Famitsu 65-66

Cite as: Famitsu 65-66
Original: https://archive.org/details/famitsu-0065-66
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Accessed: 2026-10-22
Licence: © ASCII Corporation; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit: Famicom Tsūshin (ファミコン通信), ASCII Corporation. Scan in the Internet Archive item "BIWEEKLY ファミコン通信 0065・66".
Notes: The new-games cross-review page is p. 19 (scan leaf n18). Rockman 2 heads the second column with the date '88年12月24日 and four reviewer scores printed as large pale numerals behind the text: 6, 7, 8, 7 (28/40). The item's OCR text is badly garbled for this page and does not carry the score numerals, so read the page image: https://archive.org/download/famitsu-0065-66/page/n18_w2400.jpgtxt (612 KB) rather than the 317 MB PDF.

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Square's Famicom Tsushin advertisements, one before release and one after, sold the game on a growth system without experience points, in which weapons and spells grow stronger with use, and on WMS, a new conversation system built on memorized words. The pre-release one called the growth system a landmark that would transform the Famicom RPG.	`p. 53, Square advertisementp. 53, Square advertisement`	Magazine
Mega Man 2 came out in Japan, as Rockman 2, on 24 December 1988, and in North America in June 1989.	`Rockman 2 feature, the game's data line (OCR text)`	Publisher
Mega Man 2's eight Robot Masters were picked from designs sent in by players, 8,370 in all, which the team then reworked.	`Rockman 2 feature, introduction (OCR text)`	Publisher
Famicom Tsūshin's feature on the game at its release reported eight robots, stages a little easier than the first game's, and a password feature that made it a kinder design.	`Rockman 2 feature, introduction (OCR text)Rockman 2 feature, introduction (OCR text)`	Magazine