Weekly Famitsu Magazine Issue 379(JP)

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Overview

  • Full Name: Weekly Famitsu Magazine Issue 379
  • Issue 379
  • Date 22nd March 1996
  • Region: JP
  • Barcode: T1026254030296
  • Cover Disc No
  • Notes:

Research Notes

  • Need a clear image on the advert Emerson

3DO Club

Weekly Famitsu has a dedicated section for 3DO called "3DO Club", Issue no 379 is 3DO Club Vol 78

  • Grand Chef - Overview of the game, including a giveaway (Page 61)

Weekly Famitsu Schedule

  • Weekly Famitsu release schedule, 3DO has 25+ games, including some unreleased (Page 161-163)

- April - Mega Man X3 (Capcom)

- May - Rise Of The Robots (Multisoft)

- June - ClockWerx (Tokuma Shoten)

- Sometime in 1996 D2 (M2 - Warp), 7 Masters (Success), Dragon Lore (Multisoft)

- Unknown release date - Casper, Clayfighter 2, Waterworld (Interplay), TV Pot (Aladdin Studios), Station Invasion, Star Fighter, Battlesport, POed (Studio 3DO), Yokomachi 4-chome Ghost House (Warp), Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Arithmetic 3, Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Kanji 2, Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Kanji 3, Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Japanese language 1 (Gakuman), Housekeeper (Hummingbird Software), Return To Zork (Bandai Visual), Special Pachinko Collection (Sunsoft)

Adverts

Publishers

  • Blue Forest Story - Full page advert (Page 80)
  • 3DO Real - Full page advert with V Goal Soccer Taking up a third of the page, The Tower and Grand Chef combined take up a third, and Captain Quazar, Eigo de Go, Short Warp and Tokimeki Mahjong Paradise Special with small screenshots (Page 81)
  • Grand Chef - Full page advert (Page 125)


Retail

  • Emerson - Two page advert with over 80 3DO games for sale, the unreleased ones include: D2 (M2).....Need to get a clearer image (Page 132-133)
  • Pickup - Full page ad, with mention they are selling a 3DO FZ1 (Page 148)

Other

  • CSG (Consumer Soft Group) Consumer Show 96 - Full page advert for a show that had two events in March (Even though the dates are after the magazine was publishers), one in Osaka and one in Nagoya. 3DO's logo is picture as to being shown at the event. (Page 131)