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Features:
- Cover Story: Ghouls 'n Ghosts (GEN)
- Behind the Screens Look at Gameboy (Industry professionals offer their opinions on Nintendo's handheld)
- International Outlook (A New Look at the PC Engine, Konix is delayed again, and here's the final [see notes below] version of the Super Famicom)
- P.O.W. - The War Rages On (Strategy guide for P.O.W. (NES))
- Insert Coin (You Asked For It, You Got It...More Sega!!!)
- Interface: Letters to the Editor
- Gaming Gossip (Quarterman whets your appetite for rumour)
- 32-Bit System Preview (The FM-Towns system...coming soon to your shores?)
- Enter and Win a GameBoy! (Contest)
- Top Scores Club (Send in a high score, win the accolades of your friends)
- Electronic Gaming Top 10 (NIntendo, Sega, Atari and Arcade games...what you should be spending your money on)
Review Crew (Steve Harris / Ed Semrad / Don Nauert / Jim Allee):
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) - 6/7/6/4
- Bad Dudes (NES) - 6/5/5/4
- Sky Shark (NES) - 6/6/5/5
- Defenders of the Crown (NES) - 4/3/7/7
- Strider (GEN) - 7/8/7/7
- Spell Caster (GEN) - 7/6/6/5
- Victory Run (GEN) - 6/8/7/8
- Dungeon Explorer (TG-16) - 7/7/7/7
- Last Battle (GEN) - 6/7/6/5
- Tommy Lasorda Baseball (GEN) - 8/8/7/7
- Thunder Force II (GEN) - 8/8/7/8
Next Wave (previews of upcoming software):
- Twin Eagle (NES)
- Willow (NES)
- Silkworm (NES)
- Ninja Gaiden II (NES)
- Captain Silver (SMS)
- Nightmare Basketball (SMS)
- Dynamite Dux (SMS)
- Rambo 3 (GEN)
- Forgotten Worlds (GEN)
- Super Hydlide (GEN)
Top Secret (cheats and tips):
- Hydlide (NES)
- Milon's Secret Castle (NES)
- Cyborg Hunter (SMS)
- Strider (NES)
- Tecmo Bowl (NES)
- Fist of the North Star (NES)
- Fantasy Zone (NES)
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
- Metal Gear (NES)
- Rambo (NES)
- Cobra Triangle (NES)
- Wonder Boy in Monster Land (SMS)
- Keith Courage in Alpha Zone (TG-16)
Nintendo Players:
- Tengen's Tetris pulled from store shelves
- No Super Famicom in '89
- Bad Dudes (NES)
- River City Ransom (NES)
- Twin Cobra (NES)
Sega Masters:
- Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord (SMS)
- Spell Caster (GEN)
- Ultima IV (SMS)
- Phantasy Star (SMS)
- Scramble Spirits (SMS)
- Dead Angle (SMS)
Atari Adventure:
- Xenophobe (7800/XE)
- Lynx: An Interview With the Men Behind the Machine
Turbo Champ:
- Massive TG-16 game preview
- Dungeon Explorer (TG16)
- Blazing Lasers (TG16)
Outpost: Genesis:
- The Power Base Converter Arrives!
- Thunder Force II (GEN)
Game Boy Club:
- Video Link Cable
- Alleyway (GB)
- Boxxle (GB)
Game Over (spoiling the game endings for...):
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
- Gyruss (NES)
- Guerrilla War (NES)
Notable Stuff:
- You can't play US TG-16 games on your Japanese PC Engine according to the letter column.
- Reviewer Steve Harris refers to Spell Caster as Sega's Simon's Quest and means that nicely.
- "...GameBoy could well be the Walkman of the 1990's..." says the pull quote from the Behind the Screens article.
- Fujitsu's awesome FM Towns PC/gaming console hybrid never makes it across the pond, which is a pity.
- That Super Famicom they claim is the final design? It's not (Nintendo changes the controller buttons and a couple other bells-and-whistles on the system before it goes into production).
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