Notes:

Part of a 4-page advertisment from Issue #14 of Electronic Gaming Monthly (the September 1990 issue). Note that this advertisement was published during the period before Sonic the Hedgehog or the Super Nintendo Entertainment System were released in the USA.

Note that the two games being featured in the advertisement are Afterburner II and Super Monaco GP. These were ports of some of the biggest arcade games of the late 80's. Sega arcade ports were a major focus of the Sega Genesis, especially before the release of Sonic the Hedgehog. Other major arcade ports of this era included Altered Beast, Columns, Golden Axe, and Super Hang-On.

Much of this issue of EGM shows signs of uncertainty regarding the new 16-bit era of video game consoles. The Sega CD was still a rumor at this point, the Super Nintendo was announced and rumored to possibly be a 32-bit machine, and the TurboGrafX-16 was being given a lot more space in the magazine than veterans of the 16-bit console wars in the USA might have guessed.