Tips & Tricks Issue 27

Features:

• Power Up! - Staff Secrets (Mini bios of the editors and contributors to T&T magazine)
• Readers' tips (Letters and artwork from the fans)
• Arcade Brigade (three-panel comic strip by Constant Pound)
• Tyrone's Nightmare (six-panel live-action/game sprite hybrid comic strip)
• Fanzine Patrol (Check out Jess Ragan's "The Gameroom Blitz" 'zine and Ryan H. Smith's "Silicon")
• Japan Report! (What's happening in otaku-world)
• Tyrone's OTHER Favorite Arcade (Southern Hiills Golfland is where Tyrone likes to play)
• T&T's Anime (Why, that's Street Fighter II V we're looking at!)
• iClub Nintendo: Magnifico! (Tyrone reviews the Spanish version of Nintendo Power)
• Innovation's 1997 Product Line-Up (Peripherals for your favorite systems)
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy tips poster
• Nintendo 64 Tips
• PlayStation Tips
• Saturn Tips
• Genesis Tips
• Super NES Tips
• Cheat Codes (Game Genie and Game Shark codes)
• Letter From Betty (Betty Hallock's hand-written note to T&T readers everywhere, complete with picture montage)

PlayStation Strategy:

• Vandal Hearts battle guide (Glenn Broderick walks you through every fight, from start to finish, in this PS1 tactical battle game)

Nintendo 64 Strategy:

• Killer Instinct Gold (Tyrone Rodriguez shows off some massive 15-21-hit combos for every character in the game)
• Turok (Cheat codes and level maps galore! This is part 2 of Nikos Constant's guide; part 1 can be found in the previous issue)

Saturn Strategy:

• Die Hard Arcade (Nikos Constant provides the low-down on the weapons, special moves, enemies, and stages)

Neo-Geo Strategy:

• Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (If it's combos and techniques you want, Tyrone Rodriguez has you covered)

Select Games (Reviews and Previews of the hottest new titles on the market):

• Rampage World Tour (ARC)
• Yoshi's Island 64 (N64)
• Duke Nukem 3D (SAT)
• MDK (PS1)
• Codename: Tenka (PS1)
• Fighters Megamix (SAT)
• Norse by Norsewest: The Lost Vikings Return (PS1)
• Need For Speed II (PS1)
• City of Lost Children (PS1)
• Goal Storm '97 (PS1)
• Thunder Truck Rally (PS1)
• Shining the Holy Ark (SAT)
• Sentient (PS1)
• Pitfall 3-D (PS1)
• Professional Underground League of Pain (PS1)
• Nanotek Warriors (PS1)
• Bottom of the Ninth '97 (PS1)
• Wild 9 (PS1) (shown here as 'Wild 9s')
• Mission: Impossible (N64)
• Manx TT Super Bike (SAT)
• Rush Hour (PS1)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (SAT)
• Mortal Kombat 4 (ARC)

Ads (in order of appearance):

• Blast Corps (N64)
• Tips & Tricks subscription card
• Funco mail order company
• Doom 64 (N64)

Notable Stuff:

• This issue's 'Token of the Month' comes from the Studio 28 arcade in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was submitted by Dane Genther of Wayland, Michigan.
• So Tips & Tricks is publishing food reviews now via their Readers' Tips section? Okayyyyy...
• The Real Bout Fatal Fury Special guide is about as complete as you could want. Neo-Geo enthusiasts, you want this issue.
• Where does that Super Mario Bros. manga panel on the bottom of page 53 come from?
• There are so many games listed in the respective Tips sections of the magazine that we've chosen not to index them at this time. It makes reading the index itself so much easier...
• Letter From Betty is one of the weirdest and coolest features in a gaming magazine. Betty Hallock, we love you!
• The magazine must have been subsisting almost entirely on subscription and newsstand sales. There are only three ads in the entire magazine, not counting their own subscription offer. Either ad space was so expensive that nobody was buying in, or T&T ran so lean and mean that they didn't need to court advertisers. Compare that to other contemporary mags, some of which used 45% of their page count on ads, and you can see just how bonkers this is.