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Weekly Famitsu is considered the most respected video game news magazine in Japan.•• • Weekly Famitsu concentrates on video game reviews, as well as video game industry news. The magazine was originally called . Family Computer is the name of Nintendo's eight-bit video game console in Japan (the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the Europe, the U.S. and most other western countries), and tsūshin is the Japanese word for "news". The first issue was published in 1986 (Today, Famitsu Cube and Advance concentrates on Nintendo games). Weekly Famitsu is sold every Friday with a circulation of 800,000 per issue. Others Famitsu publishes other magazines dedicated to particular consoles - Famitsu PS reports on PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable news. Famitsu DS, Cube and Advance reports on Nintendo DS, GameCube and Game Boy Advance News while Famitsu Xbox, the least popular, reports on Xbox 360 and Xbox news. Famitsu Wave DVD (ファミ通 Wave DVD) is published monthly. Each magazine includes a DVD disc (NTSC Region 2) with video game footage. The magazine was originally called GameWave DVD. At the debut of the PlayStation, PlayStation Tsushin was published, but later the magazine changed its name to Famitsu PS. Scoring Famitsu is known worldwide for its extremely harsh grading of current videogames.•• Video games are graded in Famitsu by a panel of four video game reviewers. Each reviewer gives a score from one to ten (ten being best). The scores of the four reviewers are then added up with a possible score of forty. Famitsu reviewers have long been considered unmercifully tough, though in recent years their average review scores have generally taken an upswing. Several recent Famitsu scores have been subject to controversy, and the magazine has been accused of "selling out" to appease advertisers and the larger entities in the industry, such as with its score for Dirge of Cerberus (1up.com news link). However, it is still extremely difficult for a game to receive a perfect score of forty from Famitsu's reviewers. Famitsu Wave DVD does not grade video games. Perfect scores Only six games so far have received perfect scores. They are listed in chronological order: Games that received a near-perfect score of 39 include: All Time Top 100 by the readers In March of 2006 Japanese Famitsu magazine readers voted on their 100 all-time favorite games. (Full list). The top ten games picked by fans were: See also | ||||||||||
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