tg-16.com TurOOPloy Mag,Jzine ArchivE's lEST IAME OF TIE YEAR BESTRPGGAME OF THE YEAR lEST ACTION/ADVENTURE (TURBOGRAFX 16) (ALLSYSTEMS) IAIII! OF TIE YEAR (ALL SYSTEMS) TurboTechnology's WorkingDesign's All IONK COSMIC FANTASY 2 JVC/Lucasfilm's SUPEI STU WIIS It took a lot of guts for a company The CD generation is hare and to take a proven success (Bonk) Cosmic Fantasy 2 for the new Coming just short of winning the and deviate from that past hit, but TurboDuo is a good example of game of the year, SSW really Turbo Technologies did, and ended what other companies will be doing demonstrates what a good game up with a new character that rivals next year. Featuring dozens of producer can do on the Super the original in likability and popular- detailed cinemas, a realistic sound- NES. With superb graphics, perfect ity. Besides this, the game plays ing voice, an original plOI, a huge game play and control, spectacular exceptionally well, has outstanding world 10traverse and a quest that digitized sounds and a long but not graphics and animations and cool will challenge the best of the play- overly difficult quest, SSW is one music. Hopefully TTl will bring ers, this CO literally blows away all of the best cart games ever made. Zonk back for a sequel! of the other RPGs 10date! BEST GAME OF THE YEAR BEST SPORTS GAME OF THE YEAR MOST INNOYATIYE NEW GAME (PORTABLE GAME SYSTEMS) (ALL SYSTEMS) (ALL SYSTEMS) Sega's ElectronicIrts' Interpla,'s SONIC THE NEDGENOG 2 JONN MADDEN '93 OUT OF THIS WORLD Sega comes through again with EA did it again! They took the Actually looking more like one another new Sonic game that best football game ever made and long cinema, OOTW is an adven- doesn't just modify the previous made it better! Madden '93 now ture game that goes beyond the cart. Sonic now takes to the air in a features faster game play, typical blast and run softs. In this hang glider, blasts through loops in smoother animations, updated cart the player has to use his mind a frenzy, and blows through the player stats, a hurry-up, no huddle in addition to his game playing underground caverns in a rail cart! offense, a quarterback stop-the- skills. The overall theme is still a With 4 megabits of power, this clock feature, 8 new teams from quest, but the player is constantly super sequel has Sonic moving so the past, more digitized speech, a being forced to make decisions. fast that the screens fly by so fast split-screen play calling screen and The right choice allows you pro- that you almost get dizzy! It's an all more! Suffice it to say EA knows ceed, while the wrong decision new mega adventure that breathes sports and this version is the best brings death! A refreshing change new life in the Game Gear. football game ever made. Buy it! from the ordinary! BESTGRAPHICS II A .... lEST VIDEO IAIII! SYSTEIi lEST VIDEO IAIIE SEQUEL (ALLGAME SYSTEMS) (ALLGAME SYSTEMS) (ALL"" SYSTEMS) SNK's Nintendo's Nintendo's VIEWPOINT SUPEININTENDO LEGEND OF IELDI 3 Irs no big surprise thet the This was the hardest decision Without a doubt, the most eager- Neo-Geo would win this award. thet the editors had to make. While ly awaited sequel this year was Since their multi-meg games are the Genesis is a phenomenal sys- Zelda 3. After numerous delays the just arcade boards in a huge car- tem, this year had to go to the game finally hit the stores this tridge case, the graphics that they Supar NES because of the huge Spring and once players finally got produce are understandably top amount of quality software that the cart, nobody complained, as notch. Viewpoint is their best to came out. The Genesis on the the game was that good! Unfortu- date, and it features some of the other hand, went for months with- nately Nintendo spoiled everything most intense action ever seen on a out a major title hitting the stores. by packing a walk-through with the TV. This game was so good that The lack of hardware or software game and players blew through the even Martin was impressed! scaling is now hurting the Genesis. game in a matter of days! BEST MUSIC IN A YIDEO GAME BEST NEW PERIPHERAL MOST NUMBER OF SEQUELS (CART/CD GAME SYSTEMS) (All GAME SYSTEMS) (AlL GAME SYSTEMS) SNK's/Turbo Technologies' Sega's Capeom's VIEWPOINT/GITE Of THUNDER SEGI CD MEGIMAN 5 When it comes to music, the No comparison here. Sega has The ever-popular Mega Man is basic concept that the more mem- the system