Sega Visions

[Insector_X_Perts]

Ah, Sega Visions.

I used to have quite a few of those during the late-mid 90's{which got lost in the shuffle of my family and I moving into different homes over the years}, most notably one that had the box/cartridge art to Zombies Ate My Neighbors on the cover.

However, I'm on my way to obtaining SV's back issues{both ones I didn't and did NOT previously own}.

Much like GriskaGyoran did in this thread http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...t=sega+visions from earlier this year, I found a few issues at a seasonally-open second hand-hand store this past summer{also for 50 cents}.

The shop had shelves and shelves worth of back issues of Nintendo Power{from the very first issues all the way up to the year 2000}, and some Sega Visions magazines were mixed in.

The lady running the place informed me that "no one ever buys these" and that they were donated to her store by a former subscriber.

She initially priced each issue accordingly, but then began to just give them to me free of charge.

I recieved all of the magazines that could fit in this dry cleaning bag that she had.

That being said, I only got about half of the NP/SV issues that she had{and I intend to pick up rest up this coming spring.

Most are Nintendo Power, but she still has some Sega Visions ones left}.

I currently have the following Sega Visions issues:

June/July '94{Sega Channel's debut cover}
Oct./Nov. '94{Doom 32X cover}
Dec. '94/Jan '95{Sonic & Knuckles cover}
Feb./Mar. '95{Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors cover}
Sept. '95 {Virtua Fighter 32X cover}

[Dirt Ball Gamer]

From the issues I read back in the day, it wasn't anything at all like a Sega version of Nintendo Power should have been.

I also found a lot of amusement in the fact that ads for games on both the SNES and Genesis, there would be absolutely no mention of there being an SNES version in existence. Not even the little SNES logo!

Lolz, no mercy back in the good old SEGA vs nintendo cold war days.. Man I remember liking the magazine back in the day, but I'm sure if I read it now it would be apparent how awful it truly was. Still I would like to see some of the old ads and screen shots from games for that elusive nostalgia high.

I wish I still had some of the dreamcast magazines they used to put out. I thought those were a lot more like Nintendo power in terms of entertainment and quality.

[Iron Lizard]

It was free and made by Sega. Even back in the day I never expected it criticize anything Sega ever did. Nintedo Power never did that cost money.