February 1991Pt. 3 ELECTRIC BRAIN (Console Ma'zine)

   ELECTRIC BRAIN issue 21. - Recommended Price £1 

 THE MONTHLY'ISH MAGAZINE FOR NEW AGE GAME PLAYERS

Edited and photocopied by Onn Lee, Monthly release (With an average of 20 pages, as full page adverts were not added to the page count).

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January 1991Pt. 4 ELECTRIC BRAIN (Console Ma'zine)

  ELECTRIC BRAIN issue 20. - Recommended Price £1 

 THE CONSOLE MAGAZINE FOR NEW AGE GAME PLAYERS

Edited and photocopied by Onn Lee, Monthly release (With an average of 20 pages, as full page adverts were not added to the page count).

More details to follow......

December 1990 Pt5. ELECTRIC BRAIN (Console Ma'zine)

 ELECTRIC BRAIN issue 19. - Recommended Price £1 – Bloody good value for money, I'd say!!

Edited and photocopied by Onn Lee, Monthly release (With an average of 20 pages, as full page adverts were not added to the page count).

C.E.S. Report (What's to come from states side?

Mega Games Reviews;

Issues 12 to 15 (May to August 1990)

Issues 16 to 19 (September to December 1990).

Now a Retrospective look at the Anime franchise games on the PC-ENGINE games console; 

That you may have owned from 1988 up to December 1990, these at times were very difficult to play if they were heavy with Japanese Text, for RPGs, and 'Digital Comics';

WATARU : MASHIN EIYUDEN (1988), BARI BARI DEN SETSU (1989),

COBRA – KOKURYUO NO DENSETSU (1990), DORAEMON – MEIKYO DAISAKUSEN;

CITY HUNTER (1990), RANMA 1\2 (1990), 

URUSEI YATSURA – STAY WITH YOU (1990), MADO O GRANZORT  (1990);

MAISON IKKOKU (1989), TENGAI MAKYO – FAR EAST OF EDEN – ZIRIA (1989), YS 1 &2 – ANCIENT YS VANISHED (1989), SUSANO-O DENSETSU (1989);

ZIPANG (1990), GUNHED (1990), SOL BIANCA (1990), 

COSMIC FANTASY – BOUKEN SHOUNEN YUU (1990). 

[NOTE: Now! Is "SUSANO-O DENSETSU" 1 to 4  taken from an Anime, and can you say the same for the "VALIS,  THE LEGEND OF A FANTASM SOLDIER 1 to 4 games??]

[NOTE: I just looked at the artwork for "SUSANO-O DENSETSU", and it screamed (to me) GO NAGAI, so I picked it up on a whim..... AND it was a Manga written by Go Nagai (1979 to 1981), and later adapted into novels by Yasutaka Nagai (1981 to 1987), what luck!]

November 1990 Pt. 6 Console Ma'zine

 

Console Ma'zine issue 18. NOVEMBER 1990 - Edited and photocopied by Onn Lee, (Monthly release) £1.00 (With an average of 20 pages, as full page adverts were not added to the page numbering count), printed\published on single, double sided A4 paper stapled to give a lefthanded spine, With Page numbering done by the Editor's hand no less!

November's 1990 issue 18 - IT'S WAR!!

PLUS

More games reviews

TECH TIPS

Bargains

Page 2.

EDITORIAL.....

Page 9

TECH TIPS (Game Tips, Hints, cheats)

Page 10A

RAVEN GAMES LONDON.

Page 10B

PC ENGINE SUPPLIES.

Page 17.

OPEN FORUM

Page 18.

MEGAWARE 

 the ultimate console hire club (for Megadrive & PC Engine)

CREDITS

Editor/Art Editor

Onn Lee

Weitters/Reviewers

Marc Foord, Dan,, the Man, Carlo Bernhardi, Thi Ono,

Games & News suppliers

Tsuyoshi Yamasfuki (Japan), PC Engine Supplies,

Megaware, PM Games, 

plus various magazines; Monthly PC Engine, Beep! Megadrive,

Marukatsu PC Engine, Megadrive Fan, Famicon Jounal, New Computer Express, etc...

AND YOU!!

