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Electronic Gaming Monthly's 1992 Video Game Buyer's Guide

Publications, Sendai. 1992. “Electronic Gaming Monthly's 1992 Video Game Buyer's Guide.” Electronic Gaming Monthly's 1992 Video Game Buyer's Guide. Sendai Publications.

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EGM 1992 Buyer's Guide
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Electronic Gaming Monthly staff
Notes
Pages 60–61: the 1991 awards, "Best Game of the Year ... Sonic the Hedgehog". The year-in-review essay "1991… The War Begins…" describes Sega's $149 Genesis bundle with Sonic.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly reported in September 1991 that from that month Sonic would replace Altered Beast as the game packed in with the Genesis, and its 1992 Buyer's Guide says Sega bundled the game with the system and cut its price to $149.Editorial, 1991Magazine
Electronic Gaming Monthly reported that Sega ran a side-by-side comparison of Sonic with "Mario 4" at the CES and similar comparisons nationwide, and that Sega officials said over 90 percent of the players preferred Sonic.Editorial, 1991Magazine
Electronic Gaming Monthly's 1992 Buyer's Guide, in its editors' awards for 1991, named it Best Game of the Year, the clear winner over "Mario 4" on the Super NES; a separate Best Game of the Year (Super Nintendo) went to Mario.contents, p. 60 entryawardsawardsMagazine