Super Famicom Advertising Unearthed Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Update ID

We've been on the hunt for Japanese advertising relating to ASCII's 1993 push for Wing Commander SFC for several years and now preservation-minded gamers have begun providing the Internet Archive with vintage scans of Famitsu, Japan's Super Famicom publication of record. This has allowed for the discovery of not one but two print ads for the game! The first, from issue 241 (July 30, 1993) includes the game's stunning cover painting and stats for the four human fighters:

The second comes from the following issue (242, August 6 1993) and seems to include a sort of flow chart showing how a mission works:

Issue 239 (July 16, 1993) includes an article covering the game:


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