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Cover Story: Preview '89 (Want to see what's coming down the pipeline for your favorite systems? Here you go!) Bad Dudes (NES) Heavy Barrel (NES) Rampage (NES) Robocop (NES) Super Hang-On (NES) Airwolf (NES) Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II (NES) WWF Wrestlemania (NES) Qix (NES) Operation Wolf (NES) Sky Shark (NES) Hoops (NES) Goal! (NES) RoboWarrior (NES) Defender of the Crown (NES) Metal Gear (NES) Skate or Die (NES) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) Q*Bert (NES) Gyruss (NES) Silent Service (NES) Track and Field II (NES) The Adventures of Bayou Billy (NES) The California Raisins (NES / Cancelled) DuckTales (NES) Mega Man 2 (NES) Strider (NES) "Mindscape Games" Magic Johnson's Fast Break (NES) Taboo (NES) P.O.W. - Prisoner of War (NES) Departments: Insert Coin (Editor Steve Harris hypes the coming video game lineup for 1989) Video Game Top Ten (A list of the ten titles keeping the EGM folks burning the midnight oil). Interface: Letters to the Editor (Readers write, editors respond) At the Arcades (A preview of Atari's new Hard Drivin' cabinet) Gaming Gossip (Quarterman divulges industry rumours about Tengen, FCI, Hasbro, Mattel, and other dishy subjects) 16-Bit Sizzler (The TurboGrafx-16, Sega Genesis, Konix Slipstream and Super Famicom are coming!) Dare to Compare (The editors pit John Elway's Quarterback against Tecmo Bowl in a battle for gridiron supremacy!) Amusement Players Association International Scoreboard (High scores submitted from homes and arcades world-wide!) Game Over (Coming attractions for next issue!) Next Wave (previews): Mega Man 2 (NES) Super Sprint (NES) Guerrilla War (NES) Vindicators (NES) Strider (NES) Hydlide (NES) WWF Wrestlemania (NES) Walter Payton Football (SMS) Lord of the Sword (SMS) Poseidon Wars 3-D (SMS) Press Start (gaming and industry news): Beeshu controllers Tiger LCD handhelds Pro-Play Arcade Cabinet for NES N.A.R.C. (Arcade) Cinemaware's Defender of the Crown and The Three Stooges coming to NES The Home Front (console reviews): 1943 (NES) Racket Attack (NES) Ultima: Exodus (NES) Bubble Bobble (NES) Bump 'n' Jump (NES) Y's (SMS) Rastan (SMS) Time Soldiers (SMS) Hat Trick (7800) Game of the Month (U.S. National Video Game Team picks their top choice): Tetris [Tengen] (NES) Logon (personal computer reviews): F-19 Stealth Fighter (IBM) Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders (IBM) Hybris (Amiga) Double Dragon (C64) Sword of Sodan (Amiga) Offshore Warrior (Amiga) Ads (in order of appearance): Tengen Games: Gauntlet (NES) / Pac-Man (NES) / RBI Baseball (NES) / Tetris (NES) Tradewest Games: John Elway's Quarterback (NES) / Double Dragon (NES) Acclaim Games: WWF Wrestlemania (NES) / Rambo (NES) / Airwolf (NES) / Star Voyager (NES) / Wizards & Warriors (NES) / 3-D World Runner (NES) / Winter Games (NES) / Tiger-Heli (NES) FCI Game Counseling Hotline RoboWarrior (NES) Electronic Gaming Monthly's Great Game Giveaway contest Hard Drivin' (Arcade) Xenophobe (NES) TAXAN Videodiction newsletter TAXAN Games: Star Soldier (NES) / Mystery Quest (NES) / Fist of the North Star (NES) / Mappy Land (NES) Phantasy Star (SMS) Thunder Blade (SMS) Beeshu computer peripherals Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine subscription SNK Games: Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road (NES) / Iron Tank: The Invasion of Normandy (NES) Beeshu joysticks and controllers (NES) Notable Stuff: Includes a full-size poster for FCI's Mag Max (NES). There's no real criteria for explaining how the Top 10 Games were ordered the way they were, or who was responsible for picking them in the first place. A letter column in the first issue? Well, all the reader response comes from the original EGM '89 Buyer's Guide, which is kind of like their Issue 0. One lucky winner in EGM's Great Game Giveaway contest takes home more than 50 NES games. Tecmo Bowl blows John Elway's Quarterback off the field, as it should. The TAXAN Videodiction newsletter is formatted to look like an article from the magazine, though it's completely a production of TAXAN's in-house ad team. Sneaky, sneaky, guys... This early in the game, EGM's juggling both console and home computer software. They'll cut the home software aspect to go console-only before too long. A subscription to EGM runs $19.95 for 12 issues, according to this issue's subscription ad. The Konix Slipstream (later renamed the Konix Multisystem) was cancelled after the company ran out of money. EGM editor Donn Nauert sure gets around...he has high scores submitted to the APA across multiple platforms from multiple cities in Texas and California.