Famimaga Video 1989-05 [Issue 5] VHS Rip

This is a Japanese-language upload. For best results, please turn on subtitles and set them to auto-translate.
A video rip of the fifth issue of Family Magazine's video companion series, which ran for a couple of years during the peak Bubble Economy days. This one finally brings some fresh content to the series after three tapes dominated by Super Mario Bros. 3, Final Fantasy II, and Famista ’88. The main features here are an SD Gundam game (boo) and the Game Boy's debut (hoorah), which includes some beautiful GB direct feed capture from what appears to be the rare and desirable Wide Boy, the precursor to Super Game Boy which Nintendo only made available to developers and media. Tons of other interesting items here, culminating in a breathless preview of Nintendo's own Dragon Quest clone, a little game called Mother...
0:43 Contents
1:15 PREVIEWS
1:20 SD Gundam World: Gatchapon Senshi 2: Capsule Senki
4:10 Game Boy
4:15 Super Mario Land
5:53 Baseball
6:32 Alleyway
6:53 Yakuman
7:22 FEATURES
7:30 Dragon Spirit
10:11 Genghis Khan
12:35 River City Ransom
15:42 Dragon Buster II
18:23 TRAILERS
18:25 Ganbare Goemon
18:55 Hoops
19:25 HARDWARE
19:29 Famicom Titler
20:25 ULTRA TECHNIQUE
20:44 Super Mario series
21:44 Super Mario Bros. 3
22:15 Ganbare Goemon
22:27 Final Fantasy II
23:00 Gradius II
23:18 Mega Man 2
23:31 Famista ’88
23:42 Family Mahjong II
23:52 PC ENGINE FAN
23:57 Twin Cobra
26:53 P-47: The Freedom Fighter
29:43 Pac-Land
32:10 UL-TECH WONDERLAND
32:14 SonSon II
32:32 Space Harrier
32:58 Fantasy Zone
33:24 Fighting Street
18:23 TRAILERS
33:48 Game Boy Commercial
34:18 Famicom Jump Hero Retsuden
33:33 MEGA DRIVE FAN
34:38 Super League
37:31 BOKUTACHI GAME CENTER
37:37 Turbo OutRun
40:29 SCOOP!
40:35 EarthBound Beginnings
42:02 Outro
Recorded from a JVC Super VHS video deck and upscaled to 720p via Retrotink 5X. Note that this upload includes a couple of brief skips/gaps due to the age and condition of the video tape, which lost sync in two spots-nothing essential, though.
You may freely use portions of this video for your own work as needed! All I ask for my efforts in getting this material online is a small source credit in your video or footnotes.

[@japangamejunk]

I saw one of these tapes still sealed at BEEP in Akihabara for an ungodly price... Much too high to consider buying... Now thanks to you I know what it's like! Thank you so much!

[@rvfiasco]

I LOVE THESE. Thanks a million, Jeremy!

[@antiqqque]

boy howdy thanks a lot for uploading these. great listening practice for japanese learners

[@chazmaru9583]

37:35 Young Tajiri is so wholesome.

[@くぅちゃんねる-r9k]

SDガンダム好き過ぎて終わったら箱に閉まって(ソフトのビニールも)一緒に寝てた。

[@EdwardoFE]

The EB Beginnings video is interesting because Loid isn’t shown at all and Teddy is at a lower level than he starts at in the final game. Probably debugging shenanigans but it does make me wonder if the order of events in the game changed during development.

[@mjmobile]

It would be cool to upload these in their original 4:3 aspect ratio so they can be enjoyed on CRT TVs, as it was intended back in the day.

[@バイビばいび]

ナレーションは富山敬さんかな？

[@gunsoviva1633]

10:27 この『蒼き狼と白き牝鹿』の紹介とか銀英伝のヤン・ウェンリーが戦略語ってるみたいでおもしろい😂

[@braddye4983]

How many other English only speakers watching this enthralled because you love video games so much?

[@JeremyParish]

Hey boss, if you turn on captions and set the language to Auto-translate Japanese to English, you get a pretty decent running script for these things.

[@absolutezeronow7928]

PC Engine was definitely a shooter console, although it also had good CD games. Mother aka Earthbound Beginnings is a game I respect, the sequel is definitely better though. It is an important historical game though.

[@JoshRudis]

SD Gundam isn't _terrible_. At least it's trying something (even if a minor ripoff). Also, Love seeing a young Tajiri playing games in these features.

[@AndoloGame]

This is historic material.

[@kurehajime3763]

ポケモンの生みの親の田尻聡が急に出てきて驚いた

[@gunsoviva1633]

むしろ『ゲームフリークの田尻智』で通っていた人 「あのゲームフリークの人がポケモン作ったのか」って感じだったんだけどね

[@qwertzy121212]

is that Kei Tomiyama on the narration? does it say on the box for the tape anywhere? it REALLY sounds like him!

[@オシントテクニクス]

ナレーションはヤンウェンリーやってた富山さんか。スゲー聞きやすい

[@rabiroden]

Those River City Ransom players are so disrespectful, attacking the bosses before they're finished talking... :,(

[@mrdeatheli]

Let's go!!

[@AlyphRat]

How was Gameboy game footage recorded if there was no Super Gameboy (nor SNES) in 1989?

[@JeremyParish]

Intelligent Systems built a device (official Nintendo-authorized developer tool) called a Wide Boy that allowed devs and publications to record Game Boy footage from Famicom. It was basically a Super Game Boy for Famicom, available only to professionals.

[@doctorwolfman5221]

JP, what was the delivery point for these? Were they a mail-in or something?

[@JeremyParish]

Dunno, probably newsstands.

[@コロ助-j3b]

貴重！

[@Enecororo97]

Gashapon Senki isn't a bad game from what I've heard

[@JeremyParish]

Hey guys, we found the Bandai plant, over here

[@smudgetwo]

i wonder how they recorded gameboy for this, it looks like some kinda proto super gameboy with the border n everything

[@JeremyParish]

It looks like it was captured on the original Wide Boy model. Very similar to a Super Game Boy-it was a development and media capture tool that IS made several versions of (ranging from original GB on Famicom to GBC on N64). They're pretty cool!

[@ZAQ502]

これ読んだらゲームの攻略が掴むかも？🤔

[@瀬尾空也]

ファミマガビデオマガジン。