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Gi Monthly!

Your July/August 1994 issue has got to be your best issue yet. | am very pleased with the layout, design, and ! must say your reviews are the best any- where. You’ve got more tips and codes than anybody else. Your magazine has really come a long way since my first issue (Nov/Dec ‘92). All this leads to one question. When are you going to increase the size of your mag and be- come a monthly publication? Just imagine the possibilities. More tips, codes, reviews, editorials, and you could even start to have strategy guides for the hottest games (Mega Man, Super Metroid, etc.). | love those games and when | get stuck, | really need help. Why don’t you have RPG, Sports, and Fighting game sections? Or have a combo guide for MK Il and Super SF If? Just think about it. You re- ally have the potential to be a top con- tender. Keep up the good work, and who knows? Just take advantage of your power.

P.S. Your reviews are the best be- cause you don’t kiss up when a game stinks.

Joe Carlin

The possibilities, eh! All right then, we'll do it. We shall take over the world! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Second Thoughts?

I'd like to ask a few questions that we Jaguar owners are all wondering about.

First, Atari claims to have over 35 II- censees for the Jaguar. For months I've read about these games that Atarl has, and the ones their 3rd parties are working on. The Jaguar has been out for quite some time now, and there has- n’t been a single new game since Tempest 2000. Alien Vs. Predator, Redline Racer, and Wolfenstein should have been out a long, long, long time ago. What's the deal, where are the *#$! games!? When will anything new be available!?

Second, Is Atarl having some kind of financial troubles? There are only 3 stores | know of that carry the Jaguar.

Do you have any pics, of new games that are planned for Jaguar? What about Mortal Kombat II? Is Williams Entertainment bringing this fighter to the 64-bit console? Will the Jaguar suffer the same fate as the Turbo- grafx-16?

P.S. | should have learned my lesson after my disappointment with the Lynx.

Chris (Arcade-A-Holic) Sims Milwaukee, WI

Okay, by now Wolfenstein and Brutal Sports Football are out (oh yea!), and the others should be on their way. | would have to agree though. They told us that all these games would be here and they're not. It’s pretty disappointing, because we believe the Jaguar can do well. It definitely has its niche in the video game industry, but if their performance continues to be less than satisfactory , owners like you and me will quickly run to another system

and leave poor Atari in the dust. So when will the carts come? | know this is going to sound bad, but | don't think even Atari knows. Atari has come to a serious cross- roads in their business. Companies are in- terested in carrying and supporting the Jaguar. They think it has an excellent price point and a lot fans, but one thing that re- tailers and gamers demand, is games. Of course, you can’t get games until you get units out there so it's kind of a catch-22. | don't know, but! hope they make it. It would a shame for games like Iron Soldier, Battlezone 2000, and Blue Lightning to never make it to the market because Atari can’t get their act together.

What’s Up with Sonic?

In your July/August 1994 issue It says that there Is a code for Sonic 3 to access a level select (Up, Up, Down, Down, Up, Up, Up). I’ve tried it a thou- sand times and it doesn’t work. | would like to know what's wrong.

Mike Vittorio Glendale Heights, IL

| wish. could tell you it was wrong, but it's not. We received a number of calls and letters concerning the difficulty of this code so here's a couple of possible solutions. Sometimes it's because your controller is worn out and you can’t get a true Up or Down input. Other times, it’s because you just didn’t do it right (I know, unbelievable), or you just didn’t do it fast enough. Try it again, faster, and it just may work.

i Think This Cart is Broken?

First of all, let me say that your mag- azine Is the best of Its kind that I’ve ever read. | used to get Nintendo Power, but yours kills it! | got my first copy at a lo- cal store and | can’t walt for my first is- sue via my new subscription to your magazine, | do have a couple of quick questions though.

1.) | noticed the other day that my older SNES cartridges have different case designs than my newer ones, par- ticularly in the center towards the bot- tom. Why Is this?

2.)While browsing through the in- struction manual of my new game Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball, | saw a warning about making illegal back-up copies of

the cartridges. How Is that possible? —

Larry Benson Holbrook, NY

Originally when they made the SNES unit it was designed to lock-in your car- tridges. At a later date, Nintendo decided to remove this feature, so they redesigned the cartridge casing to correct the problem. However, this change didn’t fix one prob-

lem - game pirating or as it is seldomly called “game back-up”. Game pirating can

be done with a number of grey market

“game back-up” units. Of course, game pi- rating is highly illegal, and | would not want to be the guy that Sega or Nintendo found with their game. They don't have a lot of sympathy for people who copy their games.

