| In June 1988 Computer Entertainer reported from the Summer Consumer Electronics Show that Capcom USA had discontinued 1942, with Trojan and Section Z, to make way for new titles. | CES report, Capcom USA., Inc. | Magazine |
| At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show of June 1988 in Chicago, Computer Entertainer reported under the heading Taito Software, Inc., Taito was emphasizing two new titles in its booth, Operation Wolf and Bubble Bobble, the latter starring "a very cute little dinosaur character" who climbs and jumps through more than 100 screens and captures enemies in bubbles. | Summer CES report, openingSummer CES report, Taito Software, Inc.Summer CES report, Taito Software, Inc. | Magazine |
| At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, 4-7 June 1988, Activision showed a new NES version of Ghostbusters in place of Predator and possibly Zombie Master, which the chip shortage had pushed back to 1989. Computer Entertainer reported that, like the Sega version, it had faster action and harder travel between sites than the computer original, and was told that the ending, the meeting with Gozer at the Temple of Zuul, had been expanded. | Summer CES report, openingSummer CES report, Activision, Inc.Summer CES report, Activision, Inc.Summer CES report, Activision, Inc.Summer CES report, Activision, Inc. | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's June 1988 Top 15 Computer Games put Impossible Mission II ninth, listed as "Impossible Mission II (Epy/Co)". | p. 1, Top 15 Computer Gamesp. 1, Top 15 Computer Games | Magazine |
| By June 1988 Karateka was in Broderbund's $14.95 value-priced line, with Lode Runner, Airheart, Cauldron and Magnetron. | Budget Line Expansion | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's June 1988 report from the Summer CES said Tecmo had dropped Solomon's Key and Mighty Bomb Jack in hopes of shipping larger quantities of its new NES titles, Tecmo Baseball, Tecmo Bowl and Ninja Gaiden. | p. 13, Tecmo, Inc.p. 13, Tecmo, Inc. | Magazine |
| At the 1988 Summer CES (Chicago, June 4-7), Taito Software showed Operation Wolf for the NES as one of two new titles in its booth, a military arcade action game that would use the Zapper. Computer Entertainer's availability list of August 1988 gave November. | 1988 Summer CES report (OCR text line 140)Summer CES report, Taito Software, Inc.Summer CES report, Taito Software, Inc. | Magazine |
| Mindscape's Apple II adaptation followed: Computer Entertainer reviewed it in June 1988 at $39.95, with the same marks as the Commodore 64 version, three stars for graphics and two and a half for game play, and called the Commodore version a good seller. | p. 4, Paperboy (Apple II)p. 4 (image n3), Paperboy (Apple II)p. 4, Paperboy, A Popular Titlep. 4, Paperboy | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's Top 15 Computer Games listed "Paperboy (Min/Co)" at number 2 in its June and July 1988 issues, behind Gauntlet and then The Three Stooges. | p. 1, Top 15 Computer Games | Magazine |
| At the summer Consumer Electronics Show of 1988, held in Chicago on 4-7 June, Sunsoft showed Platoon in its section of the Nintendo booth. Computer Entertainer called it a likely hit, a strategic military action-adventure in which the player keeps a platoon of five men alive, morale and sanity intact, through six game sections. | 1988 Summer CES, An Overview (OCR text line 139)p. 12 (image 12), Summer CES report, Sunsoft (Sun Corporation of America)p. 12 (image 12), Summer CES report, Sunsoft (Sun Corporation of America) | Magazine |
| In June 1988 Computer Entertainer reported that Activision's Predator would come to the Commodore 64 later that year, with the player in Schwarzenegger's role as leader of a rescue mission in South America; Computer Gaming World's report from the Summer Consumer Electronics Show of 1988 put it in September for the Commodore 64/128, on the Activision label of Mediagenic. | p. 4 (image 4), news item "Activision Announces Predator"p. 4 (image 4), news item "Activision Announces Predator"p. 4 (image 4), news item "Activision Announces Predator"p. 4 (image 4), news item "Activision Announces Predator" | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer reported in June 1988 that Activision had planned Predator for the NES at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show and a fall release, but the chip shortage had pushed it to 1989; in December 1988 it reported that Predator should be Activision's first NES release of 1989. | p. 11 (image 11), Summer CES report, Activision, Inc.p. 11 (image 11), Summer CES report, Activision, Inc. | Magazine |
