Masters of the Game: Special Sweepstakes Edition (1992)

Masters of the Game was a newsletter from Acclaim Entertainment that promoted the games it, and its subsidiary LJN, published. I've got a few issues Acclaim mailed myself, all for free, though a couple that I have display $3 and $3.50 cover prices. I can't imagine anyone actually purchased them, as they're quite small, and a video game magazine with coverage of a wide variety of games for about the same price would have been more enticing. Of course, most of Acclaim's games either featured licensed properties or were home ports of popular arcade games, which didn't appeal to everyone.

This particular issue says "Special Sweepstakes Edition" on the front cover, and the back cover does have a quiz and entry form for a contest with an entertainment center as the top prize. While I couldn't find a published date within the newsletter, the sweepstakes shows a cutoff date of November 1, 1992, so I'd guess it was released in fall 1992.

X-Men Advertisements

Continuing the X-Men coverage with a post of all ads. Seeing as how the blog began as a game ads project, I decided to put every ad featuring the X-Men I have in one place. Along with video game ads, I've got other product ads, some that also appear on the Vault 1541 Facebook page where I upload various things like food, apparel, and trading card ads. Even if they aren't specifically X-Men ads, I'll include scans of ads with X-Men characters, like Wolverine, too.

Non-Game Products

Video Games