Game Informer Issue 4

PRIMARY SYSTEMS COVERAGE

• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Sega Genesis
• Sega Game Gear
• Sega Mega-CD (the eventual Sega-CD)

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Dear Game Informer (letters column)

Letter From The Editor

Camerica's Quattro Carts: Four Times The Fun!

(one-page Quattro Sports and Quattro Adventures preview)

This Issue's Reviews... The Bottom Line

(one-page summary of this issue's review scores)

Reviews (unless noted, two-page reviews featuring a game overview, three capsule reviews from GI staff, boxart and screenshots)

• Rampart (NES)
• Wacky Races (NES)
• Ultimate Stuntman (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
• Super Adventure Island (SNES)
• Wanderers of Ys III (SNES)
• Earth Defense Force (SNES)
• Kid Chameleon (Gen)
• Rolling Thunder 2 (Gen)
• Pilot Wings (SNES; one-page guest review by Funco corporate pilot Mark Gallagher)
• OutRun (Gen)
• Q*bert (GB)
  Spring Golf Review Section
• PGA Tour Golf (Gen/SNES)
• Super Golf (GG)
• True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club (SNES)
• Golf Grand Slam (NES)

Fun Club Tip Line (reader submitted tips and tricks)

• Astynax (NES)
• Batman II: Return of the Joker (NES) (Batman: Return of the Joker)
• Bubble Bobble (NES)
• Snake's Revenge (NES)
• Tiny Toon Adventures (NES)
• Willow (NES)
• Metal Gear (NES)
• F-Zero (SNES)
• Super Ghouls & Ghosts (SNES) (Ghouls 'n Ghosts)
• Darius Twin (SNES)
• Earth Defense Force (SNES)
• Joe & Mac (SNES)
• Nemesis (GB)
• Final Fantasy Legend II (GB)
• Super Marioland (GB) (Super Mario Land)
• Ghouls & Ghosts (Gen) (Ghouls 'n Ghosts)
• Pit Fighter (Gen)
• Tommy Lasorda Baseball (Gen)
• Joe Montana Sports Talk Football (Gen)
• John Madden '92 (Gen)
• Spiderman (Gen) (Spider-Man)
• Turrican (Gen)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Gen)

Tech Talk: The Latest on Video Game Hardware & Software

• New CD ROM Machine Looms on the Horizon (PC-Engine DUO (the eventual TurboDuo))
• New Titles Being Developed for Turbo Technologies' New CD ROM Machine
• Throw Those Old Batteries Away! (Naki Power Pak for Game Boy)

Bartmania: Cowabunga, Dude! Catch the Simpson Craze

(overview of Simpsons games and mock Bart Simpson interview)

What's Hot! Rumors & News From the Video Game World

• It's Sega Vs. Accolade, Round 2
• Where is Carmen Sandiego? The Big Screen, of Course!
• Nintendo is, Once Again, Hauled into Court
• The Gulf War, Coming Soon to a Video System Near You

The Game Handler: Get A Grip!

(overview and reviews of IMN Control's 'Game Handler' controller)

The History of The CD-ROM

(two-page article discussing CD-ROM tech, both 'current' (PC, Commodore CDTV, Philips CD-I, TurboGrafx-16 CD Player), and 'future' ('Sony Play Action Station CD-based system', TurboDuo, Sega Mega CD, Philips Super NES CD-ROM add-on)

Sega Mega-CD: The Wave of The Future?

(1.5 pages; hardware overview, with previews of Earnest Evans, Sol-Feace, and Funky Horror Band)

Ads (in order of appearance):

• Xardion (SNES)
• FaceBall 2000 (GB)
• Tengen Genesis titles (Paperboy / Pit Fighter / R.B.I. Baseball 3 / Dragon's Fury)
• Funco order form
• Game Informer subscription ad
• 1992 Consumer Electronics Show
• The Game Handler controller
• Ghoul School (NES)
• Eliminator Boat Duel (NES)
• Natsume games (Spanky's Quest (SNES/GB) / S.C.A.T. (NES)
• Shatterhand (NES)
• Rampart (NES)