{"id":23655,"date":"2019-09-26T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=23655"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:43:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:43:54","slug":"mega-january-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/09\/26\/mega-january-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"MEGA (January 1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/epnt.ebay.com\/static\/epn-smart-tools.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FMEGA%2FMEGA_16_1994-01&amp;twg_show=MEGA_16_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MEGA_16_001-791x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FMEGA%2FMEGA_16_1994-01&amp;twg_show=MEGA_16_001.jpg\">MEGA &#8211; January 1994<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<ins class=\"epn-placement\" data-config-id=\"5cb7a37a1c71ad42fe921239\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>MEGA was a U.K. published magazine dedicated to the Sega Genesis or Mega Drive as it was called there along with its various add-ons. Why was the name different anyway? MEGA wasn&#8217;t particularly long lived lasting only about 3 years between October 1992 and October 1994. The January 1994 issue includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>What Are You Playing At?<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Chances are, you&#8217;ll either already have, or will seriously be thinking about buying, one of the ten most scrumptious games of &#8217;93. What are they? Well, turn to our feature, which starts on page 16, and you&#8217;ll find out.<\/li>\n<li>Each of the games has a lovely two-page spread, in which we give you a bit of history on the game, a review, some tips, and various other relevant bits and bobs.<\/li>\n<li>And don&#8217;t forge, to find out all about the Saturn Console, and what you can expect to see in 1994, turn to page 66, where our second feature begins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Regulars<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mega City<\/b> &#8211; MEGA asks Sega why sequels are often a disappointment. Plus all the usual hot news from home and abroad.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Charts<\/b> &#8211; Same old crap, and precisely the same packaging. Yes, it&#8217;s the sad charts page. Funny it ain&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mega Play<\/b> &#8211; No change here, thank goodness. Just the best tips section in the universe.<\/li>\n<li><b>Arena<\/b> &#8211; And this is the bit that no other Mega Drive mag offers: wacky challenges to breathe new life into those tired old carts.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mega Retro<\/b> &#8211; This month, Jon Smith takes a look at the development of the platform shoot-&#8217;em-up. He rates every game in the genre and picks out some historic moments along the way.<\/li>\n<li><b>Back Issues<\/b> &#8211; Missed any of the previous 15 issues of MEGA? You have? Well, you&#8217;ll be wanting to order some back issues then. Get &#8217;em while they&#8217;re still available.<\/li>\n<li><b>Top 100<\/b> &#8211; The top 100 Mega Drive games of all time, the top 10 Mega CD games, and our fabulous Tips List. What a wonderful section.<\/li>\n<li><b>Subscribe<\/b> &#8211; Subscribe now and you get happiness, eternal life, and a Ferrari. Well, actually you get a copy of MEGA GOLD and an editor&#8217;s newsletter each month, but whaddya want fer nothin?<\/li>\n<li><b>Previews<\/b> &#8211; This month: Eternal Champions, Dragon&#8217;s Lair, The Incredible Hulk, Jammit One On One Basketball, Rage In The Cage, Young Indy, Pele and Greatest Heavyweights.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mega Mouth<\/b> &#8211; Andy Dyer searches through his bulging mail sack in the hope of finding something other than another &#8220;When&#8217;s Street Fighter 12 coming out?&#8221; type letter.<\/li>\n<li><b>Shut Down<\/b> &#8211; And this, dear friends, is the dreadfully inaccurate, and completely speculative look at what we may, or may not, be covering in the next issue. Accurate it ain&#8217;t, but we like to think it&#8217;s mildly amusing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>15 Reviews!<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Terminator CD<\/li>\n<li>Dragon&#8217;s Revenge<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Robotnik&#8217;s Mean Bean Machine<\/li>\n<li>The Lost Vikings<\/li>\n<li>Dune 2<\/li>\n<li>Aero the Acrobat<\/li>\n<li>Boxing Legends of the Ring<\/li>\n<li>F117 Night Storm<\/li>\n<li>Toe Jam and Earl 2<\/li>\n<li>Rolling Thunder 3<\/li>\n<li>Spider-Man Vs. The Kingpin<\/li>\n<li>Round-Up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>More of the Same?<\/b> &#8211; MEGA takes a look at game sequels and asks a couple of industry peeps if they&#8217;re not a bit on the poor side.<\/li>\n<li><b>What&#8217;s In Store For 1994?<\/b> &#8211; The latest Saturn news, plus a rundown of what all the major software houses have planned for next year.<\/li>\n<li><b>Landstalker Solution &#8211; Part One<\/b> &#8211; Introducing the first part of our brilliant solution to the best Mega Drive role-playing game of all time. Part two next month&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: MEGA &#8211; January 1994 MEGA was a U.K. published magazine dedicated to the Sega Genesis or Mega Drive as it was called there along with its various add-ons. Why was the name different anyway? MEGA wasn&#8217;t particularly long lived lasting only about 3 years between October 1992 and October 1994. The January 1994 issue includes: What Are You Playing At? Chances are, you&#8217;ll either already have, or will seriously be thinking about buying, one of the ten most scrumptious games of &#8217;93. What are they? Well, turn to our feature, which starts on page 16, and you&#8217;ll find out. Each of the games has a lovely two-page spread, in which we give you a bit of history on the game, a review, some tips, and various other relevant bits and bobs. And don&#8217;t forge, to find out all about the Saturn Console, and what you can expect to see in 1994, turn to page 66, where our second feature begins. Regulars Mega City &#8211; MEGA asks Sega why sequels are often a disappointment. Plus all the usual hot news from home and abroad. The Charts &#8211; Same old crap, and precisely the same packaging. Yes, it&#8217;s the sad charts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[773,3529,2524,1518,1522],"class_list":["post-23655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-games","category-sega-genesis","tag-genesis","tag-megadrive","tag-retrogaming","tag-sega","tag-sega-genesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}