| Computer Entertainer reported from the January 1990 Winter CES that Taito Software showed Chase H.Q. on the Amiga at $34.95, with MS-DOS ($34.95) and Commodore 64/128 ($29.95) versions planned, describing it as a car racing game that casts the player as a cop in five high-speed chase missions. | PDF p. 7, CES report, "Taito expands computer games lineup"PDF p. 7, CES report, "Taito expands computer games lineup"PDF p. 7, CES report, "Taito expands computer games lineup"PDF p. 7, CES report, "Taito expands computer games lineup" | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer reported in October 1989 that Tengen/Atari Games had four to five Sega Genesis games planned for release in 1990, the first a conversion of Cyberball. Its January 1990 report from the Consumer Electronics Show listed Cyberball among the games licensed to Sega for conversion to the Genesis, designed for two-player play over the TeleGenesis modem but with a one-player mode too. | p. 12 of the PDF, CES reportp. 12 of the PDF, CES report | Magazine |
| In January 1990 Computer Entertainer, reporting a new Mindscape game by Chris Gray, identified him as the designer of Infiltrator and Fiendish Freddy. | p. 6, Mindscape at CES | Magazine |
| At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show of 1989 Mindscape listed Infiltrator among its upcoming titles, which Computer Entertainer described in June 1989 as an update of the Chris Gray computer hit combining helicopter combat and ground missions; in January 1990 the newsletter named it as coming soon from Mindscape for the NES. | p. 16, Plenty of action from Mindscape | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's Availability Update of January 1990 listed the NES version from Mindscape for the first quarter of 1990. | p. 22, Availability Update, Nintendo, First Quarter | Magazine |
| Klax began as an Atari Games arcade game. Computer Entertainer's January 1990 issue, reporting on the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, said the coin-op "just hit the arcades earlier this month". A 2005 Japanese reference list of arcade games gives February 1990 for Atari Games' Klax in its overseas part, and March 1990 for Klax from Atari Games and Namco in its Japanese part; Hudson Soft's Famicom manual says Atari Games presented Klax in the arcades in spring 1990. | p. 19, Tengen at the Winter CESp. 19, Tengen at the Winter CES | Magazine |
| At the January 1990 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Tengen announced but did not show an NES version of Klax, and also announced planned Genesis versions of Paperboy, RoadBlasters and Klax, according to Computer Entertainer. | p. 21, Tengen (NES software at CES)p. 19, Tengen at the Winter CES | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's January 1990 issue, reporting from the winter Consumer Electronics Show, listed RoadBlasters as coming soon from Mindscape for the NES. | p. 16, Plenty of action from Mindscape | Magazine |
| Tengen announced a Genesis version at the winter Consumer Electronics Show of January 1990: Computer Entertainer reported that Tengen "announced, but did not show" Genesis versions of Paperboy, RoadBlasters and Klax, and Game Player's listed RoadBlasters among the Genesis titles announced by independent companies. | p. 19, Tengen | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer liked the Master System version. Its November 1989 review of the Commodore 64 version said "we loved Sega's home version for the Sega Master System", and in January 1990 it called The Revenge of Shinobi a "very satisfying sequel" to the 8-bit Sega game that it had reviewed a year before. Its October 1989 issue said that the Genesis game would feature the familiar martial arts character from the Master System game. | p. 18 (image 18), Sega Genesis Software, The Revenge of Shinobi | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's Availability Update of November 1989 lists "Shinobi (TEN)", the Tengen game, in its Nintendo column under December, without the x it gives games already shipped. | p. 23 (image 23), Availability Update, key | Magazine |
| A table on p. 9 of Computer Entertainer's January 1990 issue, which lists titles with a system, a publisher and a month, has two Shinobi rows: "Shinobi Co Sega Nov 89" (Co, the Commodore 64/128) and "Shinobi Sega Sega Jan 89" (the Master System). The page prints no key to what the month stands for. | p. 9 (image 9), top of column 2p. 9 (image 9), foot of column 1 | Magazine |
| In January 1990 Computer Entertainer's report on Taito's games at the Consumer Electronics Show said Target Renegade had "much better graphics than the first game" and an original rock soundtrack. | p. 17, Taito shows action and role-playing gamesp. 17, Taito shows action and role-playing gamesp. 17, Taito shows action and role-playing games | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's October 1989 issue listed Vindicators in Tengen's schedule of NES games for that year, and the same issue's Availability Update listed it under November in its Nintendo column, without the x it gives games already shipped. The November 1989 update still listed it there for November, unmarked. | p. 23 (image 23), Availability Update, key | Magazine |
| Computer Entertainer's January 1990 Availability Update lists "x-Vindicators (TEN)" under December in its Atari ST and Amiga columns, the x marking games already shipped; its Nintendo column doesn't list the game. | p. 22 (image 22), Availability Update, Decemberp. 23 (image 23), Availability Update, key | Magazine |