A load of issues of Beep have come through in the last few days: https://archive.org/details/beep-1988-11/page/15/mode/1up Here's the "you can totally hold your Mega Drive controller upside down" story from November 1988.
They uploaded some more PiO scans too, these have SC-3000 type-ins; https://archive.org/details/pi-o-1985-05/page/138/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/pi-o-1985-10/page/28/mode/2up That should be all of the ones that contain SC-3000 type-ins as according to Wikipedia the 1986-10 issue was the last.
Re: Beep and more Sega AI Computer things Another series of events we might have to care about, as it was showcased by Sega at the "CAI & New Media Show '86".
I think it's time for more Japanese AM Magazines... First up is Amusement Industry (アミューズメント産業). I've also seen the title written in English as "Amusement Sangyo". According to the Diet Library, the first issue was published in 1972. The magazine is still being published today. Last year, the January 1993 issue was scanned and uploaded onto IA. And within recent months, issues from December 1973 and January 1974 were scanned too. Unfortunately, they're water damaged. Obtaining pristine copies of older magazines is a very expensive endeavor. Recently, Chuulimta was able to acquire some issues from 1992; and the December issue is now available. This issue in particular has coverage of the 30th Amusement Machine Show, and a report of Sega partnering with a textile trading company to help operate amusement facilities. The remaining issues should be coming through soon, so be on the look out! I also want to share another item they scanned in: an issue of A-Login from June 2000. As far as we know, it was a single run arcade spinoff of LOGiN/E-LOGiN magazine. Nonetheless, there's coverage of AOU 2000, a whole medal game section, and coverage on games like Star Wars Racer, Power Smash/Virtua Tennis and Sega Marine Fishing
I managed to upload two of them, but when I tried to upload the third one, it started to give me this error "[a5a5872e14702e593c801f21] Exception caught: No specifications provided to ArchivedFile constructor."(it fails right at the beginning)... what a fucking situation!... i'll try a few more times and if i don't succeed i'll try again later... this can't go on like this... it's really frustrating...
Weird. Even halving the dpi (which results in an even smaller file size) did nothing – Same error message! Edit: Tried uploading a Beep magazines (one which we already have) but nada. Something must be broken!
The wiki probably just needs a little break. Sorry for being not much of a help. I suggest saving everything in a folder until it works again.
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27219 https://www.everygamegoing.com/lpublisher/abc/6418/cover_art/356 This guy scanned a lot of Micro Mart. Issue 62 (1988, not 1989 as stated) doesn't seem to have any gaming content, the 1991 ones have lots of Sega reviews (including Sonic), but it becomes more computer and PC focused later. There aren't too many issues scanned pre-1998 though, so it might be that there were still console reviews prior to 1998 as I did see a CD-i one, along with an Ecco 2 strategy guide review. Of course, from 1996 there were Sega PC games released, so some later issues will still be of interest (I notice Crazy Taxi PC budget release got reviewed at least).
