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Title: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on November 26, 2017, 02:38:53 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/CH5PE3d.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/lsGufyL.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/tz6IceF.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/I2CYWZ5.jpg?1)

(https://i.imgur.com/FGzYr41.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/UIExgrd.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/DQJOk6t.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZXCOiKf.jpg?1)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZKkIjvS.jpg)
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: Digi.k on November 26, 2017, 04:55:49 AM
I remember reading this article back in the day.  Thanks for the scans.
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on November 26, 2017, 06:47:06 AM
I wish I could get the other page of the article from TGM April 1990, looks like there was a mail-in flyer over it when it got scanned.
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: gex on November 27, 2017, 07:22:54 AM
That flying control pad is huge !! wow
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on November 28, 2017, 04:34:56 AM
Not being from the UK, these are great for me to see for the first time.

(https://i.imgur.com/ZFs4OVj.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/86xeSjE.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/uHBoJ72.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/BWXSQwl.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/Elj9E9M.jpg)
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: exodus on November 28, 2017, 08:42:59 AM
Great stuff!! I love how they were calling it "The Engine"
(I actually hate it)
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on December 26, 2017, 02:00:38 AM
I have more for you all!

(https://i.imgur.com/lGQcfXi.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/yIaXUt4.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/MlAC82q.jpg)



Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: Ex_Mosquito on December 26, 2017, 02:05:34 AM
I remember seeing the SGX on a news report on TV in the early 90’s in the UK (newsround, before Neighbours?). It was a feature about a young lad who was ill and undergoing chemotherapy and they went to his home to film his everyday life, and in one scene he was playing After Burner II on his SGX. Weird that I remember that...
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: esteban on December 26, 2017, 02:44:49 AM
I have more for you all!

Awesome, I love all this stuff... especially the dude raving about the GIANT BOULDER! Ha! I know it is a big object (it is), but it's just a damn BIG BROWN BOULDER (BBB) and isn't nearly as exciting as the character sprites in China Warrior/The Kung Fu. That said, this IS an ARCADE KUNG FU game...

:)

More importantly, I love the photo of the cute woman/man wearing Z Cavariccis and proudly holding the PCE... we need more...

...and although the soundtrack to OutRun truly kicks ass, the music in Victory Run is pretty good, too (but I wouldn't say that Victory Run tunes > OutRun tunes like the author of the article!)

...anyway, lots of fun reading that! It has a BILLION times more personality/enthusiasm than most articles...



OH YEAH, BEFORE I FORGET:

10 games were out for PCE (damn!) with Namco soon to release a bunch... wow, that's crazy...

...such humble roots...

...30 year anniversary, indeed!
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: esteban on December 26, 2017, 04:25:12 AM
Z. CAVARICCI ENGINE

(http://junk.tg-16.com/images/Z_Cavaricci_Engine.png)

Always & Forever...
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: JAPJAC on December 27, 2017, 02:01:16 AM
JAPJAC`s TFP Fanitsu Capcom Power System CHANGER Definitive Resource is the first extensive and only competent expose in English on-line is here!:

(Under the TFP Features section):

http://www.japjac.proboards.com/
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on December 27, 2017, 08:05:47 AM
I found this article in the March 1989 issue of Crash Magazine.

(https://i.imgur.com/FDtJX9h.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/a54ikTE.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/dYB5yqT.jpg)

(the mentioned PCE give-away)

(https://i.imgur.com/JuSWZKk.jpg?1)
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: JAPJAC on December 27, 2017, 09:56:09 AM
JAPJAC`s TFP Fanitsu Capcom Power System CHANGER Definitive Resource is the first extensive and only competent expose in English on-line is here!:

(Under the TFP Features section):

http://www.japjac.proboards.com/
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on December 27, 2017, 10:22:52 AM
It's really time consuming looking for PCEngine articles in all these UK magazines, but Retro CDN and Google's internet archive are valuable resources.  I continue to search for more, perhaps others could help out as well!

Edit: from ZZap!64 issue 48 - April 1989.

(https://i.imgur.com/DyBdvmS.jpg)

and May 1989.

(https://i.imgur.com/hU4TFus.jpg?1)

(https://i.imgur.com/cgTLpxC.jpg?1)
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on December 29, 2017, 10:58:56 PM
And more!

