Shenmue Magazine Article Project

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Hi all,

You may have noticed over the last few months i've been going through all my gaming magazines and taking screenshots of any and all Shenmue articles I could find. I did it because a) I just moved house, so in a good position to do it and b) I could do with selling a giant portion of them. I've done a few of these, but I thought it deserved more than just to be "random".

I'm not sure how to move posts from one thread to another, but you can see what i've done here
https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/random-shenmue-thoughts.22/page-134#post-143939
https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/random-shenmue-thoughts.22/page-136#post-144311
https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/random-shenmue-thoughts.22/page-136#post-144504
https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/random-shenmue-thoughts.22/page-137#post-144714
https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/random-shenmue-thoughts.22/page-139#post-144911

I've gone through some more Edge issues and found some more Shenmue stuff. My next target is to go through over 200 issues of Retro Gamer and post all the Shenmue stuff I can find. It's quite fun to do (and breaks the tedium of work...seriously underworked right now...). Hope you enjoy!

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Here's a 2nd batch of articles from Retro Gamer magazine - up to issue #78 (although i'm missing about 30 issues, I have every issue from #44 onwards). Sorry if they're not the best quality, but I hope you all enjoy them. This covers around 2004 - 2010 :) I've got another 170 issues to go through now haha.

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I wonder who this handsome lad who wrote this star letter is.....?! ;)
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Sorry if they're not the best quality, but I hope you all enjoy them.
Nevermind, because it reads and looks quite nice. And most important, too much nostalgia gold there XD Alex Kidd for president, Aeris Aerith dead as one of the most compelling moments... And this render
I never saw this one before :eek: All Stars Racing render? Where that come from?

I wonder who this handsome lad who wrote this star letter is.....?! ;)
"Please, tell me your clothes" - Ryo's dirty call
 
Work continues to crawl at a snail's pace for me (i've suffered both extremes and neither is pleasant), so i've gone through more Retro Gamer magazines to continue this project. Shenmue isn't mentioned in every issue (bearing in mind i'm only spending a couple of minutes per issue as most of it clearly isn't related), but I've found what I can. These are in issues between #79 - #122 (November 2013). Only 9 1/2 years of issues to go!

It's a bit before my time here, but it's good to see the Dojo represented here! For context, the one below the Shenmue City article about the 70 man battle relates to 100 great retro gaming moments.

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Hi all, here is the next batch! I've got one more mega batch to do and I should be up to date. I've decided to add anything Yu Suzuki related (I wish I started this earlier and not just concentrate on Shenmue), so if you want to move the non-Shenmue ones to the Suzuki forum, let me know. This covers up to May 2017.

There may be a few duplicates here with regards to Shenmue III, but figured i'd add them anyway.
Also if you want the full files, let me know and i'll e-mail them to the admins (I wish I didn't delete the old ones) :)

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Shenmue II makes 16 of Retro Gamer's top 150 games of all time (Shenmue I made 3).

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Hi all....I've been meaning to do this for ages...and i've finally been in a position where I can do the final batch of Shenmue related articles in the magazines i've kept/hoarded in the archives. Now I think i've found everything I possibly could, but it would be lovely to see Shenmue mentioned in magazines that I don't have!

As a bonus, i've included some Yu Suzuki related stuff too. Admins - if you want the unedited (full size) stuff, let me know and i'll see if I can send them to you somehow :)

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Finally, i've found a letter I wrote to Edge magazine soon after their Shenmue III cover...

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