Total Control was a fairly short-lived multi-format magazine from Rapide Publishing that I was a reader of back in the late 90s. Unlike today, back then there were a whole host of multi-format mags to choose from in the newsagents and I spent a hell of a lot of money on games magazines simply because browsing the internet for news, reviews and pokes just wasn't an option. I do recall having the internet at home, but it was slow as hell, dial-up and my mum used to go mental at me and my brother if we used it without her express permission (which we never got), because any time we spent online got added to the phone bill. We actually tried to hide the modem under the couch one time so the old battle-axe wouldn't hear it dialling the number for Virgin Net...but she always heard it and came thundering down the stairs like that maid in the Tom & Jerry cartoons. Funnily enough, screaming "Thomas!" while she did so, ash cascading from the Silk Cut king size clutched between her talons. Ah...those were the days.
Anyhow, Total Control was one of the better periodicals from that era and along with Arcade, Games Master, CVG, N64 Magazine and Sega Power, was one of many I purchased on a fairly regular basis. The first issue (November 1998) - and the only issue I currently have in my possession after 99.9% of my other 600 or so magazines were burnt by my dad some time in 2007 - is also quite interesting because it has a feature on the (then) upcoming launch of the Japanese Dreamcast. And here, I have painstakingly scanned and reproduced the feature for your reading pleasure. And when I say painstakingly - I mean I dug out the cable for the scanner and hooked it up to my Macbook. The things I do for you lot. Tsk...
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