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September bonus #2: Famimaga Video issue 5 (May 1989)
🕑 Added 2023-09-10 13:15:04 +0000 UTCGood Sunday to ya. Here's another bonus upload—the next issue in the Famimaga Video series. Do you call a VHS tape an issue? This transmedia stuff is a semantic nightmare, I tell ya.
What's not a nightmare is the material covered this issue (if that's what we're calling it?). The Game Boy launch! EarthBound Beginnings! New Mega Drive and PC Engine releases! Also, SD Gundam. Ah well.
If you are able, i.e. have the life experience to do so, I recommend casting your mind back to when you were a child obsessed with Nintendo games and whose only source for new info on upcoming releases came in the form of the half-dozen magazines published on the top each month. Actual running footage of this material was almost impossible to come by. Famimaga Video must have been absolutely mind-blowing at the time—a magazine preview that allowed you to see the games in action rather than trying to decrypt their workings from smeary photos of hastily captured game screens. I mean, this is showcasing direct feed of Game Boy, at the console's launch. I'd happily have dropped $20 bucks—the cost of an annual Nintendo Power subscription at the time, for the record—to get my hands on one of these bad boys. Man, kids in Japan didn't know how good they had it.
Anyway, that's my excuse for posting these things. I realize that not everyone necessarily shares my enthusiasm for reimagining my own childhood game fandom in a richer form.
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The moment you skip through the video, stumble upon a baseball game, listen to the very crunchy chiptunes that sound like they are coming out of a void and go...yep, this is a baseball game on the Mega Drive.
