ISSUE: 8Content
The Good, the Bad, and the Silly (EGM's annual gaming awards ceremony celebrating the best, worst, and dumbest):
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Game Most Bought By the EGM Staff: Mario Kart 64 (N64)
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Most Addictive Game: GoldenEye 007 (N64)
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Biggest Vaporware: M2 console
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Best Voice Acting: Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssee (PS1)
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Worst Voice Acting: Mega Man 8 (PS1)
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Best Middle: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
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Worst Makeover: Pandemonium (PS1)'s Nikki
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Back From the Dead: Game Boy Pocket
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Game That Should Have Stayed on the PC: Hexen (SAT/PS1/N64)
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Game That Should Have Stayed in the Arcades: War Gods (PS1/N64)
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Most Diarrhea in a Game: PaRappa the Rapper (PS1)
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Coolest PR Goodie: E3 Resident Evil Squishy Eye keychain
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EGM's Favorite Non Work-Related Activity: Decapitato frisbee game
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Worst Music: NASCAR 98 (PS1/SAT)
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Hottest Game Babe: Tifa Lockheart (PS1)
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Hottest Game Hunk: John Madden
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Most Overexposed: Lara Croft
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Best Movie to Game: GoldenEye 007 (N64)
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Worst Movie to Game: The Crow: City of Angels (PS1)
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Worst Use of a Good License: Fantastic Four (PS1)
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Worst Use of Adam West: Golden Nugget (PS1)
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Most Hype For a Game: Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
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Best Sequel: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
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Most Disappointing Sequel: FIFA 64 (N64)
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Biggest Reason for Missed Deadlines: GoldenEye 007 (N64)
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Best Use of Silicon: Lara Croft
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Best Cure for Insomnia: Tail of the Sun (PS1)
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Best Intro: Soul Blade (PS1)
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Worst Intro: The Crow: City of Angels (PS1)
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Best Ending: Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
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Game You Need a Ph.D. to Play: Carnage Heart (PS1)
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Best Use of Teats: Harvest Moon (SNES)
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Most Promising Game Company: Rare
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Best 180-degree Turnaround: Acclaim
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Best Print Ad: Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
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Worst Print Ad: Nanotek Warrior (PS1)
Which Game System Is Best? - The EGM staff pit the SNES, Genesis, PS1, Saturn, and N64 in a head-to-head-to-head-to-head-to-head against each other to crown a winner, then do the same for the Game Boy Pocket, Game.com, and Sega Nomad.
All About Miyamoto - An EGM biography on the world's most well-known game developer.
Controller Control - How do companies design those controllers, anyway?
EGM's Super Game Index - A list of every game, every review score, from the past eight years' worth of issues.
Stuff to Look For in 1998 (Previews of upcoming software):
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Bomberman 64 (N64)
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Duke Nukem 64 (N64)
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GoldenEye 007 (N64)
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International SuperStar Soccer 64 (N64)
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Madden 64 (N64)
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Star Fox 64 (N64)
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Bushido Blade (PS1)
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
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Colony Wars (PS1)
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Crash Bandicoot 2 (PS1)
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Dragon Ball GT (PS1)
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Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
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Mega Man Neo (PS1 / Released as Mega Man Legends)
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NFL GameDay '98 (PS1)
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (PS1)
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One (PS1)
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Pandemonium 2 (PS1)
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PaRappa the Rapper (PS1)
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Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
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Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha (PS1)
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Super Street Fighter 2 Collection (PS1)
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Wild Arms (PS1)
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Albert Odyssey (SAT)
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Fighters MegaMix (SAT)
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Last Bronx (SAT)
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Mega Man X4 (SAT)
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Quake (SAT)
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Saturn Bomberman (SAT)
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Shining the Holy Ark (SAT)
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Sonic Jam (SAT)
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Sonic R (SAT)
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Best Tricks of the Year (An entire year's worth of cheats condensed down to twenty pages):
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PlayStation:
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Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1
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Ball Blazers Champions
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Beyond the Beyond
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Blast Chamber
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Bogey: Dead 6
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Brahma Force
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Broken Helix
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Bubble Bobble
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Bubsy 3D
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Buster Brothers Collection
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Carnage Heard
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Codename: Tenka
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Command & Conquer
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Contra: Legacy of War
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Cool Boarders
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The Crow: City of Angels
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Crusader: No Remorse
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Darklight Conflict
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Descent
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Destruction Derby 2
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Die Hard Trilogy
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Disruptor
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Dynasty Warriors
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Excalibur 2555 A.D.
