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German video game mags love to fill their summer i...

2010-08-30T01:39:51.340-04:00

German video game mags love to fill their summer issues with specials about porn or game babes. They did it back then, they still do it now.

i still have some mags from that, they even had a ...

2010-08-27T12:01:27.121-04:00

i still have some mags from that,
they even had a article about porn in videogames
and that was in 1993 ;p

>>But I guess the people at the hotline just...

2010-08-27T08:44:29.515-04:00

>>But I guess the people at the hotline just had a catalogue of FAQs for their games, whereas the editorial staff did actual research.

Yeah, most likely. I just found it funny that you could have heared about that great new RPG from them and when calling their help hotline getting told it does not exist.

I've checked the issues of the whole year now....

2010-08-26T14:46:03.258-04:00

I've checked the issues of the whole year now. No seperate coverage, but I found the RPG feature. I definitely should have called her back. (But I guess the people at the hotline just had a catalogue of FAQs for their games, whereas the editorial staff did actual research.)

I remember some magazine coming with a rather big ...

2010-08-26T11:26:02.455-04:00

I remember some magazine coming with a rather big Breath of Fire II poster; maybe that's where anon saw the article?

Though I don't remember which mag it was; I wanna say Mega Fun or Man!ac, but I'm not really sure.

I threw most of mine away, really thought to remem...

2010-08-26T11:02:45.921-04:00

I threw most of mine away, really thought to remember there was some even bigger feature about it in another issue... but it is at least in Jahrgang 8, Ausgabe 3, Juni 1996. It's in their "1x1 der Abentuer" article about RPGs on a one page spread. It even has a list of all RPGs/AAs out in Europe on the SNES and Gameboy that also mentions Soul Blazer

I'm almost 100% positive that wasn't in th...

2010-08-26T09:51:03.982-04:00

I'm almost 100% positive that wasn't in the Club Nintendo mag, I've got all of them and should remember such. Maybe you're confusing it with Lufia II?

The "This game doesn't exist" part a...

2010-08-26T07:52:12.362-04:00

The "This game doesn't exist" part about Breath of Fire II is funny, 'cause I remember the german Club Nintendo Magazine having a long article about it when it was released xD

I didn't start buying Video Games every month ...

2010-08-26T02:24:12.845-04:00

I didn't start buying Video Games every month until early 1995, but it quickly turned into my favourite video game magazine. Thanks to ebay, I now have issues 1/94 through the very last one plus a bunch of old ones.

What I really liked about them were their specials about Japanese gaming, e.g. RPGs (they had a Japanese guy on the team, Tetsuhiko Hara; check the first entry in this series for more info) and their letter section. Back then, before email and forums, people wrote shittons of letters, and they sometimes filled up to 7 pages with them, some of them about games, some about hardware, and some which were plain weird. Good times.

Ah yes, I did forget that other g. I've played...

2010-08-25T19:16:17.182-04:00

Ah yes, I did forget that other g. I've played the Genesis version. It's a decent game, pretty standard platformer. Puggsy is one hell of a weird character, though.

""Plugsy" wound up on the Sega Gene...

2010-08-25T18:24:21.429-04:00

""Plugsy" wound up on the Sega Genesis and Sega CD as well, but without the 'L' as Pugsy."

And an additional g, as it turns out, thanks. Interesting, the preview said a SNES version was planned as well, seems that got canned.

That Chakan game is actually Mazin Saga, apparentl...

2010-08-25T17:51:38.805-04:00

That Chakan game is actually Mazin Saga, apparently called Mazen Wars in Europe. Wasn't too bad a game, IIRC.

Sorry, I wasn't signed in for that. Long time ...

2010-08-25T17:09:40.343-04:00

Sorry, I wasn't signed in for that. Long time reader and new at blogspot -_-

But yeah, the only Chakan I'm familiar with is "Chakan: The Forever Man" on the Sega Genesis, and probably Mega Drive I imagine.

"Plugsy" wound up on the Sega Genesis and Sega CD as well, but without the 'L' as Pugsy.