Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 8

PRIMARY SYSTEMS COVERAGE

• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Sega Master System
• Sega Genesis
• NEC TurboGrafx-16
• NEC PC-Engine Super Grafx (aka SuperGrafx)
• Atari Lynx

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TurboGrafx-16 vs. Genesis - EGM Sets The Record Straight And Answers The Question Of Which 16-Bitter Is Best...

(Cover story. Featured in contents section as 'Cover - The Genesis vs. Turbo Debate.' Three-page contrast & compare.)

Insert Coin - More Than Good Looks... by Steve Harris (editorial)

Interface: Letters To The Editor

Electronic Gaming Review Crew

• Double Dragon 2 (NES) (Double Dragon II: The Revenge)
• 720 Degrees (NES)
• 8-Eyes (NES)
• Boy and his Blob (NES)
• Roadblasters (NES)
• Golden Axe (SMS)
• Dynamite Dux (SMS)
• Space Harrier (TG16)
• Military Madness (TG16)
• Ordyne (TG16)
• Deep Blue (TG16)
• Truxton (Gen)
• Zoom (Gen)
• Revenge of Shinobi (Gen)
• Golden Axe (Gen)
• Castlevania (GB) (Castlevania: The Adventure)
• Shanghai (GB)

Gaming Gossip by Quartermann

GameBoy Club

(This issue's GameBoy Club doubles as a magazine-in-magazine - complete with cover - titled 'Portable Gaming Magazine.' Its promoted as a major feature in this issue's contents: 'Bonus Supplement In This Issue Of EGM!!! Pocket Pros - The Portable Gaming Mini-Mag.' Interestingly, the included strategy guide was originally set to conclude in the first newstand issue of Portable Gaming Magazine.)

• Now You Can Play Gameboy Games On TV... And In Color!!! (WideBoy 2 (GB-to-Famicom adapter) overview)
• Castlevania: The Adventure (fact file)
• Castlevania: The Adventure Quest One (two-page level 1 strategy guide)
• Gameboy capsule previews:

• Funny Field (released in NA as Dexterity)
• Battleship Game
• Monster Truck (Japan only release)
• Selection (released in NA as The Sword of Hope) 
• Mr. Asmik World (released in NA as Boomer's Adventure in Asmik World)
• Gradius
• World Class Bowling (released as World Bowling)
• Phallanx
• Qix
• Lock-n-Chase
• Bases Loaded
• CosmoTank
• Navy Blue (released as Navy Blue '90. Japan only release)
• Ghosts and Goblins (released in NA as Gargoyle's Quest)
• Popeye (Japan only release)
• Boxing (released in NA as Heavyweight Championship Boxing)

Atari Adventure

• Lynx Game Previews (article previewing Gauntlet and Rampage Deluxe)

International Outlook

PC Engine Super Grafx by Tony Takoushi

New NEC Game System Promises Better Graphics and Play!

(Two-page PC Engine Super Grafx (aka SuperGrafx) overview. Featured in contents section as 'Taking The Super Grafx For A Test Drive.')

Next Wave

(Preview section; featured in the contents section as 'The New Softs.')

• Astyanax (NES)
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (NES, released as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance)
• Arkista's Ring (NES)
• Chase HQ (NES, Japan only release)
• Bases Loaded 2: The Second Season (NES)
• Baseball Simulator 1.000 (NES)
• Mad Max (NES)
• Golgo 13, Part 2 (NES, released in NA as The Mafat Conspiracy )
• Rescue Rangers (NES)
• V'Ball (NES, released as Super Spike V'Ball)
• Ikari Warriors 3 (NES, released as Ikari III: The Rescue)
• Takin' it to the Hoop (TG16)
• It Came From the Desert (TG16CD)
• Neutopia (TG16)
• Air Diver (Gen)
• After Burner 2 (Gen)
• Atomic Robo-Kid (Gen)
• Curse (Gen)
• Phantasy Star 2 (Gen, Japan only release)

Tricks of the Trade

(Featured in the contents section.)

• Arnold Palmer Golf (Gen; here as Genesis Golf)
• Godzilla (NES)
• Military Madness (TG16)
• Pac-Land (TG16)
• Side Arms (TG16)
• Deep Blue (TG16)
• Space Harrier (TG16)
• Ordyne (TG16)
• R-Type (TG16)

Nintendo Player

• Double Dragon II (NES)
• Rolling Thunder (NES)

Sega Masters

• Ultima IV (SMS)

Turbo Champ

• Side Arms (TG16)
• J.J. & Jeff (TG16)
• Military Madness (TG16)

Outpost: Genesis

• Truxton (Gen)