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Sonic Magazine Scans Page 3
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| These magazines can be from anywhere in the world. Since Sonic's games are so popular, magazines everywhere love to add him to the cover and do stories when the games come out. Collecing magazines with Sonic on the cover is great to do, as it chronicals the release of the different games, and will show in the future what was going on at that time. Plus, it's always nice to stockpile cool Sonic art! With this page you can see modern and not-so-modern magazine scans from everywhere. |
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This is the cover to the UK magazine "Computer & Video Games". This issue is from 1997 and announced Sonic Jam on the Saturn. Because this is a mag that covered 'everything' (Sega Nintendo PCs etc) it's extra curious to see Sonic hogging the cover especially when it was only for the release of Sonic Jam, which wasn't even an entirely new game (but it did bring about the start of compilations with extras thrown in) The subhead is "Cred or Dead Sonic shakes the Tokyo game show". Apparently the magazine thought 'cred' because they placed him on the cover. Notice also the orange spiral background long before Dreamcast chose it. Photographed and owned by JaQ S. | ||||||||||||||||
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This is Tomart's Action Figure Digest magazine. It is sold in the USA at certain book stores & news stands. As you can see here, ReSaurus' Sonic made the cover of this issue. The only Sonic related text is the logo and line below which reads "From ReSaurus", all other text is irrelevent. The figure shown is clearly not a final one, but could be either their tiny one or the 'giant talkin' one as they were essentially identical, simply scaled up or down. It also shows that ReSaurus did not have the best grip on what Sonic looked like, with the tilting eyes and oddly set ears. (this was mostly fixed, later) It's great to see that a Sonic figure made such headline news when it first appeared! Discovered by Berzerker. | ||||||||||||||||
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Who else to headline the official Dreamcast Magazine other than Sonic? Especially on the 'premier issue/issue 0'. It's 2 different covers for about the same thing...you can see the specs as the large numbers but in different order, and that the font is different as well. However, the BDG (big dumb grin) is quite present here, complete with the crooked teeth which were a mainstay of the time/style. Owned & photographed by RaeLogan | ||||||||||||||||
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This is a scan from the old Sega Visions magazine. In it, they had a sort of 1 page catalog called the "Sonic Mall". (Wouldn't it be convenient if something like that existed today?) You can see several things that are around different areas of Sonicgear, including the Caltoy plush, Sonic 2 wall poster, Sonic 2 Official Guide, Tiger Electronics game, the odd large watch/game LCD thing, temporary tattoos, the pinball tabletop game, and the classic face shirt. However, the underwear (at bottom, apparently a boys' breif of some type) and the remote control car (middle top) still need photos. For some reason, any vintage underwear item is difficult to photograph. The order form at the bottom was meant to be mailed in along with a check, to get the items from this page. It's an interesting scan to see, illustrating the types (and which, exactly) items were available all at the same time. Scan discovered by SonicBoy19 | ||||||||||||||||
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Sometimes, when you would buy a Genesis game, you'd get a little catalog with it. The 'Authentic Sega Gear' catalog is the point of interest here, as its entire front is covered in Sonic merchandise you could order. This came with games around the Sonic & Knuckles era, and pretty much all of its items are considered rare. The back had a big Game Gear | |||||||||||||||
| page, with different screen shots to lots of games, while showing Sonic holding up a GameGear, and some accessories at the bottom. The catalog featured a button-down jean-type fabric shirt with embroidered rolling classic Sonic on the pocket 27.50, a Sonic & Knuckles themed analog watch with patterend band, and moving disk with S & K 14.99, the Dude With a Tude long white tee/night-shirt (seen on USA Classic, in the SonicGear collection) 14.99, low-crown-style S&K embroider logo cap 12.00, classic Sonic relaxed fit cap 12.00, sleeveless denim stone wash button down jacket with 4 pockets, Sonic & Knuckles logo & words 39.99, blue S & K "The Best" sweatshirt 26.99 | |||||||||||||||||
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| white classic rolling Sonic (and logo) sweat shirt 26.50, Sonic BLUE 'em all away blue tee 14.99, 2 dudes with atti2udes Sonic & Knuckles long sleeve IR short sleeve tee 14 OR 15.99, Fun Second 2 None Sonic & Knuckles sihlouette black tee, 14.99. ALL of these were available youth small to adult XXL, so anyone could wear them. With all the items being relativly inexpensive, yet well made, and in all sizes Sega was really catering to the fans! Owned & photo by RaeLogan | |||||||||||||||||
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Nintendo Power celebrates the news of Sonic Colors with an all-Sonic cover to their issue. The all over graphic is Sonic running, with several wisps from the game. But look at the closest one, it has a curly-doodle on the head. The headline reads "Sonic Reborn! First look at Sonic colors, Sonic's solo space adventure on the Wii & DS". They're clearly emphasizing that it's different from previous 'team' games and games with rotating rosters of who you could play. Scanned by Kirchu | ||||||||||||||||
| This tiny cover of Nintendo Power is too small to show much, other than that it has Sonic, and relates to Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. If you have a larger scan, it can replace this small image. Scan found by Kirchu | |||||||||||||||||
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