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  • GamePro (October 1993)

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    Source: GamePro – Issue Number 51 – October 1993

    There were tons of video game magazines from the late 1980s through the late 1990s. GamePro wasn’t my favorite (I preferred EGM and VG&CE) but there is no doubt that it was one of the most popular. The October 1993 issue includes the following:

    • Letters from the GamePros – The GamePro editors explain their rating system.
    • The Mail – Letters from readers with comments and questions on video game violence, playing NES games on the SNES, taking the Turbo Duo on the road, converting Japanese RPGs, obtaining back issues, choosing games to create strategy guides for, baseball games, and more.
    • Cutting Edge – A detailed look at the upcoming Atari Jaguar, including some of the first games. It’s a shame Atari didn’t put more effort into games development and courting 3rd party developers. This could have been a great system.
    • Special Feature: Hot at the Arcades – Part 2 of a Slam Masters Strategy Guide, an arcade wrestling game from Capcom that plays a bit like Street Fighter II.
    • Role-Player’s Realm – Hints and strategies for RPGs including Shining Force for the Genesis, The Seventh Saga for the Super NES, Final Fantasy Legend III for the Game Boy, and Defenders of Oasis for the Game Gear.
    • Special Feature: 3D0 Games – A look at some of the first 3DO games including Battlechess, Crash ‘ Burn, Intelliplay Football, Mad Dog McCree, Oceans Below, Out of This World, San Diego Zoo, Total Eclipse, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
    • Cover Feature: Super Street Fighter II – It seemed like there were endless variations of Street Fighter II. Street Fighter II: The New Challengers was released after Turbo Street Fighter II Champion Edition and its main changes include four new fighters plus new and improved moves for existing characters.
    • Special Feature: Disney’s Aladdin – Aladdin was near the pinnacle of 2D gaming on 16-bit systems in terms of graphics, animation, sound and music. This is a preview of Aladdin on the Genesis.
    • Special Feature: Star Wars – A look at recent and upcoming Star Wars games, including Super Empire Strikes Back (SNES), Rebel Assault (Sega CD), and Star Wars (Game Gear). Plus, a behind the scenes look at the making of some of these games.

    • ProReviews
      • Genesis – Reviews of Aero the Acro-Bat, Haunting Starring Polterguy, Dashin’ Desperadoes, Dinosaurs for Hire, Gauntlet IV, The Adventures of B.O.B.; Plus previews of Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition, Robocop Vs. Terminator, Robocop III, Pink Panther: Pink Goes to Hollywood, and Sonic Spinball
      • Sega CD – Reviews of AH-3 Thunderstrike and Spider-Man vs. Kingpin plus a preview of Stellar-Fire
      • SNES – Reviews of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, SimAnt, Legend, Battle Cars, Super Aquatic Games, Incredible Crash Dummies, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Mr. Nuts; Plus previews of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighter, ActRaiser 2, Captain America and the Avengers, and Cliffhanger
      • Nintendo – Reviews of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Mario is Missing!
      • Neo Geo – A strategy guide for Samurai Showdown
      • Game Boy– Reviews of DuckTales 2, Ring Rage, Lemmings, Tumble Pop, and WWF: King of the Ring
      • Game Gear – Reviews of WWF Steel Cage Challenge, Strider 2, Cave Dude, and Off the Wall
      • Lynx – Review of Gordo 106

