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Family Computer Magazine, no. 19 (19 September 1986)

Family Computer Magazine editors. 1986. “Family Computer Magazine, no. 19 (19 September 1986).” Family Computer Magazine (ファミリーコンピュータMagazine), no. 19. Tokuma Shoten.

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Famicom Magazine 19
Original
https://archive.org/details/family-computer-magazine-issue-19-september-19th-1986
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54b5b9ad89b0eb00039520223a4671d0c50160f08d4d011a9fdb8f08ffb4e368
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https://archive.org/download/family-computer-magazine-issue-19-september-19th-1986/Family%20Computer%20Magazine%20-%20Issue%2019%20-%20September%2019th%201986%20%28Compressed%29_djvu.xml
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2026-11-06
Licence
© Tokuma Shoten; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit
Scan by Gaming Alexandria, in the Internet Archive item "family-computer-magazine-issue-19-september-19th-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-19-september-19th-1986/page/n<k>.jpg, k one less than the image number). Strongest items: p. 132, the Akumajō Dracula (Castlevania) preview (9月下旬発売予定, Konami, 2980円, Disk System); p. 78, the Metroid guide with a poster; pp. 92 and 94, Metroid tricks; pp. 59-77, Takahashi Meijin no Bōkenjima maps (Adventure Island); pp. 126-127, the best 10 with Dragon Quest, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Zelda.

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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. 111 (image 111), ウル技 番外技 (bonus trick) strip, read on the page imagep. 111 (image 111), ウル技 番外技 (bonus trick) strip, read on the page imageMagazine
An advertisement for Alfa Records' GMO label in Family Computer Magazine of 19 September 1986 lists Hudson Game Music, an album of twelve tracks including Star Soldier, Binary Land, and Championship Lode Runner, on LP (ALR-22903) and cassette (ALC-22903) at ¥2,200 and on CD (28XA-87) at ¥2,800, and a ¥700 single (ALR-798) of arranged versions of Star Soldier and Championship Lode Runner.p. 40 (image 40), game-music advertisementp. 40 (image 40), game-music advertisement, read on the page imagep. 40 (image 40), game-music advertisement, read on the page imagep. 40 (image 40), game-music advertisementp. 40 (image 40), game-music advertisement, read on the page imagep. 40 (image 40), game-music advertisement, right panel, 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. 134, 新作カレンダー (release calendar)Magazine
Nichibutsu planned the Famicom Terra Cresta for 27 September 1986 at 4,900 yen, on a 1-megabit ROM, as its advertisement and Family Computer Magazine's release calendar in the 19 September 1986 issue both gave. In May and June Marukatsu Famicom had expected it in early July.p. 45 (scan image 45), Nichibutsu advertisementp. 45 (scan image 45), Nichibutsu advertisementp. 45 (scan image 45), Nichibutsu advertisementp. 134 (scan image 134), 新作カレンダーMagazine
Nichibutsu hid three kinds of English letters among the enemy's fixed objects in the Famicom game, and offered a cassette of the game's theme music to 1,000 people drawn by lot from those who sent in the right answer by 31 October 1986. Every month 500 people drawn by lot from the questionnaire postcards sent back got original Nichibutsu goods.p. 45 (scan image 45), Nichibutsu advertisementManual