What better way to follow up our Dave Perry interview with a brand new release of Sega Pro?
Even though it's the middle of winter right now, let us take you back to the summer of 1992 with issue number 8 of this great magazine. We start of our featured articles with a review for the Mega Drive classic Alisia Dragoon. Then we move on to the review of one of the best games on the Game Gear: Monster World 2: The Dragon's Trap, known in the west as Wonderboy 3: The Dragon's Trap.
Now we move on to a classic movie conversion: The Terminator and we finish off this update with a somewhat forgotten shoot em up: Trouble Shooter.

This week, we have something very special lined up for you. We were fortunate enough to be able to conduct an interview with none other than Dave Perry.
He launched and edited over 30 videogame magazines, helped launch two videogame TV shows, founded his own successful publishing company and became the best known journalist celebrity of his time. We caught up with the Dave Perry to reminisce about all these achievements and how it all lead to one of his very first passions.
Since it's quite an extensive interview, be sure to check back next week for part two.

This week we go back a little further in time and revisit the 16-bit era with the Mega Drive exclusive magazine: MEGA.
Right now we are February 1993 and issue 5 has just hit the newsstands. From our preview articles we select every time, the first review that grabs our attention is for the incredibly addictive multiplayer game Micro Machines. After this, we look at the Full Motion Video game for the Mega CD called Road Blaster FX.
And finally we take a look at Rolo to the Rescue as well as PGA Tour Golf II.

Back with a new update a little sooner than expected, we are proud to present you with the latest issue of the Official Sega Saturn Magazine, number 13 to be precise.
As this issue is packed with content, we could almost put up the full issue as a preview, which we almost did! So lets get started with the previews for this week:
We start of strong with an interview with Sega AM#2's Hiroshi Kataoka about Fighting Vipers. Then we go on to features for Real Bout Fatal Fury as well as Virtual On for the Saturn, but also Sega Touring Car Championship, Virtua Fighter 3 and X-Men vs. Street Fighter, all of which are for the arcade versions. Finally we have a couple of reviews for the Sega Saturn: Street Fighter Alpha 2, Tomb Raider and World Series Baseball 2.

Been a while since the last update due to lingering health issues that I'm having to be dealth with. But anyway, here is the latest issue of Mean Machines.
We start of this update with A Boy and His Blob for the NES, followed by two more NES games: Solstice and Super Spike V'Ball. Then we look at one of the very first Super Famicom reviews from Mean Machines: F-Zero. And finally we take a look at a rather underrated game for the Mega Drive: WrestleWar.

We delve back into the officially sanctioned archive of PC Player with the fourth issue from March 1994. As the front cover emphasises, the magazine's main focus is simulation, strategy and adventure, and there was some fine examples of all these genres this issue... With the recent reboot causing problems with its online features, we look back at the classic Sim City 2000. From there we jump over to Alone in the Dark 2, the eagerly awaited sequel to the survival horror adventure classic. we then take in a bit of police action with the fourth installment of the Police Quest series: Police Quest: Open Season. And rounding off the adventuring articles, we step into the world of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father.

Returning yet again to the Nintendo side of things, this week we are proud to present to you the digitally restored issue of the latest N64 Magazine.
Our first two highlighted articles a bit special. The first one takes a look at how N64 games actually work, while the second one looks at how to go about buying video game magazines in Japan in 1997. After all of this we take a look at the review for the underrated, yet highly entertaining, not to mention extremely original take on Tetris, with Tetrisphere.
And to finish of we take a look at the following Formula 1 racer for the system: F1 Pole Position 64.

This week we are proud to present you with the next issue of CVG under the watchful eye of Paul Davies. Like always, we have selected a handful of articles to preview before you download the full issue in one of the three sizes available.
Our first highlighted articles is the review for a little PC game called Duke Nukem 3D. Next up we have two Playstation classics. The first one is the birth of a giant franchise named BioHazard in Japan, but known over here as Resident Evil. The second review is for a sequel in the long running Konami series: International Track & Field.
And we end this week with quite a bang. As we are starting to get very close to E3 2013, every gamer can feel the tension building. So this is the perfect time to look back to the humongous E3 1996 special in this latest issue of CVG.

It's surprising what you discover if you take a little time to look around as we did with our videogame magazine collection. It's also even more surprising if you happen to come across a rather rare dummy issue of a Dreamcast Magazine. And we don't mean the issue zero or preview issues that are floating around the web in a pretty poorly scanned fashion. We're talking about the blueprint of a magazine that would come away with the official Sega Dreamcast magazine licence. This was a fascinating discovery and we felt compelled to learn more, so who better to ask than Mark Higham, the editor-in-chief and the man who was brought in to produce the Official Dreamcast Magazine for Dennis Publishing.

It's only just been a little over a month since we presented you with the last Sega Pro issue, yet we are already back for more this week with issue number 6.
For our selected articles we start of with Desert Strike for the Mega Drive, and keep with the war-theme in a completely different genre as we look at Warsong. From here we look at the chibi version of Valis for the Mega Drive, appropriately named SD (Super Deformed) Valis.
After all this 16-bit goodness we look back at some classic
8-bit fun with Bonanza Bros for the Master System and Spider-Man for the Game Gear.

Chances are that the majority of people wouldn’t have even noticed that there was a videogame magazine crash in 1994. That’s not surprising as it easily passed us by and only came to light once we looked at some of the facts and figures from that period. To fully understand the enormity of the ‘crash’ we need to go back in time to 1993 when the 16-bit consoles and computers were at the height of their commercial power and the old 8-bit range of machines were still clinging on. 1993 must surely go down as one of the busiest and most successful years in videogame magazine history.

This week we return to the magazine that pretty much launched our site back in 2009. Time sure hasn't stood still and we have grown from a site with only a handful of Dreamcast articles to what you see today.
Not wanting to keep you waiting any further, we proudly present the next issue of Dreamcast Magazine.
We sure have a lot of articles selected for this one, so let's get started. First of we have several fighting games lined up: Fighting Force 2, Marvel Vs Capcom, Psychic Force 2012 and Street Fighter Alpha 3.
After all that violence, it's time to put away those fists of fury and pull out the bazookas with Worms Armageddon. If that still isn't enough, you might be interested in Vigilante 8: Second Offense. And we finsih off with something completely unrelated: NBA Showtime.

This week, we have something rather special lined up for you. We caught up with Steve Jarratt and were able to talk to him about some of his biggest achievements in the publishing world.
Steve Jarratt is a long-time videogames journalist and magazine editor with 25 years experience in the industry. Having spent the majority of that time at Future Publishing, Steve launched a number of successful and influential magazines, some of which are still being published to this day...

Few people would ever think that a game was totally perfect in every way. Even the best games off all time have their faults, minor or otherwise, so it would be unthinkable to give a game an overall rating of 100%, for instance.
And yet, it is surprising how many magzine reviews did dish out perfect marks in the past. If anyone did complain about the high marks the response would usually be along the lines of “if you're going to use a scoring system and yet not use it in full then you may as well not bother using it.”
That may be true to some extent, but if you're going by that philosophy then why isn’t the other end of the scoring system used where we would see more 0% games?
The majority of magazines did stick to a more realistc rating scale of 0%-97%, but there were occasions where 100% surprisingly cropped up.