    • Overseas ProSpects – A look at Jim Powers for the Super NES and Genesis.
    • The Sports Page – Reviews and previews of sorts games including NHL Hockey ’94 (Genesis and SNES), Legends of the Ring (Genesis and SNES), Riddick Bowe Boxing (SNES), Evander Holyfield (Game Gear), Madden NFL ’94 (Genesis and SNES), Football Fury (SNES), Top Gear 2 (SNES), and Nigel Mansell’s World Championship Racing (Genesis, NES, Game Boy). Plus news about upcoming sports releases.
    • GamePro Lab Report – A look at the Dual Turbo wireless controllers for the SNES and Genesis, the Naki Pro Control Pad for the Genesis, and more.
    • Short ProShots – Brief looks at Formula 1 World Championship (Genesis), Prince of Persia (Genesis), Pit-Fighter II (Genesis), WWF Royal Rumble (Genesis), Super Baseball 2020 (Genesis), Dune II (Genesis), Wizzy ‘n’ Lizzy (Genesis), Puggsy (Genesis), Incredible Hulk (Genesis), Bubba ‘n’ Sticks (Genesis), Microcosm (Sega CD), EA Sports Soccer (Genesis), The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (Genesis), F-1 Pole Position (SNES), Lester the Unlikely (SNES), NBA Showdown (SNES), Redline: F-1 Racer (SNES), Super Battletank 2 (SNES), Turn and Burn (SNES), Super Putty (SNES), Super Off Road: The Baja (SNES), Kirby’s Pinball Land (Game Boy), John Madden Duo CD Football (Duo), James Pond II (Game Gear), and more.
    • S.W.A.T.Pro – Hints, tips, codes and passwords for Alien 3 (Super NES), Mario is Missing! (SNES), Time Gal (Sega CD), Spy vs. Spy (Game Boy), Muhammad Ali’s Heavyweight Boxing (Genesis), The Lost Vikings (SNES), Side Arms (Duo), WWF Royal Rumble (SNES), Panic Restaurant (NES), Green Dog (Genesis), Mutant League Football (Genesis), R.B.I. BAseball (Genesis), Bomberman ’93 (Duo), Gates of Thunder (Duo), Mousetrap Hotel (Game Boy), Cotton (Duo), and more.
    • GameBusters: X-Men (Genesis) – A more detailed strategy guide for X-Men on the Genesis.
    • ProNews – AT&T acquires Sierra Network, new SNES bundle featuring Super Mario All-Stars for $149, a new handheld video game featuring barcodes, Double Dragon: The Movie coming soon, Pitfall Harry: The Mayan Adventure delayed, and more.

    …and more!


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  • Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton 

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    Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton (generally just referred to as Cotton) is an arcade shooter released in 1991 that defined a new sub-genre (the cute ’em up though I don’t know anybody who actually says that). In 1993 a port was released for the TurboGrafx-CD. This version, particularly the U.S. release, is very rare and demands exorbitant prices on eBay. It was also released on the PlayStation in 1999 but only in Japan. The prices for that one are not much better.

    In Cotton, the player controls a young witch on a broomstick. Fans of arcade shooters, anime and extremely cute games all love this one so I suppose that explains its relative rarity and high demand. As far as shooters go, it is not really exceptional and got mostly average reviews but the uniqueness adds a certain appeal. You would think that the publisher just would have released more of them…

    There was also a much more limited Neo Geo Pocket Color port, available only in Japan and again very expensive. There have been various spinoffs and follow-ups including a sequel (Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams). Cotton 2 was released for the Sega Saturn but once again it is quite expensive if you are looking to buy it today. It seems like these games would be good Virtual Console candidates given their expense but as of today you’ll have to lay out the cash or look into emulation options.

    The above screen shots are from the 1999 PlayStation release of Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton.

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    Release Date: 1991

    Platforms: Arcade, TurboGrafx-CD, Sharp X68000, PlayStation1, Neo Geo pocket color

    Genre: shooter

    Developer: Success

    Darkness has surrounded the fairies world, and with that, the prism that brought joy and life to the land doesn’t work anymore. The fairy queen told Silk, a young fairy, to find some help and get the seven magical candies, Willows, that you need to fix the prism. Silk finds Cotton, a witch who loves Willows, and thanks to that, the fairy is able to trick her into the adventure.

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  • GamePro (June 1993)

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    Source: GamePro – Issue Number 47 – June 1993

    At 164 pages, the June 1993 had to be somewhere near the peak for GamePro and there were a lot of systems to cover then. 8-bit systems were still being covered (the NES), 16-bit systems were being covered, CD based add-ons were being covered and multiple portables among other things. This issue includes:

