Anyone remember the Electric Brain Fanzine- now with pics

[lkermel]

Side note to lkermel - I still enjoy your site a lot!  I think your link to Adventure Island (Hu) may be broken? I noticed it didn't work for me the other day. (firefox)

Thanks a lot
This is odd... I just tried Adventure Island and it worked fine... maybe it was just a glitch... lemme know if it is still missing on your side...

[m1savage]

Checked it again just now and what it is doing for me is make the menu disappear on the current page. If I right click and open in new window then I get the menu but nothing in the right hand frame. I'm sure someone else here will happen upon this thread and will test it too. Could just be my settings or something but all the other links seem to work ok.

[Necromancer]

The link to Adventure Island works for me in Firefox 3.0.8.

[JAPJAC]

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[esteban]

Just nudged an old friend I grew up with about this, he lives in Tokyo now but was the only other person I knew of that subscribed. His memory is a lot better than mine too...

"Blimey, that is a blast from the past! Thank you for the reminder, it made me tingle with wonderful memories.

I remember the fanzine clearly. As for the title, I`m sure you are right as I remember it standing for `PCengine People`. I remember issue 0 was A4 in size and of a very high quality all things considered. Someone clearly had access to Daddy`s Apple Mac. Content was PCE game reviews and features on Japanese culture etc. I remember it coming from the South (Devon/Somerset?) also which was somewhat refreshing as most known hardcore PCE fans were always Northern for some reason.

Prior to receiving issue 1 a proper, the readership was asked to complete a questionnaire. I really took my time over it and tried to convey that there was another one out there that knew as much as they did. It backfired as you remember.

The reason they gave for it stopping (before it really started) was not because of lack of interest but lack of like-minded subscribers, they were somehow offended by the opinions within the returned questionnaires. For example, their reaction to the question `What do you value most?` Most kids of course put `My boxed RGB white PC Engine` or `My PC Engine games` etc. They responded on the lines of `How about your family or you eyesight dude?` Another example; What is your favourite PC Engine game?` `Dracula X, Super Star Parody, Don Doko Don, Gomola Speed etc` `How about Bomberman `94 or Word Court Tennis? The PC Engine is about playing games up to 5-players and getting cained dude.`"

Interesting stuff

Awesome. Thanks for taking the time to do this, and thank your friend for sharing with us. I love stuff like this.

I wrote that. 

He didn`t thank me but I am glad you liked it esteban (at least you have good manors).

Since writing the above I have since remembered that issue 1 was supposed to come with a free PC Engine game!  The fanzine was sponsored by Dream Machines 2/Dreamware so hence this is why it seemed quite possible at the time.  Looking back it was probably more bollox (or loose copies of bin fodder  like Tales of the Monster Path etc). 

The best people to ask about this fanzine then that I know of would be videogameimports aka Dream Machines 2, Dreamware etc.  I doubt that LMS would want to as I think they swindled him regarding some PCE stuff a long time ago (15 years?) if memory serves me.

That is all I can muster I`m afraid.

Cheers. 

Hey, thanks for stopping by and posting the additional info!

Anyway, this may be a longshot, but are you the same JAPJAC who wrote a positive review of Gomola Speed a few years ago? I ask because I've been working on Gomola Speed -related stuff recently.
 

[JAPJAC]

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[LMS]

He didn`t thank me but I am glad you liked it esteban (at least you have good manors).

My bad, sorry mate  :oops:

[JAPJAC]

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