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Fade to Black
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Final Doom
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Gunship
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Herc's Adventures
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The Hive
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Independence Day
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Iron Man/X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal
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Jet Moto
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K1: The Arena Fighters
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Lemmings 3D
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Machine Head
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Machine Hunter
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Madden NFL '97
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MechWarrior 2
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Mortal Kombat Trilogy
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Motor Toon Grand Prix
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Namco Museum Vol. 1
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Namco Museum Vol. 2
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Namco Museum Vol. 4
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Nanotek Warrior
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NBA Hangtime
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NBA Jam Extreme
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NBA Live '97
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NCAA Football '98
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Need For Speed 2
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NFL GameDay '97
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NFL GameDay '98
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NFL Quarterback Club '97
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NHL '97
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NHL Faceoff '97
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Norse by Norsewest
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Ogre Battle
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Pandemonium!
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Peak Performance
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Perfect Weapon
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Pitball
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PlayStation Underground No. 1
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PlayStation Underground No. 2
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Power Move Wrestling
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Pro Pinball
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Project Overkill
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Puzzle Fighter 2
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Rage Racer
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Re-Loaded
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Robo Pit
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Robotron X
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SimCity 2000
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Skeleton Warriors
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Soul Blade
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Soviet Strike
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Space Jam
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Spider
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Star Gladiator
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Starblade Alpha
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Street Fighter Alpha 2
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Street Fighter EX+ Alpha (Japan)
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Street Racer (EGM91)
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Tempest X3
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Ten Pin Alley
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Test Drive: Off Road
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Thunder Truck Rally
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Tiger Shark
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Time Commando
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TNN Motor Sports Hardcore 4x4
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Tobal 2 (Japan)
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Tokyo Highway Battle
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Tomb Raider
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Triple Play '97
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Triple Play '98
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Twisted Metal 2
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War Gods
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Warcraft II: The Dark Saga
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WCW vs. The World
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Wild Arms
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Xevious 3D+G
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Saturn:
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AMOK
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Battle Arena Toshinden URA
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Battle Monsters
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Bug Too!
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Command & Conquer
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Crusader: No Remorse
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Daytona USA: CCE
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DecAthelete
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Die Hard Arcade
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Die Hard Trilogy
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Doom
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Fighter's MegaMix
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Fighting Vipers
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Grid Runner
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Guardian Heroes
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Gun Griffon
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Independence Day
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Loaded
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Magic Carpet
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Manx TT
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Marvel Super Heroes (Japan)
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Mortal Kombat Trilogy
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Mr. Bones
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Need For Speed
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NHL Powerplay '96
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NFL Quarterback Club '97
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Pandemonium!
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Scud: The Disposable Assassin
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Skeleton Warriors
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Soviet Strike
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Space Jam
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Street Fighter Alpha 2
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TNN Motor Sports Hardcore 4x4
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Tomb Raider
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True Pinball
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Virtua Fighter Kids
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Nintendo 64:
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Blast Corps
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Cruis'N USA
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Dark Rift
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Doom 64
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FIFA Soccer 64
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GoldenEye 007
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Hexen
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International Superstar Soccer
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Killer Instinct Gold
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Mario Kart 64
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Mortal Kombat Trilogy
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NBA Hangtime
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PilotWings 64
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Star Fox 64
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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
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Super Mario 64
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Tetrisphere
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Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
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War Gods
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Wave Race 64
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Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey
Ads (in order of appearance):
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Armored Core (PS1)
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Namco Games: Tekken 2 (PS1) / Soul Blade (PS1)
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Alps Interactive Gamepad controller (PS1)
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Samsung GXTV personal video game TV
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Electronic Gaming Monthly ad
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Mace: The Dark Age (N64/PC)
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Cool Boarders 2 (PS1)
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Dynasty Warriors (PS1)
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Maximum Force (PS1/SAT)
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One (PS1)
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Alundra (PS1)
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Vs. (SAT)
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert
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Dark Rift (N64)
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Courier Crisis (PS1/SAT)
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Mass Destruction (PS1/SAT/PC)
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WCW vs. nWo: World Tour (N64)
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Critical Depth (PS1)
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San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing (N64/PS1/PC)
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Win the Ultimate Gaming Rig contest
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Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine ad
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Electronic Gaming Monthly and EGM2 bonus magazines ad
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Colony Wars (PS1)
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Mad Catz Real Wheel controller (PS1/N64)
Notable Stuff:
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That's a lovely piece of Final Fantasy VII artwork on page 12.
