Monday, June 8, 2020

Electronic Gaming Monthly #72: E3 1995

The past three years I've put together Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) coverage that often includes some magazine scans and my predictions. Unfortunately, there is no E3 this year due to the virus which makes show predictions impossible. I could do some for general announcements as press outlets and individual publishers will be holding digital events over the next month but I'm unlikely to do that. For this year I have old magazine coverage and I also played a trade demo of SkyGunner. Although I've no idea if it's a demo that was distributed at an E3, it's something a little unique that ties to the press so I figured it is sort of E3 themed. As the title of this post exclaims, the scans below are from Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) issue number 72 from July 1995.

In May 1995 the very first E3 took place in Los Angeles and EGM's editors picked some of their favorite games of the show to highlight. As the article states, these are not the best games of the show and the "Review Crew" was not involved in making these picks. The first E3 took place when the industry was transitioning from 16-bit to 32-bit, and these were also the early days of 3D graphics. While I don't typically show M-rated games on the blog, at least not modern ones, I should point out that the scans do include games like Mortal Kombat 3 and Killer Instinct. Of course, 25 years ago the visuals were not realistic and I don't believe the images are too graphic.






If you read the EGM cover image above you might be thinking you'd rather see the Ultra 64 and I won't leave you hanging. It's actually only one image and we already know what the N64 looks like but the whole Press Start section is interesting as it covers the Saturn launch and PlayStation pricing as well. There is also a rumor mentioned that SquareSoft could be bringing the much anticipated Final Fantasy 7 to the Ultra 64...


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  1. This issue is one of the few missing from retromags please if you can scan the whole thing and post there so we can all enjoy

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    1. The Retromags website says "Scanning" under it; does that not mean someone is currently scanning it? I wouldn't have time to scan that this year anyways as it's big and I'm very busy working on multiple projects right now. I'm sure I have other magazines not yet scanned on that site but it's quite a time commitment. Thanks for visiting and for the comment, I don't get too many!

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  3. If you have more posts like this on this site, I'll keep reading. Not many folks/retro gamers talk about retro game mags, but I enjoy collecting 1990s EGM/Gamepro/Next Gen/PSM/DIehard Gamefan as much as I enjoy collecting PS1/Saturn/N64 games, etc...

    ***sorry for the duplicate post; the above is my other account. Please feel free to delete...

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    1. Okay, not a problem. The majority of posts here are related to game magazines from the late '80s/early '90s, mostly scans of reviews and articles. There are also quite a few posts relating to old toys. When I started there were weekly posts about video game ads so there are a lot of those too. However, I recently realized the Facebook links in those posts are currently broken. If you like looking at the ads you can use the links under the "Game Ad Links" tab above to see all of them. Thanks for the comment!

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