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Nintendo Magazine System, issue 1 (October 1992)

Nintendo Magazine System editors. 1992. “Nintendo Magazine System, issue 1 (October 1992).” Nintendo Magazine System, issue 1 (October 1992). EMAP Images.

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Nintendo Magazine System 1
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https://archive.org/details/nintendo-magazine-system-1
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8f34df184b104a3adc920f751da0f2fe92bf79eb518f93d62ccf047c4deabe2c
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https://archive.org/download/nintendo-magazine-system-1/Nintendo%20Magazine%20System%201%20-%20october%201992%20(UK)%20(iDevice%20Version)_djvu.xml
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2026-11-06
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© EMAP Images (at the time of publication); scan hosted by the Internet Archive
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Scan in the Internet Archive item "nintendo-magazine-system-1"; the pin is the item's OCR, as DjVu XML.
Notes
Pinned in stubs batch 34 for the NES Elite review (pp. 56-58, images 56-58) and Imagineer's advertisement (image 19). The item is an "iDevice version" of the scan; the item "nintendo-magazine-system-issue-001-october-1992" is another scan of the same issue, with a cleaner OCR of some of the review's text.

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Imagineer published the NES version in Britain in late 1992. Nintendo Magazine System's October 1992 review gives £39.95 and a November release; Total!'s review in November gives £40 and "out now". Nintendo Magazine System called it the only console version of Elite so far.p. 56 (image 56), review boxp. 56 (image 56), review boxp. 56 (image 56), OriginMagazine
The two British reviews print different player counts for the NES version. Nintendo Magazine System marks it "2 PLAYER" and describes a two-player mode, in which player one fires and works the icon system and player two navigates. Total! lists it as "1 player", in its review and again in its December directory. Nintendo Magazine System also notes that the Blue Danube plays during automatic docking, with an option to turn it off.p. 56 (image 56), side badgep. 56 (image 56), box headed "One/two-player game"p. 56 (image 56)Magazine
Nintendo Magazine System gave the NES version 91 overall (presentation 98, graphics 83, sound 78, lastability 93, playability 90). Rich, who had reached Elite on the Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amiga, found everything from the original there, down to the geography of all eight galaxies, but the game hard to get into and the docking sequence over-long. Jaz called it "absolutely brilliant".p. 58 (image 58), ratingsp. 58 (image 58), verdictp. 57 (image 57), comment signed Richp. 57 (image 57), comment signed Richp. 57 (image 57), comment signed Richp. 57 (image 57), comment signed Richp. 58 (image 58), comment signed JazMagazine