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Instruction booklet · February 1992

Super Smash TV

ShooterArcade1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Famicom port of Smash T.V. Smash T.V. was an arcade game created by Eugene Jarvis and Mark Turmell for Williams released in 1990. It is a dual-stick shooter in the same vein as its predecessor, Robotron: 2084 (also produced by Jarvis). As in the previous game, players battle waves of enemies by using guns.

Specifications

Released: February 1992
Developer: Beam Software
Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment
Players: 1
Genre: Shooter · Arcade
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Themes: Action · Science fiction
View: Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

EGM · four reviewers

Players: 73/100 (11 ratings)
ACE: (AMI): 895/1000
AAction: 96%
CRASH: (ZX): 97%
Computer and Video Games: 92/100
Mean Machines: 92%
SUser: ZX: 94%
YSinclair: ZX: 92%
MicroHobby (ES): ZX: 89%
GameRankings: 82.25%

BE KIND, REWINDFebruary 1992

#1 song

I'm Too SexyRight Said Fred

#1 albumRopin' the WindGarth Brooks

Admit one · #1 movie

Medicine Man$8,494,271 weekend

Vol. 2 · No. 25Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of February 7, 1992

Feb. 10

Tom Harkin wins the Iowa Democratic Caucus.

💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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Data: IGDB · Wikipedia · libretro-thumbnails · Charts: Billboard · Box office: Box Office Mojo via Wikipedia. Today’s money uses US CPI-U, 2025 dollars.