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Of course Tifa won "Hottest Game Babe". Strangely enough, Lara Croft wasn't the runner-up on this one, but Laura Lewis from Enemy Zero on the Saturn was.
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Clearly nobody on staff was comfortable picking a hot dude for their 'best hunk' category, as their runner-up is Abe from Abe's Oddyssee. Umm...Duke Nukem, anybody?
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Anyone else find it ironic that the magazine which has had Lara Croft on their cover more times than anybody else is also throwing a "Most Overexposed" award
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No surprise, the PlayStation and Game Boy come out the clear winners in the battle royale, while the Sega Saturn and Genesis bring up the rear.
-
Both the Miyamoto biography and behind-the-scenes look at controller creation are fascinating pieces which remain relevant even today.
-
The super game list doesn't list everything the magazine ever reviewed. They omit plenty of software from the smaller systems like the CD-i and the Neo Geo, and ignore everything prior to the 16-bit generation, but still...this is one incredible index with some great artwork thrown in throughout, and some little side-bars about titles worth a second look, and miniature essays on subjects like why Link's Awakening is the best Zelda game. Really cool!
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Saturn Bomberman supports up to 10 players simultaneously.
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'Best Tricks of the Year' includes a massive sidebar detailing ten great internet sites to use for finding cheat codes. Needless to say, they're all defunct at this point. Man, remember Happy Puppy?
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People are still trying to find that Lara Croft nude code. EGM2 did it as an April Fools joke in issue 34.
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Somebody forgot to label the cheat codes for Command & Conquer and Crusader: No Remorse in the Saturn section. This makes it look like Bug Too! is an absolutely insane game.
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According to a sidebar, the Konami Code is the most-overused cheat code of all time.
The Good, the Bad, and the Silly (EGM's annual gaming awards ceremony celebrating the best, worst, and dumbest):
- Game Most Bought By the EGM Staff: Mario Kart 64 (N64)
- Most Addictive Game: GoldenEye 007 (N64)
- Biggest Vaporware: M2 console
- Best Voice Acting: Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssee (PS1)
- Worst Voice Acting: Mega Man 8 (PS1)
- Best Middle: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
- Worst Makeover: Pandemonium (PS1)'s Nikki
- Back From the Dead: Game Boy Pocket
- Game That Should Have Stayed on the PC: Hexen (SAT/PS1/N64)
- Game That Should Have Stayed in the Arcades: War Gods (PS1/N64)
- Most Diarrhea in a Game: PaRappa the Rapper (PS1)
- Coolest PR Goodie: E3 Resident Evil Squishy Eye keychain
- EGM's Favorite Non Work-Related Activity: Decapitato frisbee game
- Worst Music: NASCAR 98 (PS1/SAT)
- Hottest Game Babe: Tifa Lockheart (PS1)
- Hottest Game Hunk: John Madden
- Most Overexposed: Lara Croft
- Best Movie to Game: GoldenEye 007 (N64)
- Worst Movie to Game: The Crow: City of Angels (PS1)
- Worst Use of a Good License: Fantastic Four (PS1)
- Worst Use of Adam West: Golden Nugget (PS1)
- Most Hype For a Game: Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
- Best Sequel: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
- Most Disappointing Sequel: FIFA 64 (N64)
- Biggest Reason for Missed Deadlines: GoldenEye 007 (N64)
- Best Use of Silicon: Lara Croft
- Best Cure for Insomnia: Tail of the Sun (PS1)
- Best Intro: Soul Blade (PS1)
- Worst Intro: The Crow: City of Angels (PS1)
- Best Ending: Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
- Game You Need a Ph.D. to Play: Carnage Heart (PS1)
- Best Use of Teats: Harvest Moon (SNES)
- Most Promising Game Company: Rare
- Best 180-degree Turnaround: Acclaim
- Best Print Ad: Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
- Worst Print Ad: Nanotek Warrior (PS1)
Which Game System Is Best? - The EGM staff pit the SNES, Genesis, PS1, Saturn, and N64 in a head-to-head-to-head-to-head-to-head against each other to crown a winner, then do the same for the Game Boy Pocket, Game.com, and Sega Nomad.
