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Family Computer Magazine, no. 17 (1 August 1986)

Family Computer Magazine editors. 1986. “Family Computer Magazine, no. 17 (1 August 1986).” Family Computer Magazine (ファミリーコンピュータMagazine), no. 17. Tokuma Shoten.

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Famicom Magazine 17
Original
https://archive.org/details/family-computer-magazine-issue-17-august-1st-1986
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eec1f281d092120b74b49293868d5af84a34285613b9cbbea731c13f4044cc2f
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https://archive.org/download/family-computer-magazine-issue-17-august-1st-1986/Family%20Computer%20Magazine%20-%20Issue%2017%20-%20August%201st%201986%20%28Compressed%29_djvu.xml
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2026-11-06
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© Tokuma Shoten; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit
Scan by Gaming Alexandria, in the Internet Archive item "family-computer-magazine-issue-17-august-1st-1986". The pin is the item's OCR as DjVu XML.
Notes
Pinned in archive batch 25 (Gaming Alexandria's Japanese magazines). The 600 dpi scan is too large to pin, so the pinned copy is the OCR; read quotes on the page images (archive.org/download/family-computer-magazine-issue-17-august-1st-1986/page/n<k>.jpg, k one less than the image number). Strongest items: p. 125, the Metroid preview (8月6日発売予定, 2600円, Disk System) with areas and enemies; pp. 51-62, the Super Mario Bros. 2 trick manga; pp. 83-104 tricks for Zelda, Super Mario Bros. 2, Mighty Bomb Jack and Dragon Quest (p. 95); pp. 112-113, the best 10 with Dragon Quest, Zelda and Super Mario Bros. 2; p. 43, a Dragon Quest ad.

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Family Computer Magazine's 1 August 1986 issue opened a feature on King's Knight on p. 10 by giving it as due in mid-September from Square at 4,900 yen on cartridge, and called it "a new dimension, formation role-playing".p. 10 (image 10), feature openerp. 10 (image 10)p. 10 (image 10)Magazine
Readers' tricks for the Famicom game ran in Family Computer Magazine in the summer of 1986. The Ultra Technique column of 1 August listed five for Star Soldier: the champion's trick, which brings out the laser, worth a 40,000-point bonus; going straight to "Ura Star Soldier"; the return of the whale from Challenger, a 40,000-point bonus on stage 3; a warp to stage 4 through a W panel, which appears only when the score's hundreds and thousands digits match; and homing shots that attack when the game seems to have become an endless pattern. The issue of 19 September printed a bonus trick on when the hidden characters appear: Milon only when the score's thousands digit is odd, the whale when it is even, and the 1UP when the thousands and hundreds digits add up to 10.p. 83 (image 83), Ultra Technique 50+1, list of tricks, read on the page imagep. 83 (image 83), Ultra Technique 50+1, list of tricks, read on the page imagep. 83 (image 83), Ultra Technique 50+1, list of tricks, read on the page imagep. 83 (image 83), Ultra Technique 50+1, list of tricks, read on the page imagep. 83 (image 83), Ultra Technique 50+1, list of tricks, read on the page imagep. 84 (image 84), Ultra Technique 50+1, trick 1, read on the page imagep. 84 (image 84), Ultra Technique 50+1, trick 1, caption, read on the page imagep. 89 (image 89), Ultra Technique 50+1, trick 11, read on the page imagep. 89 (image 89), Ultra Technique 50+1, trick 12, read on the page imagep. 89 (image 89), Ultra Technique 50+1, trick 12, read on the page imageMagazine
Family Computer Magazine's weekly best-10, a sales tally of 26 department stores, put Star Soldier at No. 2 in its first week, 9 to 15 June 1986, behind Makaimura, and at No. 5 in the week of 16 to 22 June.p. 112 (image 112), 週間ベスト10, read on the page imagep. 112 (image 112), 週間ベスト10, Star Soldier box, read on the page imagep. 112 (image 112), 週間ベスト10, Star Soldier box, read on the page imageMagazine
Pony's Famicom cartridge スーパーピットフォール (Super Pitfall) came out in Japan on 5 September 1986 at ¥5,500, by Family Computer Magazine's release calendar of 19 September. The magazine's calendar had listed it for June, price undecided, in April, and for early September at ¥5,500 in August.p. 130, 新作カレンダー (release calendar)Magazine
Pony advertised the Famicom cartridge in Family Computer Magazine of 1 August 1986 at an expected price of ¥5,500: the player, as the explorer Harry, has to find a treasure in a huge cave full of traps.p. 37, Pony advertisementp. 37, Pony advertisementp. 37, Pony advertisementMagazine