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3 years

We have officially decided to launch a Patreon for Gaming Alexandria if you might be interested in helping out! Please check out to find out more and feel free to spread the word. Thank you!!

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Gaming Alexandria

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2 years

In 1996, Sega announced The Sacred Pools, an adults-only FMV game for the Saturn, PC, and, bizarrely enough, Sony PlayStation. With a budget of roughly three million dollars, the game was fully filmed but never saw the light of day. Until now.

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4 years

People are digging up all sorts of unused art assets from the latest Nintendo leak. Here's some screenshots of some examples. Bowser from SMW apparently had legs at one time?

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Thrilled to announce that we have scanned and preserved EVERY PC Engine Fan issue. Please spread the word and retweet if you can so more people can know about this and enjoy them.

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Look at these early Koopas and Yoshi!

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Mario Bros. Special for the NEC PC-8001 has been found and preserved. We weren't even sure this previously existed but turns out it did! Check it out and download it here -

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The cult Wii title DE BLOB was seconds away from getting a port for the Nintendo DS. No screenshots are known to exist, and the game soon faded into obscurity. And then @RebelTaxi remembered he had a copy.

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4 years

A human in Starfox 2!

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1 year

We have completed our 2nd full run of a scanning a magazine. All 66 issues Gekkan PC Engine are now digitally preserved for all to read and enjoy in 600DPI! Check out our short article about it here and consider a RT to help spread the word!

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The Internet Archive recently added the ability to create lists. Here's one of the complete run of PC Engine Fan magazines I scanned and uploaded awhile back sorted by publish date. Again huge thanks to @Shadoff_d for loaning them to be scanned. Enjoy!

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1 year

The entire 1994 run of Weekly Famitsu has been scanned in high resolution. Tons of great games covered in these such as Live a Live, Final Fantasy VI, Mother 2, and much more! Please RT and spread the word and post what you find.

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2 years

It was believed to be lost forever, but we managed to preserve Taito’s unreleased Famicom game THE FAIRYLAND STORY from a stack of junk cartridges on eBay. In collaboration with @forestillusion and @hard4games , here's the story of what happened.

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4 years

Looks like an early version of Blargg and other enemies are in this screenshot.

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4 years

Looks like the leaf power-up was in SMW at one time as well.

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1 year

Famitsu 1994 is now halfway scanned, hopefully have it finished up in the next month and I can get it released. In the meantime here's some cool Live A Live ads with great artwork from them.

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A fully completed adult game called "Force of Sex" was found on a random Super Famicom copy of RPG Maker Super Dante. Check out the write up here and download it.

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1 year

Thrilled to announce we have scanned and uploaded every issue of Famimaga 64! Big thanks to our patrons that provided the funds for this as well as @ozidual who purchased and scanned some of these as well. Enjoy and RT to spread the word!

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Virtua Fighter 2 Maniax has been scanned in 600DPI. This was a request from SACH of our $50 Patreon tier so big thanks to him. Enjoy!

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3 years

Still not in the Gaming Alexandria Discord? You're missing uh...err... amazing content like this? Join today! -

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1 year

Almost through April on the 1994 Famitsu scans! These FFVI covers are pretty dope tbh

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4 years

Early Link sprites from Lttp where he had pink hair

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Grandpa Yoshi 👴

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3 years

Nintendo released Family BASIC for the Famicom back in 1984 and many homebrew games were created and submitted to magazines. Thanks to @ozidual we have now have some preserved and ready to play. Find out more here and how you can help us preserve more!

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4 years

Hatless Mario and different Peach graphics where she looks kind of crazy.

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2 years

In 1993, king of pop Michael Jackson starred in Scramble Training, an interactive space ride developed by Sega. The footage of Jackson's performance, thought to be lost for years, was discovered at a garage sale in Britain. Here's how it happened:

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2 years

25 years after the NES original, Majesco attempted to reboot David Crane’s A BOY AND HIS BLOB for the Nintendo DS. It never came out due to quality concerns. In collaboration with @didyouknowgamin , here is the story of what happened.