All About Miyamoto - An EGM biography on the world's most well-known game developer.
Controller Control - How do companies design those controllers, anyway?
EGM's Super Game Index - A list of every game, every review score, from the past eight years' worth of issues.
Stuff to Look For in 1998 (Previews of upcoming software):
- Bomberman 64 (N64)
- Duke Nukem 64 (N64)
- GoldenEye 007 (N64)
- International SuperStar Soccer 64 (N64)
- Madden 64 (N64)
- Star Fox 64 (N64)
- Bushido Blade (PS1)
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
- Colony Wars (PS1)
- Crash Bandicoot 2 (PS1)
- Dragon Ball GT (PS1)
- Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
- Mega Man Neo (PS1 / Released as Mega Man Legends)
- NFL GameDay '98 (PS1)
- Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (PS1)
- One (PS1)
- Pandemonium 2 (PS1)
- PaRappa the Rapper (PS1)
- Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
- Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha (PS1)
- Super Street Fighter 2 Collection (PS1)
- Wild Arms (PS1)
- Albert Odyssey (SAT)
- Fighters MegaMix (SAT)
- Last Bronx (SAT)
- Mega Man X4 (SAT)
- Quake (SAT)
- Saturn Bomberman (SAT)
- Shining the Holy Ark (SAT)
- Sonic Jam (SAT)
- Sonic R (SAT)
Best Tricks of the Year (An entire year's worth of cheats condensed down to twenty pages):
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PlayStation:
- Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1
- Ball Blazers Champions
- Beyond the Beyond
- Blast Chamber
- Bogey: Dead 6
- Brahma Force
- Broken Helix
- Bubble Bobble
- Bubsy 3D
- Buster Brothers Collection
- Carnage Heard
- Codename: Tenka
- Command & Conquer
- Contra: Legacy of War
- Cool Boarders
- The Crow: City of Angels
- Crusader: No Remorse
- Darklight Conflict
- Descent
- Destruction Derby 2
- Die Hard Trilogy
- Disruptor
- Dynasty Warriors
- Excalibur 2555 A.D.
- Fade to Black
- Final Doom
- Gunship
- Herc's Adventures
- The Hive
- Independence Day
- Iron Man/X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal
- Jet Moto
- K1: The Arena Fighters
- Lemmings 3D
- Machine Head
- Machine Hunter
- Madden NFL '97
- MechWarrior 2
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- Motor Toon Grand Prix
- Namco Museum Vol. 1
- Namco Museum Vol. 2
- Namco Museum Vol. 4
- Nanotek Warrior
- NBA Hangtime
- NBA Jam Extreme
- NBA Live '97
- NCAA Football '98
- Need For Speed 2
- NFL GameDay '97
- NFL GameDay '98
- NFL Quarterback Club '97
- NHL '97
- NHL Faceoff '97
- Norse by Norsewest
- Ogre Battle
- Pandemonium!
- Peak Performance
- Perfect Weapon
- Pitball
- PlayStation Underground No. 1
- PlayStation Underground No. 2
- Power Move Wrestling
- Pro Pinball
- Project Overkill
- Puzzle Fighter 2
- Rage Racer
- Re-Loaded
- Robo Pit
- Robotron X
- SimCity 2000
- Skeleton Warriors
- Soul Blade
- Soviet Strike
- Space Jam
- Spider
- Star Gladiator
- Starblade Alpha
- Street Fighter Alpha 2
- Street Fighter EX+ Alpha (Japan)
- Street Racer (EGM91)
- Tempest X3
- Ten Pin Alley
- Test Drive: Off Road
- Thunder Truck Rally
- Tiger Shark
- Time Commando
- TNN Motor Sports Hardcore 4x4
- Tobal 2 (Japan)
- Tokyo Highway Battle
- Tomb Raider
- Triple Play '97
- Triple Play '98
- Twisted Metal 2
- War Gods
- Warcraft II: The Dark Saga
- WCW vs. The World
- Wild Arms
- Xevious 3D+G
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Saturn:
- AMOK
- Battle Arena Toshinden URA
- Battle Monsters
- Bug Too!
