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Retro Pokémon Magazine Scans
Previews, reviews, strategy guides and posters from the Pokémania years, scanned page by page from British and Australian gaming magazines of 1999–2004.
Before the big gaming websites, Pokémon news arrived once a month in print. This is our archive of those pages: pick a scan below to read every page at full size, or filter by the kind of article you are after.
1999
Planet GB
2000
N64 Gamer
2001
GBX
2004
TGN · GBA World
Browse by magazine
| Magazine | Country | Issue | Scans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planet GB A UK magazine dedicated to Game Boy coverage |
UK | Issue 1 · Summer 1999 | Pokémon Are Coming! Pokémon Pinball Preview |
| N64 Gamer Its monthly POKédex section was all about Pokémon |
Australia | Vol. 28 · June 2000 | POKédex: Pokémon Index & News |
| GBX The magazine’s first ever issue |
UK | Issue 1 · July 2001 | Pokémon Gold & Silver Guide (Part 1) Lugia & Ho-Oh Fold-Out Poster |
| TGN Specials: Pokémon Colosseum A special series by TGN (Total Gamer Network) |
Australia | Issue 3 · 2004 | Pokémon Colosseum Review Pokémon Colosseum Complete Solution |
| GBA World | Australia | Issue 10 · Aug/Sept 2004 | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen Preview |
About the Retro Corner
Pokémon is not as old a series as say Mario, Zelda or even Sonic the Hedgehog. However, given that Pokémon has been around since 1996, there has been more than two decades’ worth of coverage of the Pokémon games, the anime and its movies, so it has a pretty rich history nonetheless; and to this day Pokémon is current, successful and some might even argue gaining greater popularity as a new generation of Pokémaniacs are recruited.
Sure, it’s not the late 90s heyday of Pokémania, that was something special and difficult to reproduce. Likewise the late 90s was a different time in the videogame industry. Every console and gaming company seemed to have their own magazine(s), and finding out about previews of upcoming Pokémon titles, or secrets from your favourite games, was a pretty magical thing for many. It was inevitable that with the rise of the internet and the professional gaming sites these magazines would eventually die out, as the vast majority have; after all, how is a magazine going to compete with the up-to-the-minute news coverage that these sites offer? Simple answer… it isn’t.
So here we are in a day of being pounded by up-to-the-minute information on our favourite videogames from big, well-known gaming sites, and whilst that’s far from a bad thing, it just doesn’t have the same feel as getting your info from one of those old gaming magazines. So I’ve set up this section to run a retro Pokémon magazine feature, adding retro articles about Pokémon from the 90s and early 2000s for your pleasure!
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It goes without saying that this section will only contain stuff that’s been out of print for a minimum of five years. This should hopefully avoid us stepping on anyone’s toes or causing any upset to the magazines and publishers of the past.