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4 years

Sarakon was a Game Boy puzzler that, while completed, was never released. The game was thought to be lost forever, but we managed to dig up a copy of the final game! Enjoy!

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1 year

We have a new release thanks to Zoinkity and an anonymous dumper. A ROM dump of the Nintendo 64 test cart! Enjoy!

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4 years

A Rayman 3 Prototype for the Game Boy Advance has been preserved and released. Has a decent amount of differences from the retail version. Check it out here!

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4 years

Nightmare fuel

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4 years

Looks like Mario might have had a pilot helmet when he wore the cape in early SMW. Hard to say but makes sense.

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4 years

We have released 8 games and 1 piece of educational software that have been preserved for the first time on the rare and obscure Bandai RX-78 Gundam home computer! Check them out and download them here -

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2 years

Athena by SNK for the Nintendo Famicom has been scanned in high resolution. Included is a recording of the tape as well! Unfortunately my copy didn't have the cover for the tape. Anybody that has it and will scan in high res please let me know! Enjoy!

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2 years

Love finding weird art in these international coin-op magazines. The crossover we needed but never got... Yo Noid Vs. Street Figher

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7 months

A huge exciting feat! Every Epoch Cassette Vision game is now preserved and playable via emulator. Check out our release article here and please spread the word by RT'ing! Finally we can all enjoy one of Japan's earliest consoles. Enjoy!

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4 years

Just a heads up if you have old game magazines you want to get rid of let us know. We're always willing to scan and preserve them and will gladly pay for shipping! DM us if interested.

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4 years

The source code for the #GameBoy Color game "Little Mermaid II - Pinball Frenzy" together with a GBC emulator has been released by the sole developer Dave Ashley, check it out!

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7 months

Makes me realize I need to scan the rest of the Dragon Quest stuff I have but here's high resolution scans I've done of some of the games/books if you want to enjoy some of Toriyama's fantastic artwork.

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2 years

Announcing a huge project I hope to accomplish at some point. The Nintendo Famicom complete scanning project. Already 300+ titles have been acquired and/or scanned. Read more here if you're interested -

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7 months

We have posted a page where you can download a huge collection of rare Sharp X68000 doujin and Takeru releases dumped from original disks by @ElCaminoOscuro and danham within a single torrent. Enjoy!

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4 years

New prototype release! It's Shantae for Game Boy Color! This is an early demo that was sent out to publishers during the pitching process. Lots of cool differences here! Special thanks to @forestillusion , @hard4games , and @LongwoodGeek for the find.

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1 year

Wake up babe we're preserving Fujitsu FM-7 tapes.

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2 years

Uploaded RPG World Map Collection Booklet Appendix in 600DPI from a certain magazine. This is a really neat booklet of drawn maps by various artists of some early Famicom/PC Engine RPG/Adventure games. Enjoy!

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5 years

The fabled "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" prerelease demo has finally been released to the masses! Check out some of the differences between the demo and the final build, and try it out for yourself. Did we miss anything? Let us know!

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4 years

Want to see some early Legend of Zelda development documents for the 35th anniversary? Check out what @GameResearch_E collected all in one place on our site!

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3 years

Cannot understate how much good Near did in all sorts of various aspects of improving emulation across the board and the impact of all of their hard work. Just a massive loss for the world. I didn't have much interaction with Near but the few times I did they were always pleasant

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6 months

Anonymous scanner asked me to upload this. Sega Video Game Illustrations. Enjoy!

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3 years

After years of working on this we now have ROM dumps of every Epoch Cassette Vision game thanks to Sean Riddle and Tetsuji Oguchi who managed to figure out a way to preserve these. Now maybe emulation or a FPGA core could be created for the system.

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3 years

Sometimes you come across some interesting stuff while scanning. 😬

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6 months

Realizing a lot of people didn't know about some of our complete magazine scans. Here's another PC Engine one I did that was loaned by @Shadoff_d as well. Full run of Gekkan PC Engine all on the Internet Archive! Enjoy!

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4 years

We have officially finished scanning and uploading all the NG Namco Community Magazines we have to the Internet Archive for all to enjoy. It's well over half of the entire magazine run! Enjoy and spread the news!

