Been working on this for the past couple of months and I can finally share it as the first mid-week summer release.

As summertime has always been the perfect time to play handhelds outside, I went through all the magazines I have left and found the portable issues.
I don't have many of these sadly, but they should last me for the next 6 weeks at least.

So without further ado, the first summer handheld release is Advance 2 - Spring 2002 (UK), which has just been added to the magazine catalogue.

Enjoy! 😙

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/Advance.html

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Heads up on a 50% sale on both the regular version of Megaton Musashi W: WIRED on Switch as well as the Deluxe Edition with all the DLC.

Been waiting for a physical release of this to show up in the west, as the Japanese retail release does not support English despite the digital version having English support.
So I finally picked this up myself after hearing tons of great impressions from this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PenOaeFgdVg

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The pinball talk from this afternoon made me return to Pinball FX on Switch.
I have barely played this version yet, and I’m still missing a ton of tables as I’ve purchased them all before on various other platforms, and previously in FX3, so I’m waiting for a sale to pick them up on Switch.

While it’s not anything spectacular at all, I did manage to crack 1 billion in Star Trek The Next Generation. 😊

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I have to say, Clear River Games has quickly become one of my absolute favourite publishers.

Bringing over so many timeless classics and releasing them physically in Europe.
Case in point, this was just revealed and I never thought it would get a western release besides perhaps an overpriced Limited Run edition.

https://youtu.be/7NnS0U4uIZ4

Finally back home...

Made an appointment with the eye doctor as I really should have had glasses for about 5 years now.

It got so bad that I'm having trouble reading text in games on my TV, so that can't stand!!! 😂

Found out that I have the eyesight of a goldfish after he showed me the difference without the prescription and then with.

The one occasion where "it looks like an N64 game" actually turned out to be accurate.
He didn't want to give me the ideal glasses right away since the difference would have been way too much, so you can imagine how bad it must be.
Gonna have to return in 12-18 months for a final prescription once I'm used to wearing the ones I'm getting in a week or two.

Looking forward to being able to stay up a little later as my eye just completely shut down at the end of a day when I'm already exhausted.

I imagine the past 20 years of working non-stop on magazine scans and the thousands of hours of photoshop didn't help either. 👀

Preview for Batman Forever on Super Nintendo and Mega Drive from CVG 166 - September 1995 (UK)

This issue can be found here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/computerandvideogames7.html

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Preview for Virtua Fighter 2 on Sega Saturn from CVG 166 - September 1995 (UK)

This issue can be found here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/computerandvideogames7.html

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