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Instruction booklet · October 1991

Ultraman: Towards the Future

Fighting1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Home console port of the Arcade release. Based on the popular television show from 1967, Ultraman directly follows the story of its source material. Cast in the role of the titular Ultraman, the player must defeat many of the same monsters that appeared in the original series.

Specifications

Released: October 1991
Developer: Nova Games
Publisher: Bandai
Players: 1
Genre: Fighting
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Series: Ultraman
Themes: Action · Science fiction
View: Side view

What the magazines said

EGM · four reviewers

Famitsu · four reviewers

Computer and Video Games: 81/100
GX: 2/5
Official Nintendo Magazine: 31%
Raze: 50%
Super Play: 6/10
Total!: 26%
Control: 46%
Entertainment Weekly: C-
Game Boy: 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, 3/5, 4/5
Mean Machines: 77%
SNES Force: 51%
Super Action: 67%
The Super Famicom: 78/100
Super Gamer: 31%
Super Pro: 31/100

BE KIND, REWINDOctober 1991

#1 song

Good VibrationsMarky Mark and the Funky Bunch / featuring Loleatta Holloway #1 album

Use Your Illusion IIGuns N' Roses Admit one · #1 movie

The Fisher King$6,103,250 weekend

Vol. 1 · No. 7Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of October 4, 1991

Oct. 3

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Foley announces the closure of the House Bank by the end of the year after revelations that House members have written numerous bad checks.

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