4™ Don’t Go Back

to Happyville!

I! have a Super NES and have just re- cently purchased a Real 3D0. | bought it because | was so disappointed with Super NES’s games! | thought the Marlo’s were great games, but come on! I'm tired of being a plumber stomping on mushrooms In happyville!! | love blood and guts, especially in games like Doom. Are there any games coming out (for any system) where you are the bad guy trying to create evil rather than stopping It? If one comes out, you can be sure I'll buy it. So review it!

P.S. Should have more 3D0 reviews.

Joe Gelet Boca Raton, FL

But the key word is thought! Games that are based in Happyville are actually a lot of fun. They are especially fun if you don't like ultra-violent games like a large num- ber of people. | would like to remind you of one rule of thumb. Just because games have blood in them doesn’t necessarily make them good. Remember Time Killers! Doom is good, not particularly because of the blood and violence, but because the gameplay is excellent. Oh yeah... get to be the bad guy. That sounds like a sweet game.

Frustrated!

| would like your opinions on some- thing. What Is the hardest fighting game for the Genesis or Super Nintendo? | need a tough game, because | beat MK |, Ina half-hour (on the “Very Hard” set- ting), the first day I got It. | have already beat Super Street Fighter 2 on the hard- est level and Streets of Rage 3 on the 2nd hardest level. I'm not bragging, Just frustrated. Please help me. Jeff Lowich Bridgewater, NJ

Well, almost every game has got some quirk you can exploit or code you can use, so unless you're a playing a human oppo- nent, a player of your caliber may not get much competition. We can say that Eternal Champions is tough, and that’s not on your list of accomplishments.

Vidiots of the World Unite and Take Over!

I'm 23 years old and I’m nuts about video games. | love your magazine. The hints, tips, and overall game rating Is simply top of the line. | own a Nintendo and Sega Genesis, | don’t really play Nintendo that much anymore, but Sega keeps me on my toes with new games and excellent graphics.

| look forward to future G.I. Issues and all the gaming knowledge one per-

son can withstand. Raymond Foster University Park, IL

Game Informer * November ‘94

Thanks, but let's hope nobody's brain explodes!

Nice Shot!

What a great job you guys are do- ing. Nintendo Power is not up to date on the newest games and codes. Plus, it advertises the terrible Nintendo games as great ones! As for Game Pro, if | wanted a pile of ads, I’d keep all the coupon booklets! getin my trash mail!

Your mag is smokin’! You get the tips and codes before anyone. Your mag sure has improved since when | started subscribing. Just one ques- tion. How do you get such perfect screen shots for your reviews? The whole screen shows and It Is a perfect square! How? Do you have an expert photographer?

Evan Ballyn Oceanside, N.Y.

Thanks Evan, your letter is quite hu- morous! “Your mag is smokin” has been the saying around here lately. As far as the screen shots are concerned, we don’t use a photographer. We take those screen shots with a computer. We play all our games on our computer monitors through video cards, so when we see something that we want to putin the book, we just press a button and it’s done. The tricky part is getting through the game!

Super Bomb Launcher?

| have a question about Sega of America and Nintendo of America. They're mostly made in Japan, maybe some in America, but still the system Is put out by companies in Japan. Not only that, but they try to be so decelv- ing. Like when Nintendo calls the Super Scope 6 a scope? It looks more like a bomb launcher. Why not call It one? It could be the Super Bomb Launcher. That’s what It’s used for, or a gun.

Bret Klapper

Accolades Recently my friend showed me a copy of Game Informer mag. | was amazed as | read through It! The pictures In your mag are the best I’ve seen yet. In all your 65 pages (I only noticed a couple of ads) you had tons of reviews and five full pages of codes and tips. |also read a letter by Andrew McNamara, and every word of that was true. Other mags rate games high because they get paid, but not Gl.

You're #1. Zac Jenks

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Gl reviewers rate games in six categories:

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Game Informer ®© November ‘94

Letter From the Editor

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Drum Roll Please! or once this letter should be fairly easy to write, because the

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quite some time. Game Informer Magazine, as some of you might have already figured out, is now a monthly publication. And no, we won't be changing our name to Game Informer Monthly or anything silly like that. However, what we will do is keep bringing you our honest opin- ion on video games and the electronic games industry, only twice as often.

Now, why make such an obvious statement? Doesn't every magazine do that? It’s an easy question with a not so easy

answer. Our work just doubled, and the easy way is to do it would be to

work just like every other magazine; read the press release, play the first.

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dedication make GI different...and better.

