THE TEAM SEGA® NEWSLETTER • JAN. '89, No. 5 REGGIE JACKSON "BASEBALL! Hard-hitting ballpark action! |M ' 91 ON dlVd aovisod s n xnna From Thunder Blade to Monopoly, we've got a huge selection for the serious Sega fanatic. Think Sega, think Toys "R" Us. Not only are we the largest retailer of Sega systems, but our shelves are stocked with loads of game cartridges, available every day at incredibly low prices. Check us out^for yourself! THE WORLD'S BIGGEST TOY STORE Over 350 Toys "R" Us stores coast to coast, check your local directory for the store nearest you! We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, OPTIMA, AMERICAN EXPRESS and DISCOVER cards. Prices effective U.S.A. only. appy New Year! I hope you all to cross a pixe-' had a super Sega® Holiday! Are lated screen, H your fingers a little tired just like the from playing your new games? If so, movie. give 'em a stretch and get ready REGGIE JACI? because it's 1989; time for a whole new SON™ BASEBALL-The hot- season of Sega fun and games. Just test video baseball game I've ever take a look at what's coming down the played. Reggie is a modern legend (and video highway for you this year. a real decent dude). This game does R-TYPE™ -This game is so close to him justice. You'll love it! the hit arcade version that you'll be That's just in this issue. There's scanning the night skies, looking for even more on the way like the adven- attack ships from the Bydo Empire ture role-play game Y's (say "ies ") and (anybody know where that is?) a hot new SegaScope ™ 3-D, riit: GOLVELLIUS™: VALLEY OF POSEIDON WARS™ 3-D. It's action- DOOM -It's adventure role-play with packed ocean combat with an optional password-save that beats the pants off 2-D mode, so everyone can play and the game with a weird-sounding girl's watch. I'm major psyched! name. (I'm a Have a poet and didn't good read and even know it!) CONTENTS stay tuned for RAMBO® the next issue. III—unholster 4 Sega® Input Remember 6 Drawing Contest your light pha- 8 R-Type™ ... Don't say ser and take on 9 Rambo®lll the N-word! some of the 10 Golvellius™ See Ya, baddest com- 11 Reggie Jackson™ Baseball mandoes ever 12 Sega Game Checklist 12 Coming Soon 14 Scoreboard JohnSauer Sega Team 14 Sega Products Order Form Big Cheese NAME THE SEGA NEWSLETTER CONTEST Last issue we told you about our contest to rename the Sega Newsletter. We've received a ton of entries from you gamers, including a lot who said they liked the newsletter's title just the way it is: SEGA. We're keeping the contest open until next issue, so if you think of a hot new name, send it in. If we pick your entry, we'll send you a free Sega hat, T-shirt, and bag! * Send your entries by February 1,1989, to: *In case of tie, prizes limited to first 5 entries received. Sega Name Contest, 573 Forbes Blvd., So. San Francisco, CA 94080. towards the left until you dis- cover that there is an open passage way that leads into the elevator shaft." Scott Kravitz Staten Island, NY "In Stage 5 (the first bonus the very last. I thought the stage) of SPACE HARRIER,™ articles were great, and the try to hit less than five trees. If INPUT illustrations were fantastic. you do, you'll jump off Uriah Last month I ordered the Top with no bonus points 10 Video Tape from the maga- awarded. However, imme- MAIL BAfl zine. I received it last week diately after Uriah is no longer and thought the graphics of on screen, an aircraft will the upcoming Sega games Dear Sega, appear in the upper right cor- were great. Thank you. ner of the screen and fly to the I am a Sega fan who is very Jesus Medina Wilmington, CA excited about getting new opposite screen corner. If you Look for the Sega "Games Pre- newsletter issues. I look for- shoot this aircraft, you will be view II" video tape featured in awarded 10 million bonus ward to every issue because this issue!