Game Informer chose the Sonic & Knuckles logo (always an excellent piece of graphic design) for their coverage of "The First Backward Compatable Cart" This feature was a great deal, and very exciting so anyone would want to pick up this issue. Placing it pretty much alone on the all-black cover also made this one stand out from the usually cluttered cover-crowd of the other magazines. (Though Donkey Kong and EWJ work their way into the edges.