Weekly Famitsu Magazine Issue 352(JP) 15th Sept - Front

Overview

Full Name: Weekly Famitsu Magazine Issue 352
Issue 352
Date 15th September 1995
Region: JP
Barcode: T1026253090291
Cover Disc No
Notes:

News

Flightstick Pro (Pages 12-16) - Small article regarding the release of the Flightstick Pro, not too much info, only that it will be 8,800 Yen and will work with Scramble Cobra and Return Fire.

Schedule - 3 page ad, with 60+ games, including some unreleased (Page 175-177):

- Sept - Rise of the Robots (Multisoftware), Kingdom Far Reaches (Interplay), Clayfighter 2 (Interplay), Dinonauts Dino is an Astronaut (EA Victor)

- October - TV Pot (Aladdin Studios)

- Summer 1995 - Street Fighter The Animated Movie (Capcom)

- Autumn 1995 - Station Invasion (Studio 3DO)

- Fall 1995 - Star Fighter and Battlesport (Studio 3DO)

- Sometime in 1996 D2 (M2 - Warp), Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Arithmetic 3, Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Kanji 2, Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Kanji 3, Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Japanese language 1 (Gakuman), The 11th Hour (Virgin), POed (Studio 3DO), Raindrops (EA Victor), George Iida Ten Maids (Pack-In-Video), Casper, Virtual Pool (Interplay), Housekeeper (Hummingbird Software)

Feature

Interview with Koji Takeda - Full page interview of the TV Producer, who worked on the unreleased game "TV Pot", the game was actually scheduled to be released on the 20th October 1995 (1 Month after the published date). Koji was the producer on the cult tv program the game was based on (The show broadcasted past midnight for an hour Monday to Friday). He was approached by Asobi Plans (日本アソビプランズ) who at the time produced games and CG, and asked if he wanted to work on a game together. They wanted to make a game based on his TV Show, of which he thought it would be interesting. He stated how hard it is to make a game, as it takes a long time and you cant make any mistakes. He said he hopes the game will gap between TV and games, as it allows people to easily experience the atmosphere of the TV industry. (Page 12)

Charts

Weekly Famitsu has several charts:

Overall Top 30 - Return Fire appears in at number 22 and Gex is at number 29 (Both new entries) (Page 14-15)
Most Wanted Top 20 - Policenauts is at No 15 (Page 16)
USA Top 10 - Three entries for 3DO, Space Ace (No 3), Wing Commander 3 (No 8) and Panzer General (No 9) (Page 17)

3DO Club

Weekly Famitsu has a dedicated section for 3DO called "3DO Club", Issue no 347 is 3DO Club Vol 50 - This could be the last dedicated page.

Pyramid Intruder - Overview of the game, including a giveaway (Page 67)
Blue Forest Story - Small "Coming Soon" article (Page 67)
Return Fire - Full page article with the author describing it as "The best game ever", also has a little interview with the Von Wolfsheild (The developer) (Page 68)

Adverts

Publishers

3DO Real - Full page advert with Theme Park taking up most of the space and small screenshots of Emit Vol 2, Oceans Below and Real Pachislot Simulator Vol.1 (Page 81)
3DO Real 2 - Full page advert with half Gex and half Return Fire (Page 82)
Chiki Chiki Machine Mo Race 2: In Space - Full page advert (Page 153)

Retail

Chadran - Full page ad, with about 30 3DO titles for sale including various Photo CD's (Page 169)
Sofmap - Full page ad with what looks (Can't do a translation) to be a small mention of selling 3DO (Page 170)
Bee1 - Full page ad with 6 games for sale (Page 172)
Pickup - Full Page ad with only a FZ-1 for sale