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In Retrospekt: Imitating the Pixelated World
Written by Bethany McCarthy
Cosplay - the much loved and probably just as much laughed at phenomenon of dressing up as ones favourite character from a video game, anime series or film. Once a Japanese only novelty, the craze has rapidly spread throughout Europe, the West and abroad since the late nineties. Almost any major city will nowadays host some kind of convention where you can go to see the efforts of costume-loving con goers… Some do it right.
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In Retrospekt: A Guide to Yahoo Japan Auctions
Written by Paul Monopoli
Japan: The land of the console. The place where the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Megadrive, Mark 3, PC Engine & most other consoles in the world started out. There are exceptions of course such as Atari systems, the Amstrad GX4000 & Commodore 64GS among others, but Japan is where most of the big hitters were born. It’s a magical land for gamers & if you know where to look online you can find a multitude of treasures. The most common place for collectors to find rare (outside of Japan) collectables is Japan Yahoo Auctions.
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In Retrospekt: Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone…
Written by Paul Monopoli
Television shows based on video games were just starting to make their mark in the early 90s. Britain had Games Master Live which was quite popular. This was aided by the fact that Games Master was also a magazine released by Future Publishing, which is what the show was based on. Future Publishing had some of the best video game magazines around in the 90s & naturally cross promotion took place across all of Future’s publications including: Game Master, Total, Super Play, Amstrad Action, Commodore Format, Amiga Format etc etc…
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