Nintendo Magazine System Issue 4

NMS Issue 4
Editor	Tim Boone
Managing Editor	Julian Rignall
Deputy Editor	Steve Merrett
Publisher	EMAP
Pages	132
Previous issue	Issue 3
Next issue	Issue 5

This magazine is the January 1993 issue and cost £2.95. It came with a Street Fighter II CD.

News

Ocean tie up Lobo licence.

New Superman game coming from Sunsoft.

Sumo Fighter looking for a publisher on the Gameboy.

Krusty's Super Fun House being converted to the Gameboy.

First Star Fox screenshots.

Ocean releasing Red Nose Day 4 tie-in Sleepwalker.

Graftgold working on Uridium II, Fire and Ice and a mystery football game for the SNES?

Humans heading for the Gameboy courtesy of Mirage.

James Pond II & III heading to the SNES?

MicroProse follow up F-15 Strike Eagle on the NES with F117A Stealth Fighter. They are also working on a Railroad Tycoon conversion for the SNES.

Dr Franken sequel being prepared by Elite.

Leland's Indy Heat zooming onto Super NES real soon.

Storm working on The Lawnmower Man and possible sequel.

NES Empire Strikes Back converted to Gameboy.

Bomberman heading to the SNES.

Previews

The Lost Vikings - SNES

Troddlers - SNES

Eliminator Boat Duel - NES

Batman - NES

Darkwing Duck - Gameboy

Super Volleyball - SNES

Reviews

Main Reviews

Game Title	Publisher	Format	Pres (%)	Grap (%)	Sound (%)	Play (%)	Last (%)	Over (%)
Dropzone	Mindscape	NES	69	79	82	92	82	87
Incredible Crash Dummies, The	Acclaim	Gameboy	92	87	79	95	82	86
Chuck Rock	Core Design	SNES	70	90	83	90	88	89
Blues Brothers, The	Titus	SNES	64	80	87	44	33	47
Desert Strike	Electronic Arts	SNES	88	80	76	81	85	83
David Crane's Amazing Tennis	Absolute	SNES	90	94	93	91	90	91
Defenders of Dynatron City	JVC	NES	73	31	33	29	42	36
Bucky O'Hare	Konami	NES	63	72	70	76	71	72
NHLPA Hockey '93	Electronic Arts	SNES	89	89	84	86	87	84
Alien³	Acclaim	Gameboy	94	63	90	91	89	90
Pushover	Ocean	SNES	76	67	73	80	74	78
Lemmings	Ocean	NES	74	26	67	82	92	85
Lemmings	Ocean	Gameboy	87	88	87	84	87	88
F-15 Strike Eagle	MicroProse	Gameboy	78	46	35	81	87	83
Titus the Fox	Titus	Gameboy	79	87	76	47	39	45
Q*Bert 3	NTVIC	SNES	86	84	85	82	64	70

Comments

Dropzone - 87%

A pure and uncompromising old fashioned arcade blaster which is heavy on the reflexes and light on the brain. Not a game for everyone, but shoot 'em up addicts will absolutely love it.

Incredible Crash Dummies, The - 86%

A playable and varied game slightly let down by its ease and length, but well worth buying nonetheless.

Chuck Rock - 89%

A lush, fun and varied platform game, whose zany humour raises it out of the platform game morass. An excellent conversion.

Blues Brothers, The - 47%

Very poor and sadly disappointing waste of a valuable film license. A serious contender for the Roger Irrelevant award of the decade.

Desert Strike - 83%

A sturdy conversion, of a game past its technical peak, but still featuring plenty to do. If you were waiting for this to arrive, buy it without hesitation.

David Crane's Excellent Tennis - 91%

A great, if not quite the greatest, tennis game. Not only technically interesting, but great to play, too.

Defenders of Dynatron City - 36%

A very disappointing release from a company that should know better. Avoid at all costs.

Bucky O'Hare - 72%

A decent enough platformer which suffers from overpredictable and a wee bit easy.

NHLPA Hockey '93 - 84%

A rather fine Ice Hockey simulation and very addictive game.

Alien³ - 90%

A spiffing game, imaginatively designed and well-programmed, which non-adventure fans should still enjoy.

Pushover - 78%

Pushover is a solid puzzle game concept, let down by lacklustre presentation and options, and its failure to offer any real surprises.

Lemmings - 85%

A stable conversion of a classic game. Spoilt by a few defects but worth a look for die-hard Lemming fans anyway.

Lemmings - 88%

Considering the limitations of hand-held machines, this is a cracking conversion of the classic - provided Lemmings is your thing!

F-15 Strike Eagle - 83%

Remarkably a Gameboy flight sim which works. Although dull to look at, there's more than enough depth in F-15 to keep most people happy.

Titus the Fox - 45%

Your typical, average, run-of-the-mill platform game sved from the pits of absolute despair by the two-player option - if you can find anyone lonesome enough to want to play it.

Q*Bert 3 - 70%

A nice rendition of an old arcade favourite, which is let down by the original version's major fault - a lack of lasting appeal.

Game Styles - Driving

Game Title	Publisher	Format	Pres (%)	Grap (%)	Sound (%)	Play (%)	Last (%)	Over (%)
Excitebike	Nintendo	NES	64	68	65	88	79	84
F1 Exhaust Heat	Ocean	SNES	81	85	81	84	83	83
F1 Race	Nintendo	Gameboy	88	77	69	89	82	88
F-Zero	Nintendo	SNES	88	93	84	94	86	90
Road Fighter	Konami	NES	11	14	10	8	7	9
Rad Racer	Nintendo	NES	62	55	59	84	79	80
RC Pro-Am	Nintendo	NES	83	85	80	91	88	90
Top Racer	Gremlin	SNES	78	83	86	84	79	85
Super Mario Kart	Nintendo	SNES	91	95	93	97	94	95

Tips

Game Guides for:- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - SNES

Super Mario Land 2 - Gameboy

Sim City - SNES

External Links

This issue is available at the Out of Print Archive

Issue Index

NMS Index

Date	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1992										1	2	3
1993	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1994	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
1995	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39
1996	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51
1997	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63
1998	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75
1999	76	77	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87
2000	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99
2001	100	101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108	109	110	111
2002	112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119	120	121	122	123
2003	124	125	126	127	128	129	130	131	132	133	134	135
2004	136	137	138	139	140	141	142	143	144	145	146	147
2005	148	149	150/151	152	153	154	155	156	157	158	159	160
2006	161	162