Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 4

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).