Found in Retro Game Magazines

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As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

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Fan art on an envelope of Mickey Mouse dressed as Ryu and Donald Duck dressed as Akuma. In between them is a logo for Disney's Street Fighter.

Fan Art from EGM2 #39 (Sept. 1997)

To hype the remarkable Mario Sunshine, Nintendo broke the world record of horrifically large pasta dishes, cooking up 3,265 pounds of spaghetti, surpassing the old Guinness achievement of 2,564. Fans got to jump into the three-foot high, ten-foot-wide pan to collect prizes.

An action shot of a man dressed like Luigi getting drenched with a faceful of spaghetti. He's holding some kind of Gamecube swag bag.

There is so much history and every day I learn more of it

(from Play, Volume 1, Issue 10, October 2002, p.17)

A magazine ad for Mega Man Zero 3. The ad shows Zero staring straight ahead at the reader. There are four screenshots from the game in the lower left. Text above Zero's head reads Mega Man... Now fully customizable!

Mega Man Zero 3

"Mega Man... Now fully customizable!" (Nintendo Power #186, Dec. 2004)

A photo from a magazine of person in a Sonic the Hedgehog costume standing by a barbeque with three Crash Bandicoot plush toys. Sonic is giving a thumbs up and poking at the toys with an implement. A caption below the image reads: No more E3 antics like these: Sonic roasting Crash at Sega's BBQ last year.

From Next Gen #78, June 2001

A look back at the early days of E3. (Fusion #1, Aug 1995)

Yu Yu Hakusho: Tournament Tactics

"Feel that raw churning in your stomach? That's the pressure of total command. (Unless, of course, it's your school lunch)" (Nintendo Power #186, Dec. 2004)

Sketch I did for SEGA back in my Ziff-Davis days for our Shinobi cover for Official PlayStation Magazine to use as a guide for their finished art.

Fan art from EGM2 #33 (Mar. 1997)

Cleaning Kit for Sega Saturn

"Let Sonic and Tails clean you Sega Saturn" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #87, Oct. 1996)

Tomb Raider

"You know how it really hurts to get kicked right between the legs? Wuss." (Electronic Gaming Monthly #87, Oct. 1996)

Nuke.com

"Coming to the internet December 1st" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #77, Dec. 1995)

GIANT BOMB

"Monsters have, once again, invaded Japan. Except, instead of crushing pedestrians and munching on rail cars, these new beasts are causing a frenzy of a different sort: that of the sales variety. As in eight million games sold and millions of dollars in merchandise. They're the monster pets of Pokémon. Next target? America. And considering their successful TV show, merchandising and hefty promotional push, the results promise to be just as phenomenal. Which means that there's a very good chance lightning will soon be shooting out of a few retailers' heads as well. Pokémon. Coming this Fall. Catch 'em if you can."

From our current scanning project: This is a rarely seen trade-only pre-release US ad for Pokémon, using the original tagline "Catch 'em if you can." This ad would have originally been run at E3 1998

Letter from Electronic Entertainment #11 (Nov. 1994)

Tetris Worlds

"Tetris is back." (Official US PlayStation Magazine #54, Mar. 2002)

Welltris

“Another Soviet Challenge Of New Dimensions” (Video Games & Computer Entertainment #12, January 1990)

VideoGameSpot

"At the end of your rope?" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #90, Jan. 1997)

After EGM showed off the revamped Conker’s Bad Fur Day readers wrote in next month to guess that it was their annual April Fools’ joke. (Electronic Gaming Monthly #130, May 2000)

Final Fantasy XI

"Share The Adventure. Share The Fantasy." (GamePro #183, Dec. 2003)

Nintendo anti-piracy blurb from Nintendo Power vol. 21.

"Bust A Groove Briefly Loses Its Rhythm 989 Studios issued a statement in late September announcing that their upcoming PaRappa-style dancing game, Bust A Groove, had been canceled "due to contractual reasons beyond [their] control." Originally released last winter in Japan by Enix under the name Bust A Move, the cancelation came as a big surprise to many in the industry, especially since the American version was enjoying good prerelease press and seemed to be on the verge of completion. That same week, while everyone was still scratching their heads trying to figure out what could have possibly gone wrong, 989 Studios released a new statement saying that the previous letter was issued prematurely, and that Bust A Groove was indeed still scheduled for U.S. release. An Enix representative told us that the problem was the refusal of both sides' representatives to work with each other on some minor contract details, and that after the cancellation their superiors got together, quickly resolved the troubles, and had a good laugh about the whole thing. The OPM staff did as well."

Today's wild find in the VGHF Library: Back in September 1998, the US publisher of Bust-A-Groove announced that it was canceled... and then UNCANCELLED it days later.

Turns out there was a contract issue, and somebody in PR jumped the gun. Yikes!

archive.gamehistory.org/item/9fbbe26...

Photos of Bobby Kotick, wearing a sweater vest and lounging in a golf cart.

Bobby Kotick: "You promise this photoshoot will make me look cool?"

Source: Next Generation, May 1999.

Clip of a news article from EGM with the following text: "No details are available as to what the game will be about as we go to press, although the collected management of both Square and Disney showed a rather unimpressive CG demo of Goofy that underwhelmed Japanese and Western correspondents alike. A Japanese journalist sitting in front of the EGM contingent even fell asleep during the conference, much to our amusement."

Reporting on the tepid response to the reveal of some weird game project that Square and Disney were working on.

Finally, a fight Gex can win. (Electronic Gaming Monthly #99, Oct. 1997)

Trillium Interactive Software

"Booted up any good books lately?" (Electronic Games Volume 02 #15, Oct. 1984)

Trespasser

"Right now you could be on a tropical island." (Next Generation #42, June 1998)

PSM's outlook for the Nintendo DS: "The backwards compatibility will help sell units, but unless developers can come up with creative uses for the touchscreen, we may be looking at another Virtual Boy." (PSM #87, Aug. 2004)

Mr. Do!'s Castle

"There's not a second to clown around!" (Electronic Games #15, Oct. 1984)