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Gamest, no. 17 (February 1988)

Gamest editors. 1988. “Gamest, no. 17 (February 1988).” Gamest (ゲーメスト), vol. 3, no. 2, whole no. 17 (1 February 1988). Shinseisha (新声社).

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Gamest 17
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Notes
Japanese arcade magazine. The cover line gives "昭和63年2月1日発行 … 第3巻第2号通巻17号". Pinned in stubs batch 35 for its new-game feature on SNK's Guevara.

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The arcade game is modelled on the Cuban revolution. Game Machine described two players, as Guevara and Castro, fighting government troops together. Gamest's story sets it in Cuba in 1956 under the dictator Batista. Guevara and Castro land in secret and find the government's army waiting, then fight through the jungle, Santiago, a coal mine and the capital, Havana, to Batista's palace.p. 4 (image 6), Guevara featurep. 4 (image 6), Guevara featurep. 4 (image 6), Guevara featurep. 4 (image 6), Guevara featurep. 4 (image 6), Guevara featureMagazine
Game Machine described the arcade controls as SNK's eight-way loop lever (ループレバー), which sets both the direction of movement and of fire, with one button for the gun and one for grenades and getting in and out of tanks; Your Sinclair called them "swivel-topped joysticks", as on Ikari Warriors. The screen scrolls vertically, with some sideways scroll, over five stages. Gamest reported two players at once, a second player able to join at any time, and a continue for anyone with credits.p. 4 (image 6), Guevara feature, プレイ方法 (how to play)p. 4 (image 6), Guevara feature, プレイ方法 (how to play)p. 4 (image 6), Guevara featureMagazine
Gamest introduced Guevara as one of SNK's loop-lever (ループレバー) games, which it said kept coming out one after another, and as the fourth game in SNK's 怒 (Ikari) series.p. 4 (image 6), Guevara feature, standfirst, read on the page imageMagazine