I know you probably didn’t know this, but one of the unique things we do here at GI is play every game that we preview or review in the maga- zine, Any game that we run in this mag we have either seen and played extensively at a CES, or actually have on the premises. Now, why does that make us unusual? Well, we don’t or won't always have the “first pics” of the hot new game, but you can rest assured, when we run the game we'll have the real story (not some fable that some editor dreamed up). Nothing

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“The snow is back and | can finally start snow

boarding again with Tim. Unfortunately, that’s about the only good thing | can say about win- ter. Of course, there are a number of cool games to play. Donkey Kong and Sonic & Knuckles have also eaten up a good bit of my time, but nothing can compare to Earthworm Jim in the action/platform category. FF 3, MKil, and Road Rash (yes, a good game for 3D0) are the only other games I've played that | truly enjoy and go back to again and again. Also, | just went to the AMOA to play Ultra 64. Ahhh, this is the ite!”

‘Well, the snow W has fallen again and we all know what that means, hockey season is here! Although the winters here come fast, what with us so close to the “Great White North” and all, the fresh white blanket is wel- comed by me. Looking back, my favorite games will have to be Earthworm Jim, Donkey Kong Country, NHL ‘95, NBA Live ‘95 (what can | say? I'm a sports nut) Return of the Jedi, and Road Rash.”

“Well it's Winter once again so | will be stay-

ing inside with my favorite vids. These include Final Fantasy 3 and Road Rash 3DO. The 32X is coming very soon. Here's hoping the system delivers the goods and there will be lots of great games ready for it's release. |am totally psyched up for being a monthly publi- cation. So until December adios.*

‘The Gpectiunty to ae the interactive ai has, again, slipped through my fingers. Now I'll have to practice over the cold months to rehone my gaming prowess. Enough about me and my delusions of virtual superiority. Games are about to flood your world, and | hope you're ready for the onslaught. This is- sue is packed with some of the best games of this year. So check out my scores. If you agree or disagree with my review, letme know why by mail or e-mail. You'll read plenty from

me, let's see what you think.”

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* ©) 1994 Nintendo. Game by Rare, Jurassic Park |™ & © 1992 Universal City Studio, Ine. & Amblin Entertainment, ine

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The first home video game

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supercomputers of SGI (the same ones used for that Jurassic Park flick.)

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yourself all over. A juiced-up jungle packed with over 100

chest-pounding Levels.

A 16-BIT GAME THAT LOOKS LIKE 32-BIT? SURE,

Blinding snowstorms, exploding barrels, crazy monkeys riding on the backs Of TIS wes 7s GLE here in Nintendo's biggest game ever.

Nae mmm ACM* technology,

SEPARATED AT BIRTH? @ s z the action is

DONKEY KONG AND HIS NEW SIDEKICK,

“Hold on to your banana.

imeem Donkey Kong Country:

WHEN MONKEYS SWIM...

totally realistic

fully rendered. Meaning, it Looks really cool. Heck, it even sounds 3-D!

But the best part is you get all this on a Super NES. And you don't have to go out and blow your wad on some extra piece of hardware to get it — unlike some other systems we know. CHint: rhymes with "Schmega". )

So grab a vine and start

yelling Beekeh mekel bee The beast

is back. And he's second

banana to no one.

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GI Finds Knuckles In The First Backward Compatible Cart.

m Cart Size: 16-Meg m Style: 1 or 2-Player Competitive Action/Platform mw Special Features: “HYPER” Characters, ‘Lock-On” Technology Allowing Certain Cartridges To Attach,

collect all the Chaos — sa ‘il Dr. _ Robotnik. Sonic & Knuckles is an excellent game cart in ‘its own right, but Sega’s new “Lock-On” technology is what really makes S&K truly innovative. The “Lock-On” technology allows you to attach other Sonic games to the S&K cartridge, much like a video game enhancer, and create new adventures on your older carts. Of course, in the Sonic & Knuckles adventure you may play as the lovable Sonic or Knuckles, the echidna. Until you “Lock-On” Sonic 2 or 3, you won't be able to see what the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge can accomplish. Knuckles, along with Sonic and “Tails”, will be playable when you “Lock-On” Sonic 2. And when Sonic 3 is clamped on, the Sonic and Knuckles cartridge really shows what the backward compatibility can accomplish. Connecting Sonic 3 to Sonic and Knuckles combines the levels of the two games into a 14 level “mega” game. It 5 bs 7 not only brings the Sonic and Knuckles levels a save fea- Sonic and Dr. Robotnik in ture, the union of these two cartridges offer some other the classic battle. >... “never seen before” Sonic tricks.