(https://i.imgur.com/VkjbLJU.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/nC5qOW3.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/2Z6DOoF.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/IU0yLy9.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/tCAi3Mv.jpg)

Jumping ahead some years: CVG PCE Salamander review.

(https://i.imgur.com/nHfVPNq.jpg)

Bonus -
Jumping back again some years, C&VG Salamander and R-Type arcade reviews

(https://i.imgur.com/iVKP5ML.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/b7hrpBE.jpg)
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on December 29, 2017, 11:09:45 PM
C&VG April 1993 

(https://i.imgur.com/CBjXu4Y.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/TKEJaJI.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/0t8Q8HE.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/XS01hd0.jpg)

Some notable errors though.  PC Engine released October 1987, not August 1988, and the SuperGrafx never made it to the states, not "barely made it" unless you count imports!
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on December 29, 2017, 11:25:35 PM
I wish I could read French... Joystick issue 8 - September 1990.

(https://i.imgur.com/VoZONJ0.jpg?1)
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: esteban on December 30, 2017, 04:07:11 AM
SGX ENGINE: I will be reading these when I get a chance, but I wanted to pre-emptively say "thank you!" for the reading material...

Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: JAPJAC on December 30, 2017, 08:53:49 AM
JAPJAC`s TFP Fanitsu Capcom Power System CHANGER Definitive Resource is the first extensive and only competent expose in English on-line is here!:

(Under the TFP Features section):

http://www.japjac.proboards.com/
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: JAPJAC on December 30, 2017, 09:09:31 AM
JAPJAC`s TFP Fanitsu Capcom Power System CHANGER Definitive Resource is the first extensive and only competent expose in English on-line is here!:

(Under the TFP Features section):

http://www.japjac.proboards.com/
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: SGX Engine on December 31, 2017, 03:30:33 AM
SGX Engine-You are doing God's work, thank you.  What a treat it is to see all these old printings again, and some are even new to me.  Print is forever.

I don't know if it will help your arduous task at all, but there is a playlist on my YouTube channel titled 'Retro Magazines'.  I went through every issue of ZERO, C+VG (Mean Machines section), Sinclair User, ACE, RAZE (they covered the PCE heavily) and The Games Machine (what a magazine) and anything PCE will be shown.  Although way too small to read/enjoy and thus screen grab, the videos are there for a reference anyway, if needs be, for those mags.

JAPJAC - Thank you for mentioning your YouTube channel.

The 'Retro Magazines' playlist is making what I wanted to do, in finding PCE articles, considerably easier, it's excellent as a reference.
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: esteban on December 31, 2017, 06:11:05 AM
SGX Engine-You are doing God's work, thank you.  What a treat it is to see all these old printings again, and some are even new to me.  Print is forever.

I don't know if it will help your arduous task at all, but there is a playlist on my YouTube channel titled 'Retro Magazines'.  I went through every issue of ZERO, C+VG (Mean Machines section), Sinclair User, ACE, RAZE (they covered the PCE heavily) and The Games Machine (what a magazine) and anything PCE will be shown.  Although way too small to read/enjoy and thus screen grab, the videos are there for a reference anyway, if needs be, for those mags.


JAPJAC - Thank you for mentioning your YouTube channel.

The 'Retro Magazines' playlist is making what I wanted to do, in finding PCE articles, considerably easier, it's excellent as a reference.


REQUEST: If you one (both! Division of labor!) of you fine bastards type up a list, I will happily include it in my reference table here:

http://archives.tg-16.com/magazine_database.htm

NOTE: please note any specific games/page numbers (to make it as useful as possible).

I have actually been working on a major update to that table and my long-neglected project to document all that is PCE.

:)
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: JAPJAC on January 01, 2018, 11:59:16 PM
JAPJAC`s TFP Fanitsu Capcom Power System CHANGER Definitive Resource is the first extensive and only competent expose in English on-line is here!:

(Under the TFP Features section):

http://www.japjac.proboards.com/
Title: Re: C&VG + The Games Machine (UK mags) on the SuperGrafx
Post by: touko on January 02, 2018, 02:10:26 AM
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I wish I could read French... Joystick issue 8 - September 1990.
it's better to not reading,because there is some bullshits .   :-s