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Magazine of the Day (MOTD)
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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's 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 trade 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
itself 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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