ADDS;

Page 10A RAVEN GAMES LONDON,

Page 10B PC ENGINE SUPPLIES, 

Page 18  MEGAWARE - the ultimate console hire club (Megadrive & PC Engine)

Page 17 OPEN FORUM [LETTERS PAGE], SWAPLINE [classifid advertziments from READERS], 

and LATEST INFO;  "PC ENGINE SUPPLIES latest prices for Nintendo's Super Famicom - (scart £300 or PAL for £320) with two games, PC Engine GT (with Batman game) £290.

The Editorial tells us;

EDITORIAL.....

"Hiya Console freaks,"

"we shall be paying attention to the new commer to the console world - Ninrendo's Super Famicom,"

"some news: the guys at SUPER GRAPHIC are planning to produce a console magazine, and I have decided to be a partner - well they said they would provide equipment, dosh, games, etc..

Should it take off, I may stop CM, but don't worry, the 'new' mag. should replace it instead, and as it's to be sone mainly by us, it should be too much differant apart from better quality."

"Well, until the new issue, keep on Consol'ing!"

The emerging gaming console culture for Japanese imports was parallel to the fledgling underground Anime community.

October 1990 Pt.6 Console Ma'zine

Console Ma'zine
Issue 17. OCTOBER 1990  - Edited and photocopied by Onn Lee, (Monthly).

What I have uploaded is a very small percentage of the issue, focusing on news and any tie-ins with Anime (no Anime games were reviewed in this issue).

[NOTE: The issue had a front cover that was  single-sided, but most of the 20 pages were double-sided photocopied.]

September 1990 Pt.5 Console Ma'zine

Console Ma'zine issue 16. SEPTEMBER 1990  - Edited and photocopied by Onn Lee, (Monthly).

What I have uploaded is a small percentage of the issue, focusing on news and any tie-ins with Anime.

[NOTE: The issue had 12 single-sided\photocopied pages, not double-sided printing - that may have been the technology of the day.]

 The COVER

[Sorry Onn Lee, this issue has not survived that well 29 + years on!].

 Editorial 

Ads. RAVEN GAMES LONDON.

 More Ads. PC Engine Supplies.

Techie Bit in the Middle,
Swap-line,
Tech-Tips.

City hunter

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July 1990 Pt.6 Console Ma'zine

Console Ma'zine issue 14. JULY 1990  - Edited and photocopied by Onn Lee, (Monthly).

[NOTE: The issue had 12 single-sided\photocopied pages, not double-sided printing - that may have been the technology of the day.]

July's issue may not have any reviews of anime linked games for the month, but with all the early Japanese video games consoles being imported in to the UK at that time, and with the news that the Sega Megadrive would be getting a UK release, this was just as new and exciting as the parallel of the Anime & Manga Fan scene.

Yes! It's the Front Cover.

Editorial.

There was a interesting report entitled 'The 16 Bit computer' (Showvictoria, London 29^th of June to 1^st. July) on page 7 by Marc Foord, on this verging video game market. One comparison you can make to today's market, is the cost of what was a niche hobby with the NEO GEO games system that was reduced to £395 down from £450 (that is close to £1,000 in today's money), and the games were a snip at £200 each. Well out of the reach of most twentysomethings!

Atari lynx game console's news from the USA was that there was a Arcade conversion of the popular Video Arcade game Rampage (Now a motion picture in 2018, Oh how times have changed!).

 Japanese Games, and imported video game consoles.  

[NOTE: Raven Games was a retail computer games / console company based on the outskirts of central London. We were established in 1988 starting from a simple bedroom business in Bromley Kent in the U.K selling products via mail order. There were only a few companies around at that time in the U.K who sold the same imported products as us. The PC Engine from NEC, SNK's Neo Geo and the then brand new imported Japanese Sega Megadrive were the hottest new consoles around at that time! Following successful advertising campaigns in monthly magazines such as Ace, The Games Machine and the weekly New Computer Express, Raven Games soon outgrew the small bedroom due to queues of customers at the front door most weekends! (Remember this was the days before the internet!).]

[NOTE: "purchasing power" http://www.in2013dollars.com/1990-GBP-in-2018?amount=450 £450 in 1990 has the same "purchasing power" as £991.89 in 2018. - £200 in 1990 has the same "purchasing power" as £440.84 in 2018. - £35 in 1990 has the same "purchasing power" as £77.15 in 2018. ]