Tips & Tricks Issue 1

Features:

• Editorial: You're Nothin' but a Dirty Cheat! (Chris Bieniek welcomes everybody to the new mag, then explains the T&T parlance, defining Tip, Trick, Easter Egg, Bug, Combo, and Boss so everybody's on the same page)
• Readers' Tips (Submitted tidbits of info from readers)
• MORTAL KOMBAT! (Mortal Monday's coming, and Chris Bieniek breaks down the differences between all the home versions.)
• Mortal Kombat II: More Midway Mayhem (Revision 3.0 of the MKII arcade machine brings some new changes to the game, and what's a good Arcade feature without a full move list?)
• Game Genie Codes
• Pro Action Replay Codes

Genesis Tips:

• Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team
• Micro Machines
• Pink Goes Hollywood
• Flashback
• Mortal Kombat
• Disney's Aladdin
• Sunsetriders
• Jungle Strike
• Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
• Ecco the Dolphin

Genesis Strategy:

• General Chaos
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors

Sega CD Tips:

• Stellar-Fire
• Prize Fighter
• Double Switch
• Microcosm
• The Terminator
• Sonic CD

Sega CD Strategy:

• Double Switch

Super NES Tips:

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
• Super Nova
• Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team
• Pink Panther in Pink Goes Hollywood
• Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
• Cacoma Knight
• Tom & Jerry
• Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
• WWF Royal Rumble
• Taz-Mania

SNES Strategy:

• Clay Fighter (Move lists for every contender)

Jaguar Strategy:

• Raiden

Jaguar Tips:

• Trevor McFur in The Crescent Galaxy
• Jaguar Hardware

NES Tips:

• Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team
• Batman Returns

Game Boy Tips:

• Mortal Kombat
• Raging Fighter

Game Gear Tips:

• Super Monaco GP II
• Lemmings
• Tengen World Cup Soccer

Ads (in order of appearance):

• Ken Griffey Jr. Presents: Major League Baseball (SNES)
• J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Volume 1 (SNES)
• VideoGames Magazine subscription ad
• The Pirates of Dark Water (GEN)
• Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage (SNES)
• Rock N' Roll Racing (SNES)
• Prince of Persia (GEN)
• Pinball Dreams (SNES/GG/GB)
• Atari Jaguar system
• Ninja Warriors (SNES)

Notable Stuff:

• Tips & Tricks loves to put Mortal Kombat II on their covers, don't they? And why not; Mortal Kombat sold mags like mad back in the day.
• Speaking of the cover, how about those four free tips right there on the front of the magazine? Nice to see codes and goodies not buried in the pages of a magazine for once.
• The strategy pages for General Chaos are printed sideways for some reason.
• According to Joe Sislow of Jaleco, Warren Robinett (designer of Adventure on the 2600) researches VR at UNC Chapel Hill! How cool!
• This issue breaks Sonic CD wide open, with every strategy and cheat code you could possibly want for one of the best games on the Sega CD system.
• That Double Switch walkthrough is the most comprehensive you'll find outside of GameFAQs.
• The Game Boy version of Mortal Kombat is the only home translation that let you play as Goro, as the Game Boy Tips section described in this issue.