Here is an archive of information on Sega-specific magazines published through the years. Where possible, I've provided scans of the full issues. These scans are in PDF format and some of them are very large (ranging from 20MBs to 100+MBs). I advise you to right-click them and save them to your hard drive so your PDF viewer or browser doesn't crash due to the size.
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Mean Machines Sega
A monthly UK magazine from publisher EMAP. It was eventually incorporated into Sega Saturn Magazine along with Sega Magazine in 1995.
Mega
A "100% pure Mega Drive" magazine published in the UK from 1992 until 1995.
Mega Drive Advanced Gaming
A Mega Drive-specific UK magazine that launched in late 1992.
Mega Play
A sporadically published US magazine from Sendai Publishing, the company behind EGM. Mega Play was a magazine of comparable quality. It ran from November 1990 until the summer of 1995, just after the Saturn launched in North America.
Issue #01 (Nov/Dec 1990) - Phantasy Star 3
Issue #02 (Jan/Feb 1991) - Batman
Issue #03 (Mar/Apr 1991) - Spider-Man
Issue #04 (May/Jun 1991) - Fantasia
Issue #05 (Jul/Aug 1991) - Streets of Rage
Issue #06 (Sep/Oct 1991) - Mercs
Issue #07 (Nov/Dec 1991) - Golden Axe 2
Issue #08 (Jan/Feb 1992) - Sega CD
Issue #09 (Mar/Apr 1992) - The Terminator
Issue #10 (May/Jun 1992) - Bulls VS Lakers
Issue #11 (Jul/Aug 1992) - Sonic 2
Issue #12 (Sep/Oct 1992) - TMNT, Batman Returns, Sonic 2
Issue #13 (Nov/Dec 1992) - Streets of Rage 2
Issue #14 (Jan/Feb 1993) - T2 The Arcade Game
Issue #15 (Mar/Apr 1993) - Rolling Thunder 3
Issue #16 (May/Jun 1993) - Street Fighter 2 CE
Issue #17 (Jul/Aug 1993) - Strider Returns
Issue #18 (Sep/Nov 1993) - Robocop VS Terminator
Issue #19 (Dec 1993) - ?
Issue #20 (Feb 1994) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Issue #21 (Apr 1994) - Mortal Kombat
Issue #22 (Jul 1994) - Streets of Rage 3
Issue #23 (Aug 1994) - Samurai Shodown
Issue #24 (Oct 1995) - The Lion King
Issue #25 (Jan/Feb 1995) - Star Trek Deep Space 9
Issue #26 (Feb/Mar 1995) - X-Men 2
Issue #27 (Apr/May 1995) - Knuckles Chaotix
Issue #28 (Jun/July 1995) - Judge Dredd
Official Dreamcast Magazine
S: The Sega Magazine
This is actually part of a line of UK magazines that started with S: The Sega Magazine in 1989. Later, after 20 issues, it relaunched as Sega Power. It lasted for 91 issues before once again relaunching as Saturn Power. Unfortunately, the magazine line ended 10 issues later in 1998.
Saturn Power
This is actually part of a line of UK magazines that started with S: The Sega Magazine in 1989. Later, after 20 issues, it relaunched as Sega Power. It lasted for 91 issues before once again relaunching as Saturn Power. Unfortunately, the magazine line ended 10 issues later in 1998.
Sega Force
Sega Magazine
A monthly UK magazine from publisher EMAP that began in January 1994. With the November 1995 issue, the magazine was relaunched as Sega Saturn Magazine.
Sega Power
This is actually part of a line of UK magazines that started with S: The Sega Magazine in 1989. Later, after 20 issues, it relaunched as Sega Power. It lasted for 91 issues before once again relaunching as Saturn Power. Unfortunately, the magazine line ended 10 issues later in 1998.
Sega Saturn Magazine
Sega Visions
Sega Visions is the magazine published by Sega of America from June 1990 to September 1995. It started up after SoA abandoned the Team Sega Newsletter in late 1989. It ran for 25 total issues, publishing mostly on a quarterly schedule. In late 1992, Sega changed it's publishing partner to Infotainment World (IDG) from The Communique Group, which lead to the number of pages expanding greatly and modernizing the look of the magazine.
Issue #01 (June/July 1990) - Sega for the 90's
Issue #02 (Oct/Nov 1990) - Strider is Awesome!
Issue #03 (Winter 1990/1991) - Joe Montana Scores the Big One for Sega!
Issue #04 (April/May 1991) - Game Gear is Here!
Issue #05 (Summer 1991) - "Just and catch me..." Sonic the Hedgehog
Issue #06 (Fall 1991) - Toe Jam & Earl hit the streets...
Issue #07 (Winter 1991/1992) - Sonic Boom Hits Game Gear!
Issue #08 (May/June 1992) - Meet Kid Chameleon!
Issue #09 (Aug/Sep 1992) - A Sneak Peek at Sonic 2
Issue #10 (Nov/Dec 1992) - Sonic 2
Issue #11 (Feb/March 1993) - Sega CD
Issue #12 (Apr/May 1993) - Street Fighter II Champion Edition
Issue #13 (Jun/July 1993) - Jurassic Park
Issue #14 (Aug/Sep 1993) - Sega Sports!
Issue #15 (Oct/Nov 1993) - Sonic Spinball
Issue #16 (Dec/Jan 1993-1994) - Eternal Champions!
Issue #17 (Feb/Mar 1994) - Sonic 3
Issue #18 (Apr/May 1994) - 32-Bit Gameplay on the Sega Genesis
Issue #19 (Jun/July 1994) - The Sega Channel is Here!
Issue #20 (Aug/Sep 1994) - Hot 32-Bit Arcade Action Just Hit Home
Issue #21 (Oct/Nov 1994) - Doom 32X
Issue #22 (Dec/Jan 1994-1995) - Sonic & Knuckles
Issue #23 (Feb/Mar 1995) - Penn & Teller / Eternal Champions CD
Issue #24 (May 1995) - Sega Saturn : It's Out There!
Issue #25 (Sep 1995) - Virtua Fighter Kicks on the 32X!
Sega Zone
A Fortune Publishing UK magazine that began in November 1992 and ended shortly after having it's title sold to Maverick Magazines in 1994.
Team Sega Newsletter / Sega Challenge
This small and simple magazine from Sega of America came and went. After issue #7, SoA killed it off. A half of a year later, SoA began published Sega Visions in it's place.
Issue #01 (?) - ?
Issue #02 (Spring 1988) - After Burner
Issue #03 (Summer 1988) - Shinobi
Issue #04 (Fall 1988) - Thunder Blade / Phantasy Star
Issue #05 (January 1989) - Reggie Jackson Baseball / R-Type
Issue #06 (April 1989) - Altered Beast / Rastan
Issue #07 (December 1989) - Alex Kidd: High Tech World
Contributors/Sources: Many of these scans were taken from the RetroMags project. As permitted via their website, I am providing their scans 100% in tact along with their 1 page ad at the end of the files. I have taken their JPG scans and converted them to PDF for easy downloading.
Team Sega Newsletter issue 2 was obtained via a torrent on Underground-Gamer.com. It contains a one page ad at the end for the scanner. Issues 4, 5, and 6 were donated by SegaFans member BaronSFel001.