SCORE 16000: “TIME=6 530=j RINGS = 3"

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“OOOOCOOW!”

Ross, Tue Reset Gamer

sai “The Sonic & Knuckles cart is a great : “Sonic & Knuckles takes video game- : “Sega is making another Sonic pp Concent: i game in and of itself. It has more of | _ cone: 8 dom in a totally new direction - back- pencont: eed game, and! for one would have never Graphics: 8.5 2 plot than the other three combined. | | Graphics: 8.25 Wards compatibility. It adds a whole F g guessed that there would be another

] The new toys and cool 3D effects new twist to some of your older one (Sarcasm folks). | do have to say Sound: 7 make it the best looking Sonic yet. H Sound: * 7 that the graphics on the first two

: Plus, what this can do for the other games were greatly improved when Playability: §.5 Sonic games makes S&K tower over 7 used with the new cart. | also like that

the previous versions. It doesn't _ you can play as Knuckles on the

Entertainment: 9.5 seem to doa whole lot for Sonic 2be- ¥ other carts too. Unless you're totally

i j | _ hs there's hed for another Sonic, | would |

si deer a io 3 fun to play aga __ What a great way to dust off those

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Wemeniber the barrier in Sonic 3? It's no problem for Knuckles.

By collecting all 12 Chaos Emeralds you'll make the characters “HYPER”.

a so youl. never Koc what bonus RS you "I SEE NeXt. ‘Finally, by collecting all the Chaos Emeralds (a total of 12) you can © become “HYPER”. This is similar to the “SUPER” Sonic found in Sonic 2 or 3 by collecting all 6 Chaos Emeralds. The “HYPER” mode will allow the characters to be invincible and access hidden levels within the game.

Confused? Well, it is confusing because the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge can do so many great things for Sonic 2 and 3. Pius, with S&K you can access secrets in Sonic 1 and Sonic Spinball via hidden button combinations that will be released soon.

Only you may unearth the complexities of the Sonic & Knuckles mystery. Stay informed and look to Gl for

further info. Knuckles is not as strong as You won't see Knuckles like

Sonic, but he can still kick butt. this, without Sonic 2.

Game Informer a November ‘94. 11

You think you want to be King?

Get real. You're starting life as Simba, the cub. To survive and grow into a powerful adult lion, you must perfect your savage pounce, reckless roar and master fighting with all four paws. If you survive the challenge,

you'll grow into a strong, ferocious adult lion.

So prepare to scrap with hyenas. Blast through an elephant graveyard. Battle an in-your-face stampede of trampling wilde- beests. And you'd better quit hanging with slackers like Timon and Pumbaa, unless you want to be scarfing bugs the rest of your life!

Are you sure you want to be King? Then it’s time to cut loose in the deadliest one-on-one brawl ever. Defeat your evil Uncle Scar. Recapture the Pridelands. And reclaim your rightful place in

the Circle of Life.

_ A radical variety of gameplay that follows the adventures of the hit movie The Lion King through 10 levels of action, puzzles and combat.

- Fast, super smooth, movie-like animation, hand-drawn by top Disney animators and packed with the latest Digicel ™ technology in a 24-meg cartridge.

_ All 9 music selections from the movie, includ- ing “The Circle of Life,” “Just Cant Wait to Be King” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight? composed by Elton John and Tim Rice. f

_ Able to control four characters: young Simba, adult Simba, Timon and Pumbaa.

© The Walt Disney Company. © 1994 Virgin Interacti¥ Mement, Inc. The Lion King is a Disney Software / Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. co-production. Virgin is a registered trademark of Virgin Enterprises, Ltd. Sega™ and Genesis = B Wau nterprises, Ltd. Super NES is a registered trademark of Nintendo of America, Inc. All rights reserved.

Informer « November ‘¢

- Entertainment:

“Dynamite Headdy is an action/

platform game that you can tell |

g somebody spent a lot of time on. |

Everything is perfectly placed, and |

6.5 from level to level the action gets better and better. You can really see

9 the detail in the 3-D graphics and the |

amazing animation. Although it isn’t 8 anything new in the category, it does |

doit very well, and that makes it worth

its weight. | will warn you though, it's

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more difficult than any Sonic, so you |

better have some patience.”

Concept: Graphics:

think much of it. Now that | can see

8.5 past the cover, | think a lot about it. This game fits into the same category

g as Decap Attack, only the levels and heads are much better. It’s

Playability:

to make you utterly frustrated. The Entertainment: 9 bosses are really difficult until you figure out where to hit ‘em and the patterns that they use. In closing,

! would like to remind gamers | everywhere that you can’t judge a

book by its cover.”

