Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 9

PRIMARY SYSTEMS COVERAGE

• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Sega Master System
• Sega Genesis
• Sega Game Gear (prototype coverage)
• NEC TurboGrafx-16
• NEC TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM Player
• NEC TurboExpress (prototype coverage)
• SNK Neo Geo (overseas coverage)
• Atari Lynx

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Insert Coin - The First Word On Video Games... by Steve Harris (editorial)

Interface: Letters To The Editor

Electronic Gaming Review Crew

• Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
• Batman (NES)
• Bases Loaded 2 (NES)
• Adventures of Lolo 2 (NES)
• Baseball Simulator (NES) (Baseball Simulator 1.000)
• Astyanax (NES)
• Phantom Fighter (NES)
• XEXYZ (NES)
• WCW Wrestling (NES)
• Shinobi (NES)
• Wrath of Black Manta (NES) (Wrath of the Black Manta)
• Ultima 4 (SMS) (Ultima IV)
• Mystic Defender (Gen)
• Phantasy Star 2 (Gen)
• Final Lap Twin (TG16)
• Cratermaze (TG16)
• Bonk's Adventure (TG16)
• Boxxle (GB)
• Golf (GB)
• Hyper Lode Runner (GB)
• Kwirk (GB)
• Blue Lightning (Lynx)
• Chip's Challenge (Lynx)

International Outlook

'Simon Belmont Returns To Battle In Castlevania 3' by Steve Harris and Martin Alessi

(Cover story. Two-page Castlevania III (NES) overview. Featured in contents section as 'Cover Story - Castlevania 3')

Gaming Gossip by Quartermann

Electronic Gaming Express

(Featured in contents section.)

• First Looks at New Hand-Held and Portable Machines for Nintendo, Sega, and NEC Systems.

BDL's Nintendo Express
(portableNES, never to be released)

NEC's Portable TurboGrafx-16
(eventually released as TurboExpress)

Sega's Master System Portable
(eventually released as Game Gear)

• New SNK 16-Bit Game System Brings Real Arcade Games Home In Japan! (Neo Geo AVS)

Tricks of the Trade

(Featured in the contents section)

• Super C (NES)
• Castlevania (GB) (Castlevania: The Adventure, here as Gameboy Castlevania)
• Bases Loaded (NES)
• Ghouls and Ghost (Gen) (Ghouls n Ghosts)
• Tetris (Tengen, Nintendo?)
• Wonder Boy 3 (SMS?)
• The Black Bass (NES?)
• Forgotten Worlds (Gen)
• Revenge of Shinobi (Gen)
• Ghouls an Ghosts (Gen) (Ghouls n Ghosts)
• Zanac (NES)
• Kings of the Beach (NES)
• Othello (NES)
• Knight Rider (NES)
• Blue Lightning (Lynx)
• Fighting Street (TG16CD)
• 8-Eyes (NES)
• Blazing Lazers (TG16)
• Baseball Stars (NES)

Electronic Gaming Preview

(Featured in the contents section as 'Bonus Supplement In This Issue Of EGM!!! Electronic Gaming Preview - The Ultimate Video Game Preview Guide,' this guide essentially encompasses all of the game-specific sections (Nintendo Player, Sega Masters, etc) with lots of short game previews, along with intro CES article.)

• Behind The Scenes At CES
• Nintendo Player (all NES)

 

Top Gun 2

Low 'G' Man

Heavy Barrel

AD&D - Heroes of the Lance

Mission: Impossible

Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash

Super C

Star Tropics

Wurm

Code Name: Viper

Hatris

Pipe Dream

Wizardry (released as Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord)

Time Lord

Abodox

Rally Bike

Bigfoot

Lolo 2

Cosmic Epsilon (Japan only release)

Snoopy's Sports (released as Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular!)

Jack & Beanstalk (Japan only release as Jumpin' Kid: Jack to Mame no Ki Monogatari)

Image Fight

Kickle Cubicle

Conflict

Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge (released as Snake's Revenge)

Pinbot

Captain Skyhawk

Ninja Gaiden 2

Battle Chess

Nightmare Elm St.

Dynowarz

Spot

Final Fantasy

Solstice

Alien Asylum (released as Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum)

Rescue Rangers

Magic Kingdom

Rad Racer 2

Gilligan's Island

Off Road

World Wrestling

X-Men

Cabal

Circus Caper

Web World (never released)

Al Unser Racing

Top Player Tennis

Built to Win

Wall Street Kid

Silver Surfer

Back to Future 2

Bad News Baseball

Puss 'N Boots

The Punisher

Isolated Warrior

Castle of Demons (released as Castle of Dragon)

Rocket Ranger

License to Kill (never released)

Xybots (never released)

Police Academy (never released)

Pictionary

The Mafat Conspiracy

 

• Turbo Champ

 

Paranoia (released in NA as Psychosis)

Atomic Robo-Kid (Japan only release)

TV Sport Football

Double Dungeon

Bloody Wolf

Red Alert (released in as Last Alert)

Xybots

RBI 2

 

• Outpost: Genesis

 

Hard Drivin'

Xybots (never reelased)

Thunder Force 3

Super Real Basketball

Super Monaco GP

Moon Walker

Ghostbusters

Cyberball

E-Swat

Hard Yardage (never released)

Herzog Zwei

Atomic Robo-Kid

Tongue of the Fatman (released in NA as Slaughter Sport)

Insector X

Target: Earth

Kageki

Shove It!

Spiderman

 

• Sega Masters

 

Slap Shoot

Nightmare Basketball (Canada/Europe/South America only release)

Tennis Ace (Europe/South America only release)

Psycho Fox

Assault City (Europe/South America only release)

R.C. Grand Prix

Golf-A-Mania

 

Top Score Club

(listed in contents as High Score Club)