Edge Issue 1

Cover:

• The Changing Face of Video Games
• 3DO: How the dream machines shapes up in real life.

Insideview (Departments):

• Things to come
  What does the future of videogaming hold? Edge quizzes some people who may just know.
• News
  Up to the minute news reports, in depth, from across the entire world of videogaming.
• Release dates
  A complete catalogue of all the hot new games to be released over the coming six months.
• Charts
  The official multiformat ELSPA charts; and the very unofficial Edge lists.
• Prescreen
  Check in for 19 pages of sneakscans of the games that matter, including Jurassic Park.
• 3DO
  There's a new player in town. So what? Edge asks some very awkward questions...
• Surround sound
  In stereo your mind can wallow; with Surround sound it risks drowning. Take swimming lessons.
• Competition
  Win a 1,000 Toshiba Surround TV, a SNES and Jaleco's King Arthur's World. No messing.
• Making Microcosm
  Psygnosis' Microcosm is the first CD shoot 'em up: discover exactly how it was made (and why).
• Testscreen
  Edge rates the current batch of new releases including SFII Turbo and Silpheed.
• Letters
  Postcards to the Edge: directives, missives - and expletives most emphatically not deleted.
• What do you want?
  Talk back to us. Tell us what works and what misses and we'll take your advice to heart.
• Subscribe
  I's no good Edge being so great if you can't get a hold of it -- subscribe and save grief.
• Over the Edge
  Say goodbye to this issue and see what delights Edge 2 has in store for you next month.

Features:

• Techview: multimedia
  It is universally acknowledged that Trip Hawkins is a smart guy. So smart, in fact, that EA were years late getting into the console market and nearly went broke because their boss, one Trip Hawkins, dismissed consoles as a passing fad... And this is the guy who's selling 3DO? Edge asks: what the hell does Trip Hawkins think he's playing at?
• Techview: CD-ROM
  Following in the wake of The 7th Guest comes Microcosm - the first real CD-ROM shoot 'em up. The tech-specs read like science fiction: 44,000 frames of rendered 3D, a six-minute intro, over 478 megabytes of game... See how the men at Psygnosis squeezed an entire human body onto one small silver disc.
• Futureview
  What is the future of videogaming? What of CD-ROM, direct-cabling and virtual reality? Edge speaks to leading lights in industries of imagination: visions of the future, from the men who are busy shaping it.
• Prescreen
  Edge examines more than 20 of the better games you'll be playing over the coming months, including Inferno (left), Jurassic Park, Forgotten Castle and some ancient 8-bit game called Impossible Mission.
• Competition
  There's only one thing better than owning state of the art gamesplaying technology... and that's owning state of the art gamesplaying technology that didn't cost you a penny. There's a grand's worth of kit destined for one Edge reader. Do you feel lucky?
• Testscreen
  Skimming the cream from the top of the videogame milk, Edge rates 20 of the hottest new titles -- including the latest versions of Street Fighter II (right) on SNES and PC Engine, plus the new, long-awaited Mega CD title Silpheed.

Prescreen (Previews):

• Dungeon Master II
• Forgotten Castle
• Stonekeep
• Top Gear 2
• Impossible Mission
• Starlord
• F-14 Fleet Defencer
• Thunderhawk
• Inferon
• TFX
• Jurassic Park
• Rise Of The Robots
• Legend Of Dracula X
• Castlevania: Bloodlines
• Landstalker
• Mario and Wario
• Ys IV
• World Heroes
• Virtual Racing
• New Scene
  a look at the latest from Japan

Testscreen (Reviews):

• Street Fighter II Turbo
• SF II Championship Edition
• Mortal Kombat
• Gradius II
• Silpheed
• Inca
• Ecco
• Lands of Lore
• Sunset Riders
• Viewpoint
• Super Mario Collection
• Gunstar Heroes
• Pinball Dreams
• Super Family Tennis
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors
• Rainbow Islands
• Rocket Knight Adventures
• Yo! Joe!
• First Samurai