Game Players Issue 77

READER MAIL


INFO TRAK (News section)

-Questions about Saturn sales figures
-Steve Race leaves Sony
-Mario and Final Fantasy on Ultra 64
-The "Sega Unplugged" media/PR event
-Sega buying 3DO?
-Sega leaving the hardware business?
-Sega announces the Nomad system
-Walter Day illness/Twin Galaxies news


HIT LISTS (Top 10 charts)


GAME GOSSIP

-Industry reaction to Ultra 64 development kits
-Mario RPG
-Long Yoshi's Island delay related to Rare and Donkey Kong Country
-Saturn Virtua Fighter 2 being rushed?
-Portable SNES and NES
-Matsushita buying Sega?
-Sega Neptune being re-worked?



IN RELATED NEWS...(Non-gaming specific content. Music, comics, movies, internet, and other general pop-culture happenings. Some related to video games, some not. Two pages in length.)



PREVIEWS

Virtua Fighter 2 (Saturn)
Sega Rally (Saturn)
Virtua Cop (Saturn)
Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (Arcade)
Toshinden (Saturn)
T-Mek (32X)
High Velocity (Saturn)
DeathKeep (3DO)
Criticom (Saturn)
Center Ring Boxing (Saturn)
Wing Arms (Saturn)
Killing Time (3DO)
Blade Force (3DO)
Earthworm Jim 2 (Genesis)


IN THE WORKS (Big list of all known games in development across all major platforms, and their estimated release dates)


JAPANESE PREVIEWS

-Super Mario RPG (Super Famicom)
-J.B. Harold Blue Chicago Blues (Saturn)
-Horned Owl (Playstation)
-Winning Eleven (Playstation)



REVIEWS

-Wipeout (Playstation)
-The Mask (SNES)
-Cyber Speedway (Saturn)
-Scooby Doo Mystery (Genesis)
-Virtua Fighter Remix (Saturn)
-Mortal Kombat 3 (Playstation)
-Virtua Fighter (32X)
-Daedulus Encounter (3DO)
-Novastorm (Playstation)
-3D Lemmings (Playstation)
-Ultra Vortek (Jaguar)
-D (3DO)
-Zoop (SNES)
-Panzer General (3DO)
-Secret of Evermore (SNES)
-Discworld (Playstation)
-Dark Legend (Saturn)
-Ballz (3DO)
-Off World Interceptor (Saturn)
-Light Crusader (Genesis)
-Street Fighter: The Movie (Saturn)
-ESPN Extreme (Playstation)
-Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos (SNES)
-Destruction Derby (Playstation)
-Batman Forever (SNES)



GP SPORTS (Reviews and previews of sports games)

Reviews:
-NHL All-Star Hockey (Saturn)
-Prime Time NFL (Genesis)
-Power Serve 3-D Tennis (Playstation)
-Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition (SNES)

Previews:
-PGA Tour (Playstation)
-NHL Face Off (Playstation)
-NHL 96 (3DO & Playstation)
-NFL GameDay (Playstation)



NOW PLAYING (A big list of recent reviews, containing the scores the games received, and a brief summary of the original review)

-Included in this section, is a brief guide on how to buy games through the mail.



ARCADES (Overviews of recently released Arcade games, previews of games in development, as well as general Arcade industry news and gossip)

Games featured:

-WWF Wrestlemania
-Rail Chase 2
-Virtua Cop 2
-Rave Racer
-MagBall



CHEAT SHEETS (strategy guides, cheat codes, move lists, and reader mail questions related to all three)

Guides and Move-lists:

-WeaponLord (Genesis/SNES)
-Mega Man VII (SNES)
-Shinobi Legions (Saturn)
-Tekken (Playstation)


Game Slayers (reader questions):

-Alone in the Dark (3DO)
-Final Fantasy III (SNES)
-True Lies (Genesis/SNES
-Eternal Champions (Sega CD)


Code Breakers (the cheat code section):
-Mega Man VII (SNES)
-Triple Play 96' (Genesis)
-Slam N' Jam (3DO)
-Panzer Dragoon (Saturn)
-Battle Arena Toshinden (Playstation)
-NBA Live 95' (Genesis)
-Blackthorne (32X)
-Demon's Crest (SNES)
-Barkley: Shut-Up and Jam 2 (Genesis)
-Wario Blast (Game Boy)
-World Series Baseball 95' (Genesis)
-Robotica (Saturn)

Game Genie codes:
-Stargate (Genesis)
-Sonic & Knuckles (Genesis)
-Madden 95' (Genesis)
-Clay Fighter 2 (SNES)
-Super Return of the Jedi (SNES)


BACK TALK (The last non-ad page of the magazine. Game Players style comedy, and a reader contest.)