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  • GamePro – January 1998

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    Source: GamePro – January 1998

    GamePro was never my favorite video gaming magazine but there’s no doubt it was one of the most popular next to EGM. Sadly, both are now gone. The January 1998 issue includes:

    Special Features

    • Castlevania 64: Interview with the Vampire Maker – The hunt for Dracula continues! The Konami crew in Japan reveals inside info on this highly anticipated title.
    • 1997: The Year of Gaming Dangerously – The GamePros list their favorite games of the year!
    • Spotlight On Road Rash 3D – Here’s a first look at the motorcycle madness that’s about to make its return to the PlayStation.

    SWATPro Strategy Section

    • MDK PlayStation ProStrategy Guide – Blast your way through MDK from beginning to end with the help of this walk-through. Plus, we give you the location of all the secret areas!
    • Fighter’s Edge: Mortal Kombat 4 (Arcade) – Be the master bone-crusher who devastates the kompetition with this komplete move list – more fatalities and combos than you can shake a spinal cord at!
    • S.W.A.T.Pro – Tips and tricks for Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, MDK, Street Fighter EX Plus, Treasures of the Deep, Resident Evil: Director’s Cut, Nuclear Strike, and more!

    ProReviews

    • PC GamePro
    • Nintendo 64
    • PlayStation
    • Saturn
    • Genesis
    • Sports Pages
    • Role-Player’s Realm

    Departments

    • Head-2-Head – 1998 is going to be a great year for GamePros!
    • The Mail
    • Art Attack
    • Buyers Beware – The consumer’s hotline!
    • ProNews – Nintendo plans to drop its prices on Diddy Kong Racing and Bomberman 64
    • NetPro – Tanarus!
    • Overseas Prospects – The new Cobra arcade board makes its debut.
    • Sneak Previews – WWF Warzone, Diablo, Spawn: The Eternal, and more!
    • PC GamePro – Riven and Quake II!
    • Hot at the Arcades – Check out San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition and off Road Challenge!

    …and more!


  • Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye (Super NES)

    Review of Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye by Activision for the Super Nintendo from the February 1993 issue of Game Player’s.

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    Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye

    Leslie Mizell

    Cheers for Activision – instead of doing a strict translation when they ported their computer game Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye to SNES, they actually made improvements that cause the Super Nintendo version to surpass the original!

    Shanghai, a solitaire version of the ancient Chinese game mahjongg, is one of the best strategy games around. You set up a game board called a dragon using 144 tiles in seven different suits. There are single tiles along the edges of the dragon, but the closer you get to the center, the higher the tiles are stacked. The object is to remove matching tiles until the board is cleared. however, you can remove only tiles that are “free,” not boxed in by tiles on both sides.

    There’s a terrific variety of tile sets in Shanghai II. In addition to the classic Chinese figures, try playing with the fantasy set or the flags of the world. Activision has added more sets than in the computer version, so you can even play with fish tiles or other wacky sets.

    Special options include two-player competition and tournament games, a time limit for plays, 13 different tile configurations, and a special “Dragon’s Eye” game that’s completely different.

    In short, here’s a simple game to learn and play that’s done to perfection.

    Source: Game Players – February 1993 – Page 66