special feature
"Shanghai Adventure Tale"
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Shanghai Nanmeng Palace Electronic Game World
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Series [Artist is Homo Ludens]
1st BEGIN
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Series "Play Japan"
squid man, squid woman
in SAPPORO, in UTSUNOMIYA
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Team support is also a splendid sport!!
Calling the hot Latin wind to the stadium
Large J-League Fan Gathering
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Namco Wonder Eggs
"Two people can be more than two people"
dreamer interview
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Wonder Eggs Cooking
My ○ bento in the mood for a picnic
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Game is an interactive movie
vol.1 [Lucky & Wild]
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SHORT SHORT STAGE
- "YOUR LANK 亅 Masashi Todayama
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"Radio is American" Pretty Talk Norie Ohara
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NOURS INFORMATION
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NOURS Launch Commemorative Gift
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ASTROLOGY
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We have in this issue a HUGE Namco 40th anniversary retrospective. Lots of humble beginnings, and a “Where we’re at/the future”-style topics, that are themselves now ancient history.
I really enjoyed a bit on page 7 where they discuss “Hey here’s our overseas arcade, and there’s a Cyberstation and Aladdin’s castle, which is how I know Namco arcades as, personally.
A nice retrospective on Tinkle Pit takes over a spread, as well as an awesome deep dive of NebulasRay, which is not only a fantastic game, it’s the second game produced by the F/A team (thanks Nours, for this info.)
We have a wacky Godzilla feature, a trip to Wakayama and Toyama for Namco game centers there, and in the Elemecha Flash zone, we dive into Shoot Away II (which appears to be an FMV game?) Sweet Factory, and Shark Panic. There’s a bit of coverage of a Formula One racing event that Namco has apparently sponsored, at least in some part, and they throw in some Final Lap R information also.
Over on the Namcot side, we have YuYu Hakusho 2 for SNES, as well as Prime Goal 2.
Over in the Italian Tomato world, we have outlined for us how to make a spaghetti dish with asparagus, tomatoes, garlic, bacon and fried onions (delicious!)
Some wild photos of old-school Namco arcade times in this one, so check it out!
Editor’s note: This issue smelled so badly of cigarette smoke that I had to wash my hands after, and it has smelled up my scanning office, as well as my scanner. Though, cigarette grime is temporary, scans are forever.
Special feature
Page 3: Celebration Namco THE 40th Anniversary
Page 9: Namco 40th Anniversary "Tinkle Pit"
Page 12: Top secret acquisition "NebulasRay" Suppression military aircraft analysis list
Page 14: -Serial "Actor is Homo Ludens] 4th Camel Kenpachiro Satsuma Godzilla Actor
Page 17: Adventurers in the MUSIC world Akira Sudo
Page 18: Serialization "Playing Japan" in WAKAYAMA in TOYAMA
Page 22: ELEMECHA FLASH Aim for new products! ● New Shooter Way II ・ Rapid Fire ● New Sweet Factory
Page 24: The game is an interactive movie vol.3 "Shark Panic" finally started 1994 F1GP 26 The most notable stock is Schumacher & Alesi
Page 28: -New product information YuYu Hakusho 2
Page 30: J-League Soccer Prime Goal 2 Formidable 2 teams and new system added to TV screen to start new season of J-League
Page 31: Easy Itama cuisine with garlic and red tanged sardines are the decisive factors. Let's eat hot green asparagus spaghetti
Page 32: NOURS INFORMATION
Page 34: Recruitment of reader participation plans
Page 35: Reader PRESENT
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In this issue, there’s an extensive feature on something (page 3). Please get in touch on twitter @namcostyle if you know!
There’s also what I consider the shining inclusion in this issue, which I believe is the largest Cyber Cycles feature I’ve seen to date. I’m still bummed that game never got a home release. It’s pretty limited, but it could have appeared on an arcade compilation for sure.
We visit the city of Kuwana, and experience the raw, pure aesthetic of their game centres. They were likely ordinary for the time, but would be candidates for vaporwave artwork in today’s modern times.
There’s fantastic coverage here of the PlayStation ports of both Tekken 1 and Ace Combat (Air Combat). Given that this issue covers exclusively the home versions of these games, four months before the PlayStation launched in the United States, is a bit of a watershed moment here.
Special feature
Page 3: Yudai Edo memoirs
Page 10: Serialization [Cartoonist is Homo Ludens] 7th Nobuyuki Hori
Page 13: Adventurers in the MUSIC world / Yukari Yoshida
Page 14: System Super 22 installed Cyber Cycles
Page 18: Serialization "Playing Japan" ● in KUWANDA
Page 20: Easy Itama Cuisine with Home Chocolate Crepes & Fruit Crepes
Page 22: PS "Tekken" forbidden hidden tricks open to the public
Page 26: Hero of the Sky — Aim for the “King Down”! PS “Ace Combat”
Page 28: ELEMECHA FLASH Aim for new products! ● Air early entry championship
Page 30: Reader participation project "Readers talk a lot"
Page 32: NOURS INFORMATION
Page 34: Reader PRESENT
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In this issue, the main focus seems to be a “snow festival”, which appears to be a general snow gear convention. The really interesting thing though to me, is that I always thought of Alpine Racer, and more accurately their skiers having a certain clothing style that was exclusive to the game. As in, Namco developers just picked “skier clothes”, and called it a day.
However, this snow festival shows that this is precisely how skiers dressed at the time!
There’s also a couple pages on Rave Racer, which is a really good game! It’s too bad it never got a real home release. There was some of its DNA that made its way home via Rage Racer for PlayStation, as well as some of the soundtrack coming out later in other Ridge Racer games, but this remains a special game if you have a means to play it.
Also, did you know Namco published games for Windows 95? There’s The Psychotron and Quantum Gate I, both of which seems like haggard FMV titles, and both have been preserved in Redump and viewable on YouTube. Care to have a try?
Special feature
Page 3: (Yu) Ski course
Page 10: Serialization [Fighter is Homo Ludens] 8th Masaaki Satake
Page 14: Hotel the Hell Blow away the heat with this !! Real-time 3D-CG racing game Rave Racer
Page 18: Serialization ・ Serialization "Playing Japan" in ISESAKI in MAEBASHI, in SINGAPORE
Page 22: CD-ROM News Psychotron / Quantum Gate I
Page 24: It's still going on! J League Sengoku Era !! SFC Prime Goal 3 PS Prime Goal EX
Page 26: Love life + Physical life X-DAY2 "Young couple life 1 year or" 40% of married people, catastrophic during this century ● Japanese extinction or love zombies Earth's last day Near-death experience / etc.
Page 28 ELEMECHA FLASH Aiming for new products ● Catchinger Z new prize introduction
Page 30: Reader participation project "Readers talk a lot"
Page 32: NOURS INFORMATION
Page 34: Reader PRESENT
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７６５スタイル - A journey through buckwild 1990's Namco design theory. 