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2 years

5 years ago myself and a group of others in the VGPC Discord worked together to create high quality scanning standards that eventually became . Now over 8000 game related materials have been scanned and uploaded to @internetarchive .

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4 years

Another batch of NES manuals scanned and uploaded to the Internet Archive and will be added to Gaming Alexandria's website in the coming week or so. Thanks to @thevgdb for loaning us the latest batch. We're up to 210 manuals preserved now!

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4 years

Looking like the Super Donkey ROM may have actually been Super Donkey Kong. This was found in the gfx assets.

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2 months

Popful Mail by Falcom for the Super Famicom has been scanned in high resolution. Enjoy!

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2 years

I'm honestly not much of a game collector anymore but I got an insane opportunity not long ago and it finally arrived today. A boxed copy of Famicom Metal Storm that was played on the show and signed by Chief Arino of Game Center CX fame!

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3 years

For anybody interested in owning the rare physical copy of the recently dumped Mario Bros. Special for the NEC PC-8001 you can bid on it here. Auction will run for 7 days. All proceeds will go to benefit the video game preservation non profit @hitsaveorg !

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4 years

Color corrected Link -

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4 years

Small mario looked quite a bit different.

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2 years

Fifty years ago, video game consoles came into being! The Odyssey from Magnavox was a big and long project, and today we have gathered all of the Game Design Documents for it in one place! Check it out:

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9 months

The last missing Pokemon 2002 Battle Road Nintendo e-Reader card has finally been preserved thanks to mussundwerdich. Special thanks to Qwachansey for organizing this plus the video in the article. Check it out and download it here -

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2 years

Here's a sneak peek at our next big prototype release. It's a big one; can YOU guess what it is? Keep updated with @GamingAlexandri to find out!

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4 years

Early map

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1 month

Ridge Racer V Official Guide Book (ナムコ公式ガイドブックリッジレーサーV) has been scanned by @Chuulimta in 600DPI. Enjoy!

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1 month

Halfway through scanning and processing 1995 Famitsu. Release ETA is 4-6 weeks. Hope you're looking forward to it!

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4 years

All five volumes of Club2HD Positive have been scanned and uploaded. This was a Japanese zine that ran for a few years in the mid to late 90s covering early game emulation, copiers, piracy, and all sorts of interesting stuff.

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1 year

Absolutely incredible some people are taking this to mean Frank is anti-emulation? Like do you not realize who he is and what he's all about and he is making a solid point? I need a beer after reading some of the QT takes good lord.

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If your response to this is "just emulate them," then I need you to consider what your priorities are. I want the next generation to have easy access to the past. Ask any parent right now if their kid knows how to install desktop executables, or knows what a "torrent" is.

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4 years

Looks like Link!? Might just be a mock up but terribly interesting! Seems more like Zelda 2 than 3.

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2 years

Weekly Famitsu 1991 has been completely scanned by us! All Famitsu issues from 1986 through 1993 are now preserved. Thanks to @GameHistoryOrg for loaning the issues and @forestillusion for hosting the torrents. Enjoy!

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1 year

Final Fantasy II by Square for the Nintendo Famicom has been scanned in high resolution. Enjoy!

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3 months

Dengeki G’s Engine – Issue 2 – July 1996 has been scanned in 600DPI. Enjoy!

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2 years

Video of some gameplay from the Sega Saturn version here.

Sacred Pools - Unreleased Game for the Sega Saturn

Video recording of some gameplay of Sacred Pools, an unreleased SegaSoft game for the Sega Saturn.

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9 months

Thrilled to announce our latest article. Every Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy Game has Preserved & Scanned! Check out the scans and download the ROMs. Huge thanks to @gamespite for loaning them to me to scan and Sean Riddle for dumping the ROMs. Enjoy!

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1 month

Ridge Racer Type 4 Official Guide Book (ナムコ公式ガイドブックR4) has been scanned in 600DPI by @Chuulimta . Enjoy!

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5 years

24 years after its initial broadcast over #Nintendo 's Satellaview system, the game "Cooly Skunk" for SNES/SFC has finally been found again and released! Check out the great article by billscat-socks, ken, and togemet2: Thank you to everyone who donated!

