue 323? It has a small tradeshow image: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/articles/?s020261002

Feb 25, 2013 • 20:08

Benjamin Stevens

KR155E wrote:
Oh, man, This is great! Thanks for the scans! There’s some interesting looking articles and a bunch of new screenshots in there. Looking forward to what the later issues from 1995 will show, there should be quite a few unreleased games!

A little request; can you also scan the contents of issue 323? It has a small tradeshow image: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/articles/?s020261002

Sure, I will try to scan that contents page and include it in the next batch that I post here.

Information about unreleased games is the main thing that I was hoping to find in these magazines, so I already searched through all of them and made notes about them, which appear below. Basically, if you see a page number in my notes below, then something related to the Virtual Boy appears on that page of the magazine. But if you see additional words in parentheses next to a page number in my notes below, then something about that unreleased Virtual Boy game appears on that page of the magazine. Of course, I sometimes did not make notes for screenshots and articles of unreleased games, which I know already appear on this site. Thus, there wasn’t as much new stuff as I was hoping for but still some cool things. I do remember seeing two screenshots for Virtual Dodge Ball in a small article, so that was a nice find, but everything else will just contain some new information but not screenshots, unless I overlooked something. There is a small possibility that a few screenshots and new articles for unreleased VB games may appear within the January and/or February issues of 1996, but I don’t know if I will to try to bid on those issues unless I can maybe get all of them for a nice price or if I know for sure that I will be getting screenshots of unreleased Virtual Boy games that have not been posted online at all before.

1. No. 317 – 1/6&13/1995
2. No. 318 – 1/20/1995
3. No. 319 – 1/27/1995
4. No. 320 – 2/3/1995 Pages 8,
5. No. 321 – 2/10/1995
6. No. 322 – 2/17/1995
7. No. 323 – 2/24/1995 Pages 85, 94-100
8. No. 324 – 3/03/1995
9. No. 325 – 3/10/1995
10. No. 326 – 3/17/1995
11. No. 327 – 3/24/1995 Page 8
12. No. 328 – 3/31/1995
13. No. 329 – 4/7/1995
14. No. 330 – 4/14/1995 Page 8, 153
15. No. 331 – 4/21/1995 Page 9, 129
16. No. 332 – 4/28/1995 Page 8, 139
17. No. 333 – 5/5/1995 Page 147, 195
18. No. 334/5 – 5/12&19/1995 Page 163
19. No. 336 – 5/26/1995 Page 81, 91 (Street Fighter II Rumor), 123, 167
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20. No. 337 – 6/2/1995 Page 6, 131, 174
21. No. 338 – 6/9/1995 Page 8, 137, 178
22. No. 339 – 6/16/1995 Page 82, 85, 123
23. No. 340 – 6/23/1995 Page 11, 91, 123, 162
24. No. 341 – 6/30/1995 Page 149, 195
25. No. 342 – 7/7/1995 Page 155,
26. No. 343 – 7/14/1995 Page 145, 186
27. No. 344 – 7/21/1995 Page 9, 155, 199, back cover
28. No. 345 – 7/28/1995 Page 9, 110-112, 114-116 (Virtual Double Yakuman), 126, 130-131, 163, back cover
29. No. 346 – 8/4/1995 Page 8, 9, 21-27 (Virtual Double Yakuman), 84-85, 169
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30. No. 347 – 8/11/1995 Page 29-30, 160-161, 177, 223
31. No. 348/9 – 8/18&25/1995 Page 33, 92-95, 169, 205 (Virtual Bomberman & Virtual Block)
32. No. 350 – 9/1/1995 Page 10, 32, 138-139, 171, 212 (Bound High!), back of back cover
33. No. 351 – 9/8/1995 Page 74-75 (V-Tetris & NikoChan Battle), 137, 145 (Virtual Jockey), 152-153, 169, 217 (Virtual Jockey)
34. No. 352 – 9/15/1995 Page 131, 154-155, 169
35. No. 353 – 9/22/1995 Page 89, 100-101, 103, 139, 187 (NikoChan Battle & Virtual Dodge Ball)
36. No. 354 – 9/29/1995 Page 163, back of back cover
37. No. 355 – 10/6/1995 Page 38, 171, 223 (Sora Tobui Henry and Wangan SenSen Red City)
38. No. 356 – 10/13/1995 Page 29-30, 169, 211
39. No. 357 – 10/20/1995 Page 31, 128, 171
40. No. 358 – 10/27/1995 Page 163
41. No. 359 – 11/3/1995 Page 171
42. No. 360/1 – 11/10&17/1995 Page 10, 183
43. No. 362 – 11/24/1995 Page 163
44. No. 363 – 12/1/1995 Page 103, 104, 106-107, 109-114, 163
45. No. 364 – 12/8/1995 Page 32-33, 201
46. No. 365 – 12/15/1995 Page 31, 171
47. No. 366 – 12/22/1995 Page 24, 177
48. No. 367 – 12/29/1995 Page 22, 34, 193, 217, 243 (Doraemon: Nobita no Doki Doki! Obake Land)

Feb 26, 2013 • 13:09

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 323 Contents Page

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:12

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 337

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:14

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 338

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:16

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 339

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:21

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 340

Note: Of all the images in the magazine where there could have been some sticky substance on the page that tore up the image, it just had to be on a Virtual Boy game image. Thank goodness it wasn’t a screenshot of an unreleased game. (I don’t want to know what the sticky substance is…)

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:23

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 341

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:25

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 343

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:27

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 344

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:33

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 345

Feb 26, 2013 • 13:41

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 346

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Feb 26, 2013 • 13:41

Benjamin Stevens

Famitsu 346

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