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Game Machine, no. 307 (1 May 1987)

Game Machine editors. 1987. “Game Machine, no. 307 (1 May 1987).” Game Machine (ゲームマシン), no. 307, 1 May 1987. Amusement Press, Inc. (アミューズメント通信社).

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Game Machine 307
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Game Machine (Amusement Press, Osaka). Scan in the Internet Archive item "game-machine-magazine-19870501p".
Notes
Japanese arcade trade paper, bilingual. The scan holds 15 PDF pages, each a two-page spread. PDF page 13 shows printed p. 25 (left, "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25") and p. 24 (right, which reprints Replay magazine's April 1987 Player's Choice charts). The text layer is poor Japanese OCR; read quotes on the page image.

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In Japan the arcade game was sold as 魂斗羅 (Contra). Game Machine's chart of 1 May 1987 has it 16th among table video games, with a rating of 5.26.printed p. 25 (PDF p. 13), Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25, table videosprinted p. 25 (PDF p. 13), Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25, table videosMagazine
Replay magazine's Players' Choice for April 1987, reprinted in Game Machine, put Contra first among the best new uprights in the US, at 8.40.printed p. 24 (PDF p. 13), 米国「リプレイ」誌 ザ・プレイヤーズ・チョイスMagazine
Game Machine's "Best Hit Games 25" for table-model video games, in its 1 May 1987 issue, placed Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun 22nd, down from 19th, about a year after its release. The chart averages surveyed arcade operators' rankings by earnings and popularity on a ten-point scale, on which 5 is average; the game rated 5.09.printed p. 25 (PDF p. 13), Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25printed p. 25 (PDF p. 13), section headingprinted p. 25 (PDF p. 13), rating legendprinted p. 25 (PDF p. 13), rating legendMagazine
The same Game Machine issue reprints Replay's Player's Choice charts for April 1987, where the American Renegade, which it calls the US version of Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun, is 12th among the best software.printed p. 24 (PDF p. 13), Replay Player's Choice, April 1987, best softwareMagazine