Game On! Issue 5 (September 1996)

This was a short-lived magazine, meant to be the US extension of the popular Japanese magazine, Game On! The first issue introduces itself as Game On! USA, but it would only last 7 issues. Issue #5 has another big black & white segment from the Super Street Fighter II: Cammy manga, Fight Four. And we have another segment from the Samuria Shodown manga, Battle Five. This time we get a lot of coverage and interviews for Nintendo and the N64. we get another 4 reviews, but they keep using the Japanese name of some games like before, which gets very confusing since this is meant to be reviews of US games. Like "Legend of Thor" on the Saturn, which it calls the "best action-RPG so far in the 32-bit age," but that's NOT the right name. The game is called Legend of Oasis in the US, but it doesn't mention this fact. It does say that this game is a sequel to Legend of Oasis on the Genesis, but that's not right -- it was "Beyond Oasis" on Genesis. This might seem like a nitpick, but when a magazine keeps referring to the wrong name, that's when I stop picking it up. Its almost impossible to find out this stuff back in 1996.

The only reason I know some of this was because GameFan did a preview of a game called Story of Thor, but then they mentioned the US title at some point, so I always remembered that.