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Game Machine, no. 288 (15 July 1986)

Game Machine editors. 1986. “Game Machine, no. 288 (15 July 1986).” Game Machine (ゲームマシン), no. 288, 15 July 1986. Amusement Press, Inc. (アミューズメント通信社).

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Game Machine 288
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2026-11-06
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Game Machine (Amusement Press, Osaka). Scan in the Internet Archive item "game-machine-magazine-19860715p".
Notes
Japanese arcade trade paper. The scan holds 17 PDF pages, each a two-page spread. PDF page 11 shows printed p. 21 (left) and p. 20 (right); the Salamander article is on p. 20 under the "話題のマシン" banner. The text layer is poor Japanese OCR: read quotes on the page image.

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Salamander went on sale in arcades in early July 1986, as the Japanese trade paper Game Machine reported on 15 July 1986; Konami's 2007 guidebook gives the date as 4 July 1986.printed p. 20 (PDF p. 11, right-hand page), "巨大な敵を撃破" articleMagazine
Game Machine described the arcade Salamander as six stages in all, each scrolling vertically or horizontally in turn, with two players attacking at once in two fighters; the upright and table cabinets were each listed at an "OP" price of ¥395,000.printed p. 20 (PDF p. 11, right-hand page), "巨大な敵を撃破" articleprinted p. 20 (PDF p. 11, right-hand page), "巨大な敵を撃破" articleprinted p. 20 (PDF p. 11, right-hand page), "巨大な敵を撃破" articleprinted p. 20 (PDF p. 11, right-hand page), "巨大な敵を撃破" articleMagazine
Game Machine's issue of 15 July 1986 ranks Spelunker (Irem) 19th among table-type video games in its '86上半期ベストゲームス25, the best 25 of the first half of 1986, with 584 points. The points are a cumulative total, not an average: the paper adds up every ten-point rating from about six months (twelve issues) and ranks the games by the sum.printed p. 28 (PDF p. 15, right page), '86上半期ベストゲームス25, テーブル型TVゲーム機; read on the page imageMagazine
Namco released Atari Games's three-player driving game Super Sprint in Japan on 5 July 1986, as Game Machine reported in its 15 July issue, under headlines giving eight courses and up to three players at once.printed p. 20 (scan image 11)printed p. 20 (scan image 11)printed p. 20 (scan image 11), headlineprinted p. 20 (scan image 11), headlineMagazine