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  • Tips & Tricks (January 1997)

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    Source: Computer & Video Game Magazines – Tips & Tricks – January 1997

    Though descended from my favorite magazine, VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, Tips & Tricks was never a magazine I paid much attention to. Many loved the hints, strategy guides and cheats it provided but I was always more interested in news, reviews and that sort of thing. Tips & Tricks provides a little of that also but it’s emphasis is, as the name would imply, on tips and tricks. The January 1997 issue includes:

    Departments

    • Power Up! – An introduction to the staff which includes Chris Bieniek, Wataru Maruyama, Ione Flores, Nikos Constant, Bett Hallock, Tyrone Rodriguez and Deborah Lockhart.
    • Readers’ Tips – Readers write in with tips on Daytona USA as well as various questions and comments.
    • T&T Select Games – Overviews and previews of recent and upcoming games including:
      • Jet Moto (PlayStation) – A racing game featuring a vehicle something like a Jet Ski.
      • Crime Wave (Sega Saturn) – A vehicle combat game featuring a top-down point of view.
      • Ten Pin Alley (PlayStation) – A bowling game of course.
      • Suikoden (PlayStation) – An RPG that allows not only individual and group combat but full scale wars.
      • Powerslave – A Doom-like game in which you wield magic as well as weapons.
      • NFL ’97 (Sega Saturn) – A football game featuring licensed teams, stadiums and players.
      • NBA Live ’97 (PlayStation) – Because we need a new basketball game every years…
      • FIFA Soccer ’97 (PlayStation) – …and soccer too of course.
      • FIFA Soccer Gold Edition (Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo) – A soccer game for the 16-bit systems.
      • FIFA Soccer ’97 (Game Boy) – Blurry soccer…
      • Madden ’97 (Game Boy) – Blurry football…
      • Burning Road (PlayStation) – A racing game out of France that is somewhat similar to the likes of Daytona USA and Ridge Racer.
      • Toshinden URA (Sega Saturn) – Another tweek to the Toshinden 3D fighting game franchise.
      • Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo) – The pinnacle of Mortal Kombat on 16-bit systems.
      • Destruction Derby 2 (PlayStation) – I loved these games and this one was among the first i had for my PlayStation.
      • King’s Field II (PlayStation) – A fairly well regarded 3D RPG.
      • Amok (Sega Saturn) – Frantic 3D action under the ocean.
      • Sonic 3-D Blast (Sega Saturn) – The first Sonic game for the Saturn.
      • TNN Motor Sports Hardcore 4×4 (PlayStation) – An off-road racing game.
      • Contra: Legacy of War – A 3D sequel to Contra. I still prefer the 2D versions.

    • Game Genie/Game Shark Codes – Game Genie codes for the Genesis games Toy Story, Vectorman and Garfield: Caught in the Act; Game Genie codes for the Super NES games Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday (I swear I’ve never heard of that one); Game Shark codes for the PlayStation games Bubble Bobble, Crash Bandicoot, Olympic Soccer, Project Horned Owl and Robo-Pit; and Game Shark codes for Sega Saturn games Bubble Bobble, Iron Storm and Shining Wisdom.
    • Letter from Betty – Betty has some tips for Mr. Do (Super NES) and Vectorman 2 (Genesis).

    Strategy

    • X-Men vs. Street Fighter – A detailed strategy guide for this arcade game featuring general moves and how to use them as well as details for each character. Also, how to play as a couple of hidden characters.
    • Kizuna Encounter – Another fighting game strategy guide, this one for the Neo Geo.
    • Wave Race 64 – A detailed guide for this Nintendo 64 racing game featuring Jet Skis. It was a pretty outstanding racer for the time.
    • Tomb Raider – A detailed strategy guide for the classic Tomb Raider on both the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

    The last half of the magazine features tips on dozens if not hundreds of games for the Super NES, Genesis, PlayStation, Saturn, Game Boy, Game Gear, 3DO and arcade. These tips can be anything from passwords to simple strategies to secret button combinations and more. If you are looking for secrets, cheats or strategies to beat a certain game then Tips & Tricks was always a gold mine.


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  • GamesMaster (January 1993)

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    Source: GamesMaster – Issue Number 1 – January 1993

    GamesMaster is a computer and video game magazine that was published in the U.K. from 1993 until 2018. It was originally a spin-off of a TV show by the same name but the show ended years before the magazine. It was also published in Lebanon between 1996 and 1999 and the Philippines between 2003 and 2009. Issue Number 1 from January 1993 includes:

    • Network – Bong! New magazine launched (oh, you’re already reading it!) Bong! Game Genie and Action Replay arrive for SNES. Bong! Cheap Sega carts on the way? bong! Etc. Bong!
    • Charts – What’s hot and what’s, if you must, “not” in the stores. Plus the chance to vote your fave game to the top of the Readers’ Chart.
    • Dominik’s Big Purple Column – The big barrel of double entendres has its bottom roughly scraped in this, the first of a series of frighteningly unhinged missives from everyone’s favorite redcoat.
    • TV News – Who’s on when? What challenges are coming up? This is the definitive guide, as you might expect, to what’s happening on GamesMaster over the next few weeks. Plus: what on EARTH is that git Douglas doing on the telly?
    • Games Arena – Two young men, one with a stinking cold and the other just stinking, face off for the dust-up of a lifetime on, you guessed it, Streetfighter 2. Think you can do better? Well here’s your chance…
    • Previews – Take a sneaky peek at forthcoming stormers for your system. This month we’ve got Mr. Nuts, Cool World, James Pond 3, Gunship 2000, Star Wars and, as they say, “more”!
    • Win The Ultimate Games Station! – If you thought that your car rent games system was smart think again. Here’s the chance to own every 16-bit console, and a bundle of software for each. PLUS: an ultra-smart color TV with full stereo sound to play on.
    • Reviews – For a full list of reviews; eyes right!
    • Subs – Scribble, snip, send, save, smile.
    • Survey – A million miles away from the skull-implodingly dull surveys you’re used to filling out, this one will actually improve your state of mind. No, really.
    • Win A Bloody Enormous Telly! – 28 throbbing inches of gristle, sorry, screen. That’s what’s on offer in our Comet Game Zone Sonic 2 Competition.
    • Tips Zone – From gaming geek to software Schwarzenegger in one super-easy step.
    • Christmas Start Here! – It would be a grumpy old scrooge of a magazine that didn’t offer some lighthearted Christmas fun and games, and a bah humbugging reader who didn’t enter into the spirit.
    • Secret Level… – That’s right. Lurking in this issue of GamesMaster is our very own secret level! Can you find it? Can you beat it?
  • Next Month

    • …and more!


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  • Nintendo Magazine System – Issue Number 8

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    Source: Computer & Video Game Magazines – Nintendo Magazine System – Issue Number 8

    Nintendo Magazine System was published in several countries and was the official Nintendo magazine in at least some of them. This particular one was published in Britain. Issue number 8 includes:

    Features

    • Cover Story – A cross between Alien Syndrome and countless space-bound horror films, Operation Logic Bomb blasts its way here for an exclusive NMS review. With loads to shoot, and loads of weaponry with which to do so, how does it fare?
    • Exhaust Heat II – Just when you thought racing games couldn’t get any faster, here come Seta with a game so fast it leaves scorch marks on your screen! Forget F-Zero, forget Exhaust Heat. The latest and greatest race game is for your Super NES – and we give it the full Mansell treatment…
    • NMS Goes To The Movies

      • – Lights, camera – and ACTION! With the likes of Batman Returns, Cool World and Lethal Weapon reviewed this very issue, we decided to lump them all together in a special section! So, buy yourself a large bucket of popcorn, irritate people by getting out of your seat and moving along the aisle every five minutes, and keep rustling a jumbo bag of salt and vinegar crisps whenever possible…

    Regulars

    • News – Big Arnie returns for another bout of Nintendo mayhem as Sony sign up the rights to his new movie, The Last Action Hero! Meanwhile Sylvester Stallone is set to hit the Super NES in a game based on his new film, Cliffhanger. Cripes! There’s all this and lots, lots more as we scour the world for all the tidbits of gossip you want to read.
    • Seal’s Mailbag – Arf, arf! Reeking of fish and suitably bewhiskered, SEAL returns for another bout of letter answering. However, if you really want to get on his good side, send him tins of sardines with your letter – it’s almost certain to get in then. Oh, and chocolate. He really likes chocolate. And crisps. And Toffee…
    • NHS: Nintendo Help System – Like Florence Nightingale did to countless soldiers all those years back, NMS cools the fevered brows of you struggling players out there. This month, Prince Of Persia and Alfred Chicken are dissected by our hand-picked team of butchers…sorry surgeons, and their innermost secret removed and placed in specimen jars for your delectation. All this and Small Tips, too. Blimey!
    • Will You Ever? – After revealing in our own, inimitable way the end of Axelay last month, this time we reveal what happens at the end of Super Mario World! That’s right, after the Mario has leapt on to Bowser for the very last time, and all that Mode 7-type related malarkey with the spiky one zooming in and out of the screen has gone, this is what happens…
    • High Scores – Is your sad fizzog featured within these hallowed pages? No, then get playing your fave game, attain a marvelous score, send us a dippy picture, and then wait for us to mock you in the next issue – all in harmless fun, of course.
    • Charts – Rockadoodledoo, Pop Pickers, it’s charteroony time! As well as the official Super NES, NES, and Game Boy charts, there’s the all-important NMS team chart where we scrap amongst ourselves just to get our favorite titles in there. Ah, so that explains why Kirby keeps making all those comebacks…
    • Blagman – Another new idea, and rather a daft one if we do say so ourselves. Blagman is King Scrap, without a doubt. If there is an industry freebie, this Robin Hood of the software industry is there to pinch it and distribute it amongst the needy and greedy. This month, Acclaim’s offices have been stripped bare of all manner of goodies, as the masked wonder offers a massive selection of poached freebies. If you want one, get writing…
    • Index – Ah, the Game Boy, How do we love thee? Let us count the ways. What a beautiful little device. So beautiful in fact that we have acquired the services of the lovely Sarah Ewing, EMAP beauty expert and Game Boy fan to deliver THE ultimate in looks tips and Game Boy info. What’s more, every Game Boy title under the sun is listed for your delectation. There’s never been anything quite like it, which is probably just as well…

    Super NES Reviews

    • Exhaust Heat II
    • Tuff E Nuff
    • Super James Pond
    • Outlander
    • Batman Returns
    • Cool World
    • The Terminator
    • Operation Logic Bomb
    • Shanghai II

    NES Reviews

    • Pugsly’s Scavenger Hunt
    • Lethal Weapon
    • James Pond II: Robocod
    • Mr Gimmick

    Game Boy Reviews

    • Universal Soldier
    • Lethal Weapon

    Previews

    • Alien 3
    • Terminator II
    • Striker
    • Biometal
    • Crash Dummies

    Tips

    • Small Tips
    • Prince of Persia
    • Alfred Chicken

    …and more!


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