    • Letters from the GamePros – GamePros’s monthly editorial. This month the subject is Virtual Reality.
    • The Mail – Letters from readers about virtual reality, mystery zones in Sonic 2, fear for the future of the NES, video game violence and more.
    • Cutting Edge – Article about the Hornet-1 F/A-18 Hornet flight simulator used by pilots.
    • Hot at the Arcades – Focusing on Capcom’s Slam Masters with inevitable comparisons to Street Fighter 2.
    • Special Feature – Covering all things Battletoads related including Battletoads/Double Dragon for the NES, Battletoads on the Game Boy plus other media such as the Double Dragon and Battletoads comics and the Double Dragon animated series.
    • Special Feature: Ecco the Dolphin Strategy Guide, Part 2 – Part 2 of a strategy guide for Ecco the Dolphin on the Sega Genesis.
    • Special Feature: Yoshi’s Cookies – A look at a Yoshi themed puzzle game for both the Super Nintendo, NES and Game Boy.
    Table of Contents for the June 1993 issue of GamePro
    • ProReviews – GamePro’s review section covering the Genesis, Sega CD, Super NES, NES, Turbo Duo/TurboGrafx-16, Game Boy and Game Gear. Games Reviewed inlude Rolling Thunder 3 (Genesis), Sorcerer’s Kingdom (Genesis), Jeopardy (Genesis), Championship Pro-Am (Genesis), Chase HQ II (Genesis), The Terminator (Sega CD), Batman Returns (Sega CD), WWF: Royal Rumble (SNES), Aliens vs. Predator (SNES), Super Widget (SNES), Run Saber (SNES), The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (SNES), Cool World (SNES), Sonic Blast Man (SNES), Super James Pond (SNES), Mario Is Missing! (SNES), Kawasaki Challenge (SNES), Lethal Weapon (SNES), Bignose Freaks Out (NES), SimEarth (Turbo Duo SuperCD), Magical Chase (TG16), Star Trek: The Next Generation (Game Boy), Darkwing Duck (Game Boy), Q*Bert (Game Boy), Super Ninja Boy (Game Boy), WordZap (Game Boy), and Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Game Gear). Also included are previews for Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (Genesis) and Splatterhouse 3 (Genesis).
    • Special Feature: Super Star Wars ProStrategy, Part 1 – The first part of a strategy guide for Super Star Wars on the Super Nintendo. I remember really wanting this game and it was a beautiful game but man was it ever hard. I never finished it…or really made it very far i don’t think.
    • Overseas ProSpects – Previews of game released in other countries that may or may not ever have made it to North America. Games (and systems) looked at include Populous II (Super Famicom), the Duo-R which was the successor to the Turbo Duo, Super Chinese World 2 (Super Famicom), Super Back To The Future 2 (Super Famicom), Darius 3 (Super Famicom), Noigear (Super Famicom), and Pop ‘N’ Twin Bee (Super Famicom).
    • The Sports Page – News, reviews and previews of sports games for all systems, this month including reviews of Hardball III for the Sega Genesis, RBI ’93 for the Sega Genesis, Bases Loaded 4 for the NES, an interview with Tony La Russa about Tony La Russa Baseball, and more.
    Table of Contents for the June 1993 issue of GamePro (Continued)
    • Hardware Helpers – This column covers various peripherals and hardware add-ons for video game systems. This month, devices covered include The Miracle Piano Teaching System for the Sega Genesis, various rechargeable battery systems by Naki, including the Naki rechargeable battery system for the Game Boy, the Solar Pak which is a solar powered version, The Turbo Twins which is a version for the Game Gear, The Turbo Twins for the Turbo Express, the Atari Lynx Power Pak for the Atari Lynx and more.
    • Short ProShots – Short previews of upcoming games, this month including Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis, Rebel Assault and Thunder Hawk for the Sega CD, WarpSpeed, Mig-29, RocketKnight, Bubsy, Davis Cup Tennis, Dune II, Robocop vs. Terminator, Star Cruiser and Shining Force for the Genesis, Aero the Acrobat, PTO: Pacific Theater of Operations, Cool Spot, Grand Prix One, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Last Action Hero, Mega Man, Super Empire Strikes Back, and Obitus for the Super NES, World Cup Soccer for the Game Gear, Spider-Man 3: Invasion of the Spider-Slayers for the Game Boy, Jurassic Park for the NES.
    • S.W.A.T.Pro – GamePro’s strategy section this month includes tips for Shadow of the Beast (Genesis), Wonder Dog (Sega CD), Chuck Rock (Sega CD), Prince of Persia (SNES), Super MarioKart (SNES), Battleclash (SNES), Hook (SNES), RoboCop 2 (Game Boy), Super Mario Land 2 (Game Boy), Basketbrawl (Lynx), Ecco the Dolphin (Genesis), Batman Returns (Genesis), Paper Boy 2 (SNES), Street Fighter II (SNES), and Sewer Shark (Sega CD).
    • GameBusters: Wing Commander (SNES) – Tips for the final mission of Wing Commander for the Super Nintendo.
    • ProNews – News for June 1993 includes the impending release of Street Fighter II Turbo for the Super Famicom in Japan, virtual reality news, the announcement of a Mutant League sports product line by EA, new deals by EA with Shaquille O’Neal and Bill Walsh, Castlevania coming to the Genesis, upcoming releases of Jurassic Park, Dennis the Menace and Addams Family 2 games, Game Boy Game Genie legal news, and more.
    • Ad Index

    …and more!


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