GamePro Archives 3: Major Mike in Virtua Fighting

Major Mike thrashes Virtua Fighter 3tb, then successfully defends his thrashing. 

I love this image--especially since I'm not such a fan of Virtua Fighter to begin with.  This GamePro illustration was derived from a letter where a Producer from Sega of America writes to Major Mike, expressing his disappointment in a poor review.  The game in question was Virtua Fighter 3tb, and Major Mike defends his lukewarm rating (3.5 out of 5.0 Fun Factor) by pointing out that this was a game that appeals strictly to fans of the series, and few else.

*Just in case of any copyright or any racial issues, I decided to change Jeffrey's hair and skin colors so no one is offended by a Major Mike backfisting him.

GamePro Archives 2: Scary Larry

The language of the original accompanying letter was no doubt rated "M" for "Mature."

Yet another editorial illustration from Francis Mao.  Someone sent in a letter full of expletives, so GamePro took the liberty of censoring the letter and providing four different lists of words to replace the expletives with: rated "E" for "Everyone", "T" for "Teen", "M" for "Mature" and "AO" for "Adults Only."  Needless to say, it did not win "Letter of the Month"... but it did provide a pretty hilarious page 22. 

GamePro Archives 1: Sub-Zero Cinema

No cinematics for the N64 Version?!

A replica of an old editorial illustration from GamePro magazine.  I recently found out that the magazine officially went out-of-print as of this December, and the website followed shortly after, so this is my tribute to all the great times I had reading it over the years. 

What do you think?  Does this drawing get a 5.0 Fun Factor rating? :)