of the future in their back for his fifth game. Perhaps ory a game has the better the Sega CD. With virtually no access this time he will realty get rid of the sound will be, holds true. The nor- time, dual super-fast processors evil Dr. Wily. Nah ... He has to mal 8 meg carts fall short here and working in parallel, full motion come back once more so that the mucho-meg Neo-Geo game - video capability, hardware scaling, Capcom can do a Super Megaman Viewpoint gets the nod for some of rotation, zoom, and fading of 6 for the Super NES. That would the coolest music ever to appear in sprites, the Saga CD/Genesis be cool as perhaps then Capcom a cart. In the CD arena, Turbo combo is the system to watch in U.S.A. could run a contest like Tech's pack-in, Gate of Thunder, 1993! Best of all, the system is real Capcom of Japan did this last sum- blows away anything ever done in as you can go to the store and buy mer. Our players would then have a home video game. This disc has it NOW! No vaporware promises a chance to send in names for the to be heard to be believed! as the big N is starting to circulate. next batch of super bad robots! tg-16.com TurOOPloyMagazine Archives BEST YIDEO GAME ENDING HOnEST VIDEO GAME BAlE lEST LICENSE OF THE YEAR (ALLSYSTEMS) (ALLSYSTEMS) (ALLSYSTEMS) Capcom's C.pcom'IISega'1 Konami'1/Sega's STREET FIGNTER 2 STREET FIGHTER 2/STREETS BATMAN RETURNS OF RAGE 2 With an ending for each of the The blockbuster movie this last Our editors were evenly divided characters plus additional special summer - Batman Returns, wins on this category. Half loved Chun endings for the different difficulty this prize. Sega and Konami get Li (especially in red!) in SF 2 while levels plus even more extra special special credit for putting their faith the other half thought that Blaze endings for the way you play level (and dollars) behind this flick. was really exceptional in Sega's seven, Capcom's Street Fighter 2 While Batman was practically guar- new Streets of Rage 2. Since it's a wins this award. Now if they only anteed to tum a profit, the game tie, why don't you write in to tell us would have saved the memory companies could just as easily which lady you think is the hottest used for all these ending and put it have been the poor souls that video game babe! We'll announce into a CE boss option everybody backed the not so spectacular the winner in a couple of months! would have been happy. RoboCop3! HonEST NEW CHARACTER YIDEO GAME BABES BEST MOVIE TO GAME IN A YIDEO GAME TOO HOT FOR THE U.S. (All GAME SYSTEMS) (All GAME SYSTEMS) (All FOREIGN GAME SYSTEMS) JVC/Lucasfilm's Sega's NEe Avenue's SUPER STIR WIRS TAILSin SONICTHE HEDGEHOG2 DRAGON KNIGNT 2 Everybody has seen the Star Wars movies and now with the first The masters at Sega have really The Japanese players definitely picture translated to Nintendo's come through with a winner in have a different attitude as to what Super system, JVC/Lucasfilm has Sonic's sidekick - Miles Prower can and can't be shown in a video demonstrated that games can (say it real fast). Not only:is he as game. Female characters nude actually be created which will fol- cute as Sonic but he actually from the waist up aren't uncommon low the movie in great detail. In this serves a major purpose in the in Japanese games as this one super soft the action sequences game by allowing a second person (almost) shows. With screen are spectacular as are the depic- to play simultaneously (in the split- graphics presently not very tion of the characters and their ani- screen mode) with the first player. detailed, it's not a big deal, but mations. With games this good, Hopefully Saga will write Tails into what will happen when motion how much better can the CD ver- their new Sega CD version. video comes to the CD games? sion get? MOST LAWSUITS 43 million dollars. NIce move Sega. That's 36 million bucks you could (ALLGAMECOMPANIU1 have put into game development and if you did, alt 01 us players Sega would now be playing Sega games SEN OF AMERICA rather than Super Nlntendo cartsi Last year it seemed thet Ninten- do was going out and suing every- body they could (and they did). This year, while Nintendo did get in """••• the spotlight with the big suit they BEST VIDEO lAME won (they finally won onel) against RUMOR Atari, it was Sega's tum to go after (ALLGAMECOMPANIES) some of the companies that were causing them problems.