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4 years

Complete Guide to i-mode Games has been scanned. This awesome guide shows some of the earliest examples of cell phone games and apps for Japanese i-mode compatible cell phones. Enix, Capcom, Bandai and more all make appearances here. Check it out!

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1 year

Another cute rarity, Mahou no Princess Minky Momo by Yutaka for the Nintendo Famicom has been scanned in high resolution. Enjoy!

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3 months

Dengeki PC Engine – Issue 19 – August 1994 has been scanned in 600DPI. Warning nudity on the cover. Enjoy!

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4 years

The title screen island looks quite a bit different.

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3 years

Thanks to the @GameHistoryOrg funding this we were able to acquire a complete run of Dengeki Dreamcast we plan to get scanned in the future. Check em out!

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4 years

Unused enemy from Yoshi's Island?

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Dengeki PC Engine - Issue 16 - May 1994 has been scanned in 600DPI. Enjoy!

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1 year

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Turtles In Time by Konami for the Super Famicom has been scanned in high resolution. Enjoy!

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Marukatsu PC Engine – Volume 40 – April 1992 has been scanned in 600DPI. Enjoy!

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4 years

Dragon Quest I and II Official Guidebooks scanned and uploaded in 600DPI. Lots of great artwork in these!

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5 years

We have a new article and scans of 11 issues of the magazine NG - Namco Community Magazine up! It was a magazine created by Namco to help market their game line-up in both the arcade as well as consoles. Learn more and read some of the issues here!

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4 years

We won a very rare Bandai RX-78 computer with a lot of games all undumped we're going to get scanned and dumped. It was very expensive at $1400 so if anybody wants to help out feel free to via and you'll be given credit in the upcoming article. Thanks!

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5 years

The Mystery of Charumera Zelda no Densetsu - The Hyrule Fantasy has been posted. We managed to get a hold of a copy of the disk @ClydeMandelin posted about a few weeks ago that was for sale and did a comparison to the retail release. Here's what we found -

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10 months

Scary stuff, piracy always has been but will especially be an important part of things being around for future generations with stuff like this continuing to happen with digital only media. Don't forget nowadays you don't own anything. You're just renting it!

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If I only played PlayStation, I’d be really concerned about an all digital future, this is bad and it’s crazy no one is talking about it

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We have preserved 4 Hudson Soft games for the first time! Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, Mario Bros Special, Nuts & Milk for the Hitachi S1 computer system. Also Yakyuu-Kyou for the Sony SMC777 computer. Find out more here -

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Got some VERY rare and undumped/scanned Phillips CD-i software in the mail today to preserve from a hardcore collector for the system along with a nice thank you note. Feel honored to be entrusted with this stuff!

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Tenchi Souzou (Terranigma) by Enix for the Super Famicom has been scanned in high resolution. Enjoy!

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Arcade Game Magazine – April 1996 has been scanned in 600DPI. Thanks to @Zerochan for donating this one to be scanned as well! Enjoy :)

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Maybe a long shot but thought I'd put it out there. If anybody has any PC Engine Fan Magazines they'd let us borrow for scanning please let me know. They are SO expensive now it's becoming very difficult to acquire them. They are stapled so can return them in original condition.

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5 years

Help us preserve video game history! We've received permission to digitize 9 banker boxes of unreleased Atari documentation from Ralph Baer, the father of the first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey. (1/3)

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Scanned and uploaded a foldout poster of Terranigma with great artwork from a Famitsu I recently had scanned. Enjoy!

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Not done by me but @sczther just made me aware of this. Gamebookscanner has done a full run of Saturn Fan as well as some other stuff. Saturn Fan CBZs are in 400DPI it looks like and nice quality! Glad to not have to have to worry about scanning these!

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We have preserved the entire magazine run of Program Pochette, a magazine dedicated to various early submitted Japanese computer type ins mainly for games. Check it out and spread the word via RT. Thanks to @GameHistoryOrg and @ozidual for funding. Enjoy!

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Famimaga 64 (ファミマガ64) – Issue 6 – September 20th 1996 has been scanned in 600DPI. Enjoy!

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