| Data East showed the NES version at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show of 1988, at $44.95, with two megabits of memory and two players smashing cities at once, as in the arcade game. | p. 11, Data Eastp. 5, Summer CES | Magazine |
| Activision's Apple II and Commodore 64 versions were being converted in June 1988. Computer Entertainer reviewed both in December 1988, at three and a half stars for graphics and three and a half for game play out of four, recommended at $34.95, and wrote that fans of the arcade game would be pleased with both. | p. 4, Conversions | Magazine |
| At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show of June 1988, RoboCop made an appearance, posing for photos in Data East's section of the Nintendo booth, to promote Data East's coming NES game, priced at $44.95 and described by Computer Entertainer as an action-adventure following the film's plot. | Summer CES report, Data East USA, Inc. (OCR text line 1985)Summer CES report, Data East USA, Inc.Summer CES report, Data East USA, Inc.Summer CES report, opening | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's report from the Consumer Electronics Show in its June 1988 issue said that Sega showed Shinobi there for the second half of the year: an arcade conversion for the Master System on a two-megabit cartridge, one of a pair that Sega owners had asked for. | p. 10 (image 10), "Lots of Activity in Lively Sega Booth" (OCR text lines 1689-1695)p. 10 (image 10) (OCR text lines 1692-1695)p. 10 (image 10) (OCR text line 1695)CES overview (OCR text lines 875-876) | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's June 1988 report from the Summer CES said Tecmo had dropped Solomon's Key and Mighty Bomb Jack in hopes of shipping larger quantities of its new NES titles, Tecmo Baseball, Tecmo Bowl and Ninja Gaiden. | p. 13, Tecmo, Inc.p. 13, Tecmo, Inc. | Magazine |
| By June 1988 Broderbund had dropped Spelunker from its NES line: Computer Entertainer's Summer CES report says Lode Runner, Raid on Bungeling Bay, and Spelunker had been deleted from the Broderbund catalog to make way for three new titles, leaving Deadly Towers, the best seller of its first releases. | p. 11 (image 11), Summer CES report, Broderbund Software, Inc.p. 11 (image 11), Summer CES report, Broderbund Software, Inc. | Magazine |
| In its report on the June 1988 Consumer Electronics Show, Computer Entertainer wrote that Kemco-Seika's only 1988 release would be Superman, and that it had also licensed Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper from First Star, among games mostly scheduled for 1989; describing Sega's Spy vs. Spy card, it called the Island Caper the game licensed to Kemco-Seika for the NES. The game Seika brought out for the NES in October 1988 was Spy vs. Spy, whose manual sets the mission in an embassy. | CES report, Kemco-Seika Corporation (the OCR marks no pages)CES report, Kemco-Seika Corporation (the OCR marks no pages)CES report, New Action Games from Sega (the OCR marks no pages) | Magazine |
| At the same show Sega announced Spy vs. Spy on a Sega card, licensed from First Star, which Computer Entertainer called the first of the three Spy vs. Spy games, with the black and white spies on a split screen. | CES report, New Action Games from Sega (the OCR marks no pages)CES report, New Action Games from Sega (the OCR marks no pages) | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's January 1989 review gave the NES version two and a half stars for graphics and two and a half for game play, out of four. | The Rating System (the OCR marks no pages) | Magazine |
| SNK released the NES version in North America as Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road in April 1988, according to Nintendo of America's list of licensed NES games. Computer Entertainer's June 1988 report on the summer Consumer Electronics Show called it "recently released". | p. 12 (image 12), CES report, SNK Corporation of America; read on the page image | Publisher |
| Computer Entertainer's Top 15 Videogames in June 1988 listed Ikari Warriors II (SNK/NES) seventh. | p. 1 (image 1), Top 15 Videogames; read on the page imagep. 1 (image 1), Top 15 Videogames; read on the page image | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's June 1988 report from the Consumer Electronics Show lists Winter Games among the Atari 7800 games Atari spotlighted. | p. 8, Atari at CESp. 8, Atari at CES | Magazine |