Next Generation #1 on Saturn, Virtua Fighter, PlayStation, Ridge Racer, Daytona USA

The premier issue of Next Generation had some great articles on Saturn, Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA, PlayStation, Ridge Racer and more.

Here's a few:



Saturn at Consumer Soft Group show
http://i.imgur.com/79uYbPh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mbjBsQ2.jpg


PlayStation
http://i.imgur.com/xQ3pMEl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/E7yRkPM.jpg


Saturn
http://i.imgur.com/7nKbLbP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ISKcsOT.jpg


Virtua Fighter - Saturn
http://i.imgur.com/Q40b2YS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vhutbp7.jpg


Ridge Racer & Namco in general
http://i.imgur.com/tD9h3Vw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/w6lrkN9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/F7pKZnk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/A4wdODn.jpg


Daytona USA - Saturn
http://i.imgur.com/P1SmMRM.jpg

Virtua Fighter 2 - Arcade
http://i.imgur.com/gH1qz1C.jpg

I have every issue of Next Gen Magazine. The 1st issue had nice cover-art of Vitua Fighter. I really miss that magazine. :(

Next Generation #2 had more on PlayStation and went into great depth on Saturn.


PlayStation
http://i.imgur.com/eRLMcKv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6wuHtUy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0q13T6h.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/swfBreb.jpg

Neptune
http://i.imgur.com/dJVUudB.jpg


Saturn ...the motherload... I think everyone has seen
http://i.imgur.com/mVxsO86.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/z8hj6L5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/45gXKV3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xGxH1wg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/L7MnrKy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OXR2PHr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9K66l9R.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SC23qnb.jpg

Clockwork Knight
http://i.imgur.com/t6NQdH3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nEFqVDe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fxlnBXD.jpg

Tekken
http://i.imgur.com/kb3kRe8.jpg

I remember that first issue, I was so hyped about the Saturn.

Man, I hate that I threw away all my old gaming mags. :bang:

I bought this issue a few years ago and it only ran me back like 10 dollars or so. Trying to grab Die Hard Gamefan mags on the other hand is a pain in the ass.

More in-depth on Saturn Daytona USA from issue #5

http://i.imgur.com/ZzjYAo4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/u6ehZG2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/esvkULd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ESHKFjm.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/RdYzjWA.jpg

Wish I still had a copy of my own EGM 2 #4 January 1996.

A much more in-depth article on PlayStation development from issue #6.

I remember this article mainly for one reason--The PS-X (PS1) as it was known in early-mid 1994 originally had only 1 MB of main system RAM (in addition to 1 MB VRAM and 0.5 MB RAM for audio). Developers told Sony that they could make better games with 2 MB (system RAM). Sony listened and gave developers what they wanted. So the final PS1 had a total of 3.5 MB RAM.

http://i.imgur.com/kIl94k3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cDPPrse.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/spJVciv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/v2IfEnO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Rfgr4hk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sjBZkGf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2AiZDbo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OTnxXNK.jpg

Interview with Ken Kutaragi
http://i.imgur.com/hrXu5NY.jpg

This was also in the June 1995 issue so understand this interview was done a month or so earlier given magazine lead times. Ken said that (for PS2) within 10 years, we would have 10 million polygons per second performance on 0.25 micron silicon. Well, the actual PS2 arrived in March 2000 in Japan on 0.25 micron silicon with much higher (peak) performance. One could argue though that PS2 really could only do *less* than 10M polys/sec with texture mapping, shading, lighting and all graphic features on, in a real game.