- Command & Conquer
- Crusader: No Remorse
- Daytona USA: CCE
- DecAthelete
- Die Hard Arcade
- Die Hard Trilogy
- Doom
- Fighter's MegaMix
- Fighting Vipers
- Grid Runner
- Guardian Heroes
- Gun Griffon
- Independence Day
- Loaded
- Magic Carpet
- Manx TT
- Marvel Super Heroes (Japan)
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- Mr. Bones
- Need For Speed
- NHL Powerplay '96
- NFL Quarterback Club '97
- Pandemonium!
- Scud: The Disposable Assassin
- Skeleton Warriors
- Soviet Strike
- Space Jam
- Street Fighter Alpha 2
- TNN Motor Sports Hardcore 4x4
- Tomb Raider
- True Pinball
- Virtua Fighter Kids
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Nintendo 64:
- Blast Corps
- Cruis'N USA
- Dark Rift
- Doom 64
- FIFA Soccer 64
- GoldenEye 007
- Hexen
- International Superstar Soccer
- Killer Instinct Gold
- Mario Kart 64
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- NBA Hangtime
- PilotWings 64
- Star Fox 64
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
- Super Mario 64
- Tetrisphere
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- War Gods
- Wave Race 64
- Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey
Ads (in order of appearance):
- Armored Core (PS1)
- Namco Games: Tekken 2 (PS1) / Soul Blade (PS1)
- Alps Interactive Gamepad controller (PS1)
- Samsung GXTV personal video game TV
- Electronic Gaming Monthly ad
- Mace: The Dark Age (N64/PC)
- Cool Boarders 2 (PS1)
- Dynasty Warriors (PS1)
- Maximum Force (PS1/SAT)
- One (PS1)
- Alundra (PS1)
- Vs. (SAT)
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- Dark Rift (N64)
- Courier Crisis (PS1/SAT)
- Mass Destruction (PS1/SAT/PC)
- WCW vs. nWo: World Tour (N64)
- Critical Depth (PS1)
- San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing (N64/PS1/PC)
- Win the Ultimate Gaming Rig contest
- Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine ad
- Electronic Gaming Monthly and EGM2 bonus magazines ad
- Colony Wars (PS1)
- Mad Catz Real Wheel controller (PS1/N64)
Notable Stuff:
- That's a lovely piece of Final Fantasy VII artwork on page 12.
- Of course Tifa won "Hottest Game Babe". Strangely enough, Lara Croft wasn't the runner-up on this one, but Laura Lewis from Enemy Zero on the Saturn was.
- Clearly nobody on staff was comfortable picking a hot dude for their 'best hunk' category, as their runner-up is Abe from Abe's Oddyssee. Umm...Duke Nukem, anybody?
- Anyone else find it ironic that the magazine which has had Lara Croft on their cover more times than anybody else is also throwing a "Most Overexposed" award
- No surprise, the PlayStation and Game Boy come out the clear winners in the battle royale, while the Sega Saturn and Genesis bring up the rear.
- Both the Miyamoto biography and behind-the-scenes look at controller creation are fascinating pieces which remain relevant even today.
- The super game list doesn't list everything the magazine ever reviewed. They omit plenty of software from the smaller systems like the CD-i and the Neo Geo, and ignore everything prior to the 16-bit generation, but still...this is one incredible index with some great artwork thrown in throughout, and some little side-bars about titles worth a second look, and miniature essays on subjects like why Link's Awakening is the best Zelda game. Really cool!
- Saturn Bomberman supports up to 10 players simultaneously.
- 'Best Tricks of the Year' includes a massive sidebar detailing ten great internet sites to use for finding cheat codes. Needless to say, they're all defunct at this point. Man, remember Happy Puppy?
- People are still trying to find that Lara Croft nude code. EGM2 did it as an April Fools joke in issue 34.
- Somebody forgot to label the cheat codes for Command & Conquer and Crusader: No Remorse in the Saturn section. This makes it look like Bug Too! is an absolutely insane game.
- According to a sidebar, the Konami Code is the most-overused cheat code of all time.
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