VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (June 1990)

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Cover of the June 1990 issue of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment


VideoGames & Computer Entertainment was my favorite video game magazine of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some of the key people responsible for the original Electronic Games magazine were involved with VG&CE. It eventually evolved into Tips & Tricks which wasn't really my cup of tea. The June 1990 issue of VG&CE includes:

Features

  • Total Recall: Acclaim Brings Arnold Schwarzenegger's Film Role to Video-Game Screens - A detailed look at this NES game based on the movie of the same name. Like most licensed games, this one wasn't great though I suppose it was better than some. It definitely has the nostalgia factor going for it.

  • Behind the Scenes at the Nintendo World Championships in Dallas - The Nintendo World Championship had to be just about the height of the NES era. It was sort of a case of life imitating art as The Wizard had just been released in theaters the year before.

  • Batman Strategy Guide, Part I - The first part of a detailed strategy guide for Batman: The Video Game for the NES. While licensed games are pretty poor the vast majority of the time, this one bucks the trend and was actually a solid game. The game and the movie are probably still my Batman favorites.

  • In Search of the Evil Place: A Player's Guide to Faxanadu, Part 2 - The second part of a detailed strategy guide for this classic NES adventure game.

  • Computer Country Club - An overview of available golf and tennis games. Some of the golf games looked at here include Accolade's Mean 18, Hole-In-One (miniature golf), Mini-Putt, World Tour Golf, World Class Leaderboard, Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf, Table Tennis Simulation, Serve & Volley, and others.

  • Computer-Game Strategies - Brief strategy guides for Double Dragon II (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM PC), Populous (Amiga, IBM PC), and Space Harrier (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM PC).




Table of Contents from the June 1990 issue of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment


Reviews

  • Video-Game Reviews - Reviews of Heroes of the Lance (NES) - (while I loved the Gold Box series of D&D games, I thought this action oriented game was pretty terrible), Astyanax (NES) - (I actually didn't care for this one much though it got good reviews), Ninja Gaiden II (NES), Starship Hector (NES), Super C (NES), Pat Riley's Slammin' Jammin' Basketball (Sega Genesis), Neutopia (TurboGrafx-16), Slap Shot (Sega Master System), and Ghostbusters (Sega Genesis).

  • Computer-Game Reviews - Reviews of Tank (Spectrum Holobyte for the IBM PC), Hoyle's Book of Games (Sierra On-Line for the IBM PC), License to Kill (Domark/Broderbund for the Amiga, Atari ST, IBM PC, and Commodore 64), Sword of the Samurai (Microprose for the IBM PC), The Third Courier (Accolade for the IBM PC), Space Rogue (by Origin for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and IBM PC - I always wanted this one), It Came From the Desert (by Cinemaware for the Amiga, Atari ST, IBM PC), Sands of Fire (by Three-sixty Software for the IBM PC and Macintosh), and Trivial Pursuit (by Parker Brothers for the IBM PC).

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