AzureBlaze
Oct 15, 2011, 11:25 PM
While cleaning up the place...
I ran across my old magazines and thought to clean them out. But not before going through them (as one cannot keep everything ever gotten) And, as I was, I ran into a lot of old PSO and PSU stuff around. In honor of the 10th Anniversary, I thought I'd throw it onto the internet to keep it preserved.
Why?
Because not even I realized how much EGM did dote upon PSOW & PSO. They were throwing basically free press at the games every opportunity they got. Plus, dig the full page article ON PSOW itself! I'm not sure any other fan site got that kind of treatment from a mag.
This likely isn't everything, as I do not hold a subscription to every magazine, and I didn't have every issue of EGM either. If you have any article scans or anything neat, do add them to the thread.
First page:
This is the big PSOW post page, it's kept large so you can actually read the article in the browser here...who can you spot in the pics? People likely long gone...WHATELY, TSFOSnapple, Pixelate, DJ Donkey & etc. All on Anteres-8, no less.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6099/6248726906_477223a524_b.jpg
Here is where they collaborated with CARD battle
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6248203849_64f54fc25f_b.jpg
Famitsu had it for the Japan version of the game, so it made sense for a USA magazine to do it too. Someone's equipped it to Sil'fer, who is also on the cover...how meta? And not only old people have white hair, you magazine. Had anyone not seen anime at all by this point/used to hair = any color ever.
This is 3-in-1 cause they were small...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6248729942_d55114b8e0_b.jpg
The small one was a sidebar to the letters section...they ran the wedding photo for Wicked (the male) & Angel back when getting hitched online was something new. The EGM props one was from August 2004, issue 181, and the Teifu has a strategy with it...interesting when a magazine in such a modern era actually gives you a STRATEGY (yknow...like it used to have 'tips n tricks n codes' back in ye olde quaint days)
And the last is here for PSU people
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6248207931_f6bfd85ae6_z.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26375225@N08/6248207931/in/photostream
from when PSM Official previewed it. Look how the DeRagnus is outdoors. Also see how enthusiastic they are for it because they're so sure it'll be like "PSO but moreso". Also this was the day of wacky speechbubble adds to any screens they got...clearly. Look how they were hoping for mic support too and never got it.
I hope these dusty old items can be of some entertainment, looking at the history of stuff upon anniversaries can be cool.
I ran across my old magazines and thought to clean them out. But not before going through them (as one cannot keep everything ever gotten) And, as I was, I ran into a lot of old PSO and PSU stuff around. In honor of the 10th Anniversary, I thought I'd throw it onto the internet to keep it preserved.
Why?
Because not even I realized how much EGM did dote upon PSOW & PSO. They were throwing basically free press at the games every opportunity they got. Plus, dig the full page article ON PSOW itself! I'm not sure any other fan site got that kind of treatment from a mag.
This likely isn't everything, as I do not hold a subscription to every magazine, and I didn't have every issue of EGM either. If you have any article scans or anything neat, do add them to the thread.
First page:
This is the big PSOW post page, it's kept large so you can actually read the article in the browser here...who can you spot in the pics? People likely long gone...WHATELY, TSFOSnapple, Pixelate, DJ Donkey & etc. All on Anteres-8, no less.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6099/6248726906_477223a524_b.jpg
Here is where they collaborated with CARD battle
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6248203849_64f54fc25f_b.jpg
Famitsu had it for the Japan version of the game, so it made sense for a USA magazine to do it too. Someone's equipped it to Sil'fer, who is also on the cover...how meta? And not only old people have white hair, you magazine. Had anyone not seen anime at all by this point/used to hair = any color ever.
This is 3-in-1 cause they were small...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6248729942_d55114b8e0_b.jpg
The small one was a sidebar to the letters section...they ran the wedding photo for Wicked (the male) & Angel back when getting hitched online was something new. The EGM props one was from August 2004, issue 181, and the Teifu has a strategy with it...interesting when a magazine in such a modern era actually gives you a STRATEGY (yknow...like it used to have 'tips n tricks n codes' back in ye olde quaint days)
And the last is here for PSU people
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6248207931_f6bfd85ae6_z.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26375225@N08/6248207931/in/photostream
from when PSM Official previewed it. Look how the DeRagnus is outdoors. Also see how enthusiastic they are for it because they're so sure it'll be like "PSO but moreso". Also this was the day of wacky speechbubble adds to any screens they got...clearly. Look how they were hoping for mic support too and never got it.
I hope these dusty old items can be of some entertainment, looking at the history of stuff upon anniversaries can be cool.