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‘I first thought that Dynamite Headdy would be a walk in the park. The first g intros and practice levels fool you. This is a very original action platform 8 that shows some cool levels. The tower stage has been done before, § but the boss stage after that is really amazing. If you're tired of picking up § coins or rings, like most games of this style, Dynamite Headdy is sure relief from the same ol’ platform.”

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Introducing the Suver Punch-Out

. Graduating Class of 94

Now get in lots of fights after

school without getting suspended.

It's Super Punch-Out.® The

biggest Punch-Out ever, Hager naUiammare

some of the biggest Lowlifes ever.

They may look dumb. But

these guys are big and in-your-

face (no sissy side-view perspectives.)

Even worse, they've each got

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Now LET’S HAVE A GOOD CLEAN FIGHT. gotta figure out before you Can (iQ Men @iiail-t iam ole ne aoe But before you even step in the ring, you gotta have a Super NES. And then it's DING! DING! — 16 bouts of smacks, hits, jabs and of course, lots of

‘ee aenes below the belt.

Sound like fun? You bet

JUST ho OF THE ReAnBER LE ae Ed YOU’LL

AND THEY JUST CALLED YOU A LITTLE teeth. Cuz you know, there's nothing | Like beating the ERR out of a big

ol' ugly guy.

your last few remaining

Although a knee to the groin is

pretty cool too. onty For,

SUPER NINTENDO

©1994 Nintendo of America Inc. Super Punch-Out is a trademark of Nintendo of America Inc.

THE Bottom LINE

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"This game is fantastic! This is the 8.75 first Mickey cart that has kept me | glued to the screen throughout the |

g entire adventure since Castle of Illusion. While it’s no Sonic, it does Playahility: 9 ae all the right ingredients for: a great Action/Platform game

Entertainment: 8.5 Animation, excellent play control, ; and a good difficulty level (for a Disney game). If you like Mickey don’ miss this cart."

Concept: "The idea of taking old Mickey Mouse

movies and making each one into its own mini video game sounded good

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accomplishment as you defeat the ~ Playability: easy early levels and take on the " more challenging ones. | wish the .. Entertainment: 7.5 game had a way of tying all the parts together at the end, butitdoesn’t. The — graphics are great but the play is i pretty ordinary. Mickey Mania is a — good game but not a classic."

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~~ BORTION OF THE GAME, 16 Meg Concent: 7 ‘I'm no Mickey Maniac, but | did THE GRAPHICS ARE A 1-Player Action Platform Be ae ee MIX BETWEEN BLACK & Mickey Mouse Adventures Graphics: 825 7 ds a : raat Be ‘i ie WHITE, 3-0 OBJECTS, AND From Over the Last 60 Years, 3-D Rendered Sound: 9 the wa y it ties in the different COLOR! THE FINAL OUT- Objects, and Interactive Backgrounds cartoons starring Mickey. The black PUT IS AMAZING! Travellers Tales for Sony Imagesoft Playability: 8.5 and white portion of the game is

November ‘94 ingenious. The sound is also

Entertainment: § 9 memorable and hilarious. Second, — Mickey Mania has enough challenge - and variation in play to keep me | interested. Not just jump, jump, jump,......Get the picture? This is —

more challenging than Castle & World of Illusion, but not impossible like Fantasia."

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Game Informer & Noverfiber ‘94

NOT EVERYONE WINS.

THE MAYAN ADVENTURE

Panic is a human reaction. It’s natural to panic when you're swinging from a vine

above a crocodile pit. Explove haunted

: Crocodiles feed on Mayan vulns.

panic. They can smell it. So you tell yourself not to panic. But it’s too late. By then it’s over. e Pitfall is the vine- swinging adventure that pits you against the evil of the Mayan jungle. Jaguars. Snakes. Rats. Hawks. ee re Quicksand. Evil Mayan 2000 frames of spirits. What's your Re ay ees arsenal? A slingshot. A boomerang. Exploding stones. And, the head on your shoulders. e It’s the legendary Pitfall, back with eye-popping graphics and a pulse- pounding, jungle sound- Take avideonan track. Run, swing, skate apandoned mine Cav. and bungee through

incredible, nerve-wracking worlds in the

jungle adventure that started it all. Pitfall: The : Mayan Adventure.

No, winning isn't everything. But losing bites!

marks of Activision, Inc. Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is a trademark of Ac Inc. Nin! lo, Supe Ent inment Syst and the offi gistered trac inc. Sega, Sega CD and Genesis are trademarks of Sega Enterprises, Ltd. All righ