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Oh my, Mystaria surprise!
A copy of Sega Pro issue 55 leads me to Mystaria, a relatively-unknown retro game! During the era of Sega’s home consoles, video game magazines were one of the main factors in deciding whether or not a game was worth buying. Many of the …
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Interview with Robert Doubtfire, UK Sega Saturn champion (1996)
Following our interview with Alex Lieng, we managed (with the help of Alex) to make contact with the previous year’s Twix Junior Gamesplayer of the Year in the Sega Saturn category, Robert Doubtfire. Robert became the 1996 tournament champion for his stunning performance …
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Interview with Alex Lieng, UK Sega Saturn champion (1997)
As we said in our Video Game Market 3 round-up a few days ago, we had the good fortune of meeting Alex Lieng at the event. In 1997, Alex won the Twix Junior Gamesplayer of the Year competition for his dazzling Manx …
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Video Game Market 3 round-up
What a tremendous weekend we had at RetroCollect‘s Video Game Market 3 in Doncaster! Catching up with old friends, making new friends, helping people to complete their collections (if the guy who bought his last missing issue of N64 Magazine is reading …
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The SegaMags stock list
So, as we mentioned yesterday, SegaMags has a stall at RetroCollect‘s Video Game Market 3 in Doncaster today, and we’ve got over 2,000 retro video game magazines to sell. So how exactly do you go about determining whether or not we’ve got that one issue …
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Mean Machines vs Mega Machines
In all my years of collecting Sega magazines, I’ve found the name of one magazine to be particularly difficult to communicate to people: Mega Machines. There isn’t anything intrinsically challenging about the magazine’s name, but I’ve lost count of the …
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SegaMags is selling at the Video Game Market 3
Yes, it’s true. No sooner have we launched SegaMags, than we’re packing-up all of our duplicate Sega magazines (along with the vast majority of our non-Sega magazines) and heading off to Doncaster to sell them at the RetroCollect Video Game Market 3. …
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SegaMags is here!
Welcome to SegaMags, the website that will soon become the ultimate online resource for fans and collectors of Sega magazines (of the British variety)! The site is, admittedly, a little bit rough at the moment — the magazine pages are woefully …
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