Megalextoria

Computer & Video Games was the longest running video game magazine that I am aware of. It was published in the U.K. and seemed to avoid the fate of magazines like Electronic Games in the U.S. during the video game crash. Issue number 113 from April 1991 includes:

• Spectrum Reviews – Reviews of ZX Spectrum games including Afterburner, F16 Combat Pilot, Xenon, Double Dragon, Star Control, and Silkworm.

• Amstrad Reviews – Reviews of Amstrad CPC games including Silkworm, Star Control, Double Dragon, Xenon, and Return of the Jedi.

• C64 Reviews – Reviews of Commodore 64 games including SWIV, Last Ninja III, Double Dragon, Silkworm, Xenon, WEC Le Mans, and Fist of Fury II.

• ST Reviews – Reviews of Atari ST games including Midwinter II: Flames of Freedom, Hard Drivin’ II, Test Drive II, and The Supercars.

• Amiga Reviews – Reviews of Commodore Amiga game including SWIV, Hard Drivin’ II, Star Control, Gemeini Wing, Silkworm, Double Dragon, and Xenon.

  

• PC Reviews – A review of Red Baron for DOS.

• Sega Reviews – A review of PacMania for the Sega Master System.

• MegaDrive Reviews – Reviews of MegaDrive / Sega Genesis games including Gynoug, Atomic Robokid, Aeroblasters, Super Real Basketball, and Lakers vs Celtics.

• PC Engine Reviews – Reviews of PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 games including Jackie Chan, Special Criminal Investigation, Override, and Cadash.

• Hootenanny Hotlines! – This seems to have been some sort of 1-900 type service where you paid per minute for the phone call and had to answer some questions for a chance to win a MegaDrive, PC Engine, Game Boy, or Super Famicom (all separate numbers to call of course).

• Ed First – Current and upcoming changes to the magazine and the difficulties of getting an issue out on time.

  

• News – Akira for the Famicom, Moonwalker for Sega systems, new MegaDrive games from Electronic Arts, Return of the Jedi for the NES, a Super Mario Bros. movie, Game Gear U.K. launch announced, and more.

• Yob’s Mailbag – Letters from readers about Darth Vader, magazine quality issues, Ghost N’ Goblins and Operation Wolf on the C64, and more.

• Cheat Mode – Tips, tricks, and cheats for SCI, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Total Recall (C64), Bubble Bobble (Amstrad), Gemini Wing (Amstrad), Double Dragon 2 (Nintendo), Track and Field 2 (Nintendo), Faxandu (Nintendo), Back to the Future 2 (Nintendo), Gremlins 2 (Amiga), Dragon Breed (Amiga), Atomic Robokid (Amiga), Robocop 2 (Amiga), Super Hang-On (MegaDrive), Rempage (Lynx), Bubble Bobble (Game Boy), Shinobi (PC Engine), Darius Plus (PC Engine), Speedball 2 (Atari ST, Amiga), and much more.

• The CVG Charts – The top 20 games this month include Speedball 2 (Amiga), Golden Axe (Sega Master System), Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (C64), and many more. There are also top 20 lists specifically for the Amiga, Atari ST, Nintendo, PC Engine, Sega Master System, Commodore 64, Amstrad, Spectrum, and MegaDrive.

• Sadie’s Scorers – Reader submitted high scores for a variety of games for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad, Commodore 64, Spectrum, Sega Master System, MegaDrive, Nintendo, PC Engine, and Super Famicom.

• Jazza’s Arcade Action – Reviews of some of the latest arcade games including Nemo from Capcom and Robocop II from Data East.

• Previews – A look at some games in progress including Mercs from U.S. Gold, Super Cars II from Gremlin for the Amiga, Chuck Rock from Core Design, World Class Leaderboard from U.S. Gold, Populous from Tecmagik for the Sega Master System, , and F-15 Strike Eagle from MicroProse.

…and more!