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Electronic Gaming Monthly, no. 1 (May 1989)

Electronic Gaming Monthly editors. 1989. “Electronic Gaming Monthly, no. 1 (May 1989).” Electronic Gaming Monthly, no. 1 (May 1989). Sendai Publishing.

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EGM 1
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https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_01
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5bb49b99afc6a5e84947c24e858174e009d2803cdb4049eadbb1c00ff9675a4c
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https://archive.org/download/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_01/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_01_djvu.xml
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2026-11-06
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© Sendai Publishing (at the time of publication); scan hosted by the Internet Archive
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Scan in the Internet Archive item "Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_01"; the pin is the scan's OCR, as DjVu XML. The bound-in Taxan newsletter is signed by Ken Lobb, Taxan's product manager.
Notes
The cover is dated May 1989. Bound into the issue is a Taxan Consumer Division newsletter ("Guide to Taxan Games, free to EGM readers"), whose product manager, Ken Lobb, describes Taxan's NES games, Star Soldier first.

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Taxan USA published Star Soldier for the NES in North America, made under license from Hudson Soft; Nintendo's list of licensed NES games dates it January 1989. In May 1989 Taxan's newsletter, whose introduction its product manager, Ken Lobb, signed, called it Taxan's first title.image 36 (Videodiction p. 1), Taxan Videodiction newsletter, run-down of the gamesimage 36 (Videodiction p. 1), Taxan Videodiction newsletter, Introduction to TaxanPublisher
Taxan sold the NES game on its Japanese tournament past. Taxan's newsletter bound into Electronic Gaming Monthly's first issue (May 1989), whose introduction its product manager, Ken Lobb, signed, called it "a shooter extraordinaire" and "the game used for the Japanese championships" in a first-person run-down of the games: it has 16 levels, of which the writer had yet to beat the 15th, and you can sneak underneath the islands. The newsletter's scoreboard opened a high-score contest with it, giving the writer's own score of 2,642,300 as of 10 January 1989. Taxan's advertisement in the next issue called it "the same game used for the Japanese Nintendo game championships".image 36, Taxan Videodiction newsletterimage 36, Taxan Videodiction newsletterimage 36, Taxan Videodiction newsletterimage 38, Taxan Videodiction newsletterimage 38, Taxan Videodiction newsletterimage 36, Taxan Videodiction newsletterimage 36 (Videodiction p. 1), Taxan Videodiction newsletter, Introduction to TaxanMagazine