-Ed. each issue gets better with points and one extra Space Send comments to: Harrier life." more tips and reviews. I Mail Bag, Sega of America, Inc., would really look forward to 573 Forbes Blvd., Stephen Krajewski-Glendale, AZ So. San Francisco, CA 94080. short and in-depth reviews of "In MAZE HUNTER™ 3-D, all of your hot, new games, any time before you get your especially DOUBLE TlPS FROM iron bar, you can get a free DRAGON,™ THUNDER man when you let a maze BLADE,™ and new sports THE TEAM monster get right in front of games. Everyone agrees: the bar. When you pick the Sega has the best games and "In OUT RUN,™ when you're bar up, it will test fire, killing graphics around! Keep the going to shift from low to high the monster and giving you a new games coming! Sega gear, take your finger off But- free man." rules! ton #2 and then pull back into Ruben Valle Houston, TX MattLorenz Katy,TX high gear. You'll get to top * "In ALEX KIDD IN MIRACLE Dear Sega, speed quicker." '-- WORLD,™ try to get as many I enjoy the fantastic Sega sys- Jonathan Hodgman'Syosset, NY question-mark blocks as you tem. I am very proud to have "In ZILLION,™ as you get fur- can, even if you know it's a such a high-tech piece of ther into the game, you will k ghost, because machinery. The colors, notice that sometimes, after later in the graphics, and sounds are you open a door to the left, k game for smashing. I spend most of my there is a dead erid with an I every ghost days and nights playing hit elevator shaft next to it. All JH released, games like ALEX KIDD™ and you have to do is you'll QUARTET.™ I'm very fasci- shoot nated when I read the Sega magazine. In future issues I hope to see more game intro- ductions. Thanks. Arvin Ocampo San Diego, CA Dear Sega, Last week I received the Sega magazine. I read the whole thing from the first page to receive an extra guy or a ring." years I have wondered where Chris Colatos Schaumburg, IL Sega got its name. Could you Send comments and game tips to: tell me where they got the Tips from the Team, Sega of America, Inc., 573 Forbes Blvd., name from? So. San Francisco, CA 94080. Steven Weinberg Brownsville,TX A: The name Sega comes from a combination of the SEGA SECRETS words SErvice GAmes. Q: How do you get the ruby DOUBLE DRAGON™: Here's and the beU in WONDER BOY a way to take out two of the SPACE HARRIER™ 3-D: There IN MONSTER LAND ™ ? Black Warriors at once. Wait are all sorts of hidden features John Passki New Brighton, MN until they are almost on you. in this wild game! To access They will be so close that they them, first you must make the A: When in Level 11, you'll touch each other. Then let fly score board. Then use the come upon a fortune-teller. with a leaping kick. You'll get Control Pad to enter "three" She will ask you if you want both of them at the same for 3-D on/off, "level" to make the Ruby or the BeU. The BeU time. Do this three or four the game easier or harder, helps direct you through the times and you will have them! and "sound" for the sound- "Labyrinth of No End," and check mode. If you enter the the Ruby wiU help you in the same number series as you fight against the Dragon at did in the first Space Harrier, the end of Level 12. you'll get a secret message! Q: In FANTASY ZONE II,™ in front of the red warp gate, I found something that looks like a clock. What does it do? Brandon Blomquist-Gonzales, CA A: The clock in FANTASY ZONE II appears from time to POWER STRIKE™: There are time in different levels. If you two things to remember to have this clock in possession, get farther in Power Strike. you can keep using your pres- The first is to get a number ent weapon for a longer period of time. Just touch the weapon, then keep picking up ASK THE as many of that same number clock when you come as you can. This will advance SEGA MASTER across it. your timer to the beginning * Q: In BLACK BELT,™ is there and will give you more power. Q: In GREAT BASEBALL ™ a bonus round, or 7th The second is to keep picking on page 10 of the instruction chapter? up the yellow power cap- book, it says you can choose Matthew Popalo Medford, MA sules. This will double, then catchers. I can't seem to do A: Yes, after you've beaten triple the power of your pri- this. What is the problem? Wang. Before the screen mary laser. Also, there is a Danny Gilliland Hixson, TN turns red, press Up-Down- ten-life continue mode hidden A: The "choose your Left-Right, and at the same in the title screen. You can time press Buttons One and find it by pressing Down, catchers" instructions on page 10 of the GREAT BASE- Two.