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Gamest Vol.
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Back cover
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As we threatened last week, we're putting about 800+
different Japanese magazines and game guides up for sale
over the next year or so...or until we get rid of them
all. Since we won't have the time to catalog every
magazine in any sort of fashion, we're just going to
crack open cartons and sell what we find on a daily or
near-daily update that we're calling MOTD.
Magazines and paper products have the onerous quality of being
exceptionally heavy which makes storing them a burden.
Magazines also take up a lot of space - space which
costs roughly $32 per square foot at prevailing lease
rates. After pondering our dilemma, we've
decided to try and sell them off slowly. Most magazines
are in new, mint, fresh condition. Many were bagged
in polypropylene when they are shuffled into storage
many years ago so they're clean and pretty much
"straight off the newsstand."
For our first MOTD, we present Gamest Vol. 196 from
June 30, 1997. Heiachi chokes a panda on the cover of
the magazine and a 24-page Tekken 3 guide regales
readers on the pages of the magazine. The first two
pages contain an advertisement for G-Darius, followed by
a short feature which checks out the game and looks at a
little Darius history.
Highlights in the magazine include features on Vampire Saviour,
Street Fighter III New Generation, and Virtua Fighter
III. In the center and back of the magazine, there a
bunch of advertisements from JAMMA board suppliers. We
recognize quite a few of them as we did business back in
the day but sadly, with the fragile state of the arcade
resale business in Japan, many have gone by the wayside
or shifted into other markets. There's a section where
character sketches from Capcom's Battle Circuit are
displayed and Gamest looks at the game a few pages later.
A few 1-2 page articles are also included in the
magazine for Sol Divide, Densha de Go!, Gals Panic S,
Magical Drop 3, House of the Dead, Top Skater, and Do
DonPachi. A loose Tokimeki Memorial poster is inserted
in the middle of the magazine as a bonus.
We price the first MOTD at US$11 which includes shipping
with USPS Media Mail + Delivery Confirmation. We have a
fair amount of copies of this issue but we will mark the
product link [SOLD OUT] once they're all gone. Please be
mindful of that. Pricing for future MOTDs will vary
depending on availability. |
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