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Rare’s Donkey Kong Country is on the cover of Electronic Gaming Monthly issue 63. One Platinum Award and seven Gold Awards were handed out in this issue! Sounds like a great month for gaming!
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Final Fantasy II (SNES) 9, 9, 9, 9 Platinum Award - Game of the Month
Mortal Kombat II (SNES) 9, 8, 8, 8 [...]

The X-Men attack the cover of EGM number 64 from December 1994. This issue contains previews of Super Street Fighter 2 (3DO), Dragon (Atari Jaguar), and Flashback (3DO). Sega also reveals Project Venus and a Super Genesis!
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Sonic & Knuckles (Sega Genesis) 10, 9, 9, 9 Platinum Award - Game of the Month
Ballz (SNES) 8, 7, [...]

Electronic Gaming Monthly issue 64 features nearly 400 pages of news, reviews, and previews from November 1994. Doom for Sega’s ill-fated 32X is on the cover, while Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo was the Game of the Month.
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Donkey Kong Country (SNES) 10, 9, 9, 9 Platinum Award - Game of the Month
The [...]

Primal Rage graces the cover of Electronic Gaming Monthly number 62. The cover exclaims “Primal Rage: Better Than Mortal Kombat II!” I’m not so sure about that. I remember Primal Rage in the arcade, but was never a big enough fan to play a home version. I’ll have to check it out. This issue also [...]

Electronic Gaming Monthly issue 61 features a great cover of Super Return of the Jedi for the SNES. The cover proclaims that “Super Street Fighter II is coming to the home in November!” The August 1994 issue also features Virtua Cop, Jurassic Park 2, Super Punch Out!, and much more.

Issue 59 of EGM highlights Virtua Fighter for the 32-bit Sega Saturn. Previews in the issue include Stunt Race FX, Outrunners, Double Dragon 5 (the fighting game), Kirby’s Battleball (?) and Fatal Fury Special.

The May 1994 cover of Electronic Gaming Monthly features Street Fighter II yet again. For awhile, every other issue of EGM was either Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat related. I can’t say I blame them, because both of those games absolutely rock. This was also a THE time period for fighting games. As such, this [...]