Game Players Volume 1 Number 3

Primary Systems Coverage

• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Nintendo Gameboy
• Sega Master System
• Sega Genesis
• Atari Lynx
• IBM PC
• Amiga
• Commodore 64
• NEC TurboGrafx-16
• Macintosh

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(Table of Content (TOC) and headline excerpts follow.  Bullet lists and (notes) added for clarity.)

The Editors View (1 page; editorial by Tom Halfhill; the Summer CES)

The Tip Sheet (2 pages; letters column focusing on reader tip requests and submissions; discussed, none shown:)

• Gradius (NES)
• Milon's Secret Castle (NES)
• Bubble Bobble (NES)
• Golgo 13 (NES)
• Deadly Towers (NES)
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (Famicom; tip being, Famicom games won't work on NES)
• R-Type (SMS)
• Double Dragon (SMS)
• Alex Kidd in Miracle World (SMS)

Player's World

• NEC's TurboGrafx-16 Advanced Game System Challenges Nintendo (3 pages; shown: hardware & accessories, Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, Victory Run, Vigilante; includes sections:)
  • Optional Accessories
  • Technical Details
• Award-Winning Computer Games (1 page; shown: Tetris, Battle Chess, King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, F-19 Stealth Fighter)
• Face-To-Face... With Wil Wheaton (1 page; celebrity interview)

Nintendo News - Hot This Fall: Portable Game Boy, New NES Games (4 pages; Gameboy hardware shown; games shown:)

• Super Mario Land (GB)
• Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II (NES)
• Cybernoid (NES)
• Bigfoot (NES)
• Knightrider (NES) (Knight Rider)
• Road Blasters (NES)
• 720 (NES)
• Infiltrator (NES)
• The Last Starfighter (NES)
• DuckTales (NES)
• Sky Shark (NES)
• Demon Sword (NES)
• Bashi Bazook: Morphoid Masher (NES)

Arcade Action - Hard Drivin': The World's Best Driving Game? (2 pages; Hard Drivin' shown)

PC Players - Role-Playing Made Easier (4 pages; games shown; includes sections:)

• Times of Lore
• Prophecy

Sega Masters - Genesis: A New Beginning For Sega? (3 pages; Sega Genesis hardware shown; includes sections:)

• Unaltered Beast (shown: Altered Beast, Super Thunder Blade)
• Technical Details (shown: Tommy Lasorda Baseball)

Atari Safari - Atari's Colorful Answer To Game Boy (1 page; Atari Lynx hardware shown; games shown:)

• California Games
• Electrocop (unnamed)
• Monster Demolition (aka Rampage?)

Amiga Players - Dungeon Master (2 pages; game shown)

Commodore Players - Hillsfar And Pro Soccer (3 pages; games shown)

Mac Players - Pucks And Power (1 page; games shown:)

• Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition
• Shufflepuck Cafe

Cheap Thrills - Two Revivals (3 pages; games shown; includes sections:)

• The Adventures of Captain Comic For PC Compatibles
• Gravity Wars For The Amiga

Nintendo Game of the Month: Zelda II - The Adventure of Link (10 pages; NES; strategy guide)

Computer Game of the Month: Space Quest III - The Pirates of Pestulon (7 pages; PC; strategy guide)

Game Reviews (1 page each; all shown)

• Slipheed (PC)
• The Magic Candle (PC)
• Steel Thunder (PC)
• NFL Challenge (PC)
• Search for the Titanic (PC)
• Air Fortress (NES)
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (NES)
• Hudson's Adventure Island (NES)
• Mappyland (NES)
• Thundercade (NES)
• Paperboy (NES)
• Blood Money (Amiga)
• Batman, The Caped Crusader (C64)
• Rastan (SMS)

News & Previews (6 pages; all shown unless noted)

• Lucasfilm Debuts Indiana Jones And Loom (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (action game; C64,Amiga,ST,PC), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (graphic adventure; PC,Amiga,ST),Loom (PC,Amiga,ST))
• Data East Kicks Off MVP Sports (ABC Monday Night Football (PC))
• Gamers Await Double Dragon Sequel (none shown; Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Amiga,ST,PC,C64,IIGS,NES), Monopoly (ST,Amiga,PC), Clue Master Detective (computer); Scrabble, Risk updated to allow hard disk install)
• Epyx Hangs Ten Again! (California Games II, Revenge of Defender (PC), Flyton 500 (PC))
• StarGoose Flies Into Stores (StarGoose (PC,Amiga,ST); not shown: Sargon 4 (Mac,PC))
• Absolute Adds Videogame Titles (Kung Fu Master (7800); not shown: A Boy and His Blob (NES), Shredder (NES), James Bond 007 (Sega game), R.C. Grand Prix (Sega game), Tomcat: F-14 Fighter Simulator (7800), F-18 Hornet (7800))
• Lo! An AD&D Sequel Appeareth (not shown; Curse of the Azure Bonds)
• It's A Bird, It's A Plane... (none shown; Superman: The Man of Steel (PC,Amiga,ST), Miami Vice (PC,ST,IIGS,C64,Amiga))
• Quest For Day-Trippers (not shown; Knights of Legend)
• Take Me Out To The Ballgame (Hardball II (PC), Conspiracy: The Deadlock Files (PC); not shown: The Third Courier (PC), Don't Go Alone(PC))
• Guess Whodunnit With Kyodai (Murder Club (PC), not shown: Ancient Land of Ys (PC,IIGS))
• Mindscape Offers Variety (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (PC,Mac,Amiga); not shown: Gauntlet II (PC,Amiga,ST,C64), Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun (PC,Amiga,ST), Harley-Davidson: The Road to Sturgis (PC,Amiga,ST))
• "When" In The World is Carmen? (not shown; Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?)
• A Cure For Videogame Fever (Homework First NES parental lock accessory)
• Hand-To-Screen Combat (Mattel Power Glove accessory)

Guideposts: The Hot 100 (5.5 pages; Top 100 video and computer games; none shown)

The Game Player's Hall of Fame (1 page; reader bios)

Chartbusters (1 page; poll results and top lists)