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Instruction booklet · August 1992

Magic Sword

PlatformPre-ESRB

The story

Magic Sword is a 2D action side-scroller with a fantasy theme. The hero and his chosen accomplice must battle their way through a wizard's tower in a lust for monster slaying and loot.

Specifications

Released: August 1992
Developer: Minakuchi Engineering
Publisher: Capcom
Genre: Platform
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Themes: Action · Fantasy

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players: 71/100 (13 ratings)
Computer and Video Games: 84/100
Famitsu: 25/40
GP: 5/10
Super Play: 58%
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment: 6/10

BE KIND, REWINDAugust 1992

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This Used to Be My PlaygroundMadonna #1 album

Some Gave AllBilly Ray Cyrus Admit one · #1 movie

Unforgiven$15,018,007 weekend

Vol. 2 · No. 51Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of August 7, 1992

Aug. 11

The largest shopping mall in the U.S., Minnesota's Mall of America, constructed on 78 acres (316,000 m), opens in Bloomington.

💵 $59.99 in a 1993 catalog · about $134 today

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