No release date; could it mean we're in for a longer wait than expected?

[WHS]

I am trying to find a cover of the old mag I imported games from back in 1986-1991. I can't at this moment. I thought it was called "Chips & Bits" but doing a google leaves that search kinda hard to find a old cover. I got a hint from one search that it might have been advertisement in "Electronic Gaming Monthly". Anyway, I imported my games for sega genesis and nes using those adds. They were quite expensive back in the day and even still I had to use a gameshark like device from Datel to get them to work but I did and was able to run Famicom games on my NES. Though I have to admit I never imported FF games. Being as most jp rpg's are heavily not translated to english I was not able to read the language to enjoy the games. I do know however they were in fact available to import back then though I doubt alot of people did this as most of my friends didn't have the money to keep importing every game and I sure didn't do it often myself. I really just tried to import games which I figured would never hit the US shores.

[Mijin]

I am trying to find a cover of the old mag I imported games from back in 1986-1991. I can't at this moment. I thought it was called "Chips & Bits" but doing a google leaves that search kinda hard to find a old cover. I got a hint from one search that it might have been advertisement in "Electronic Gaming Monthly". Anyway, I imported my games for sega genesis and nes using those adds. They were quite expensive back in the day and even still I had to use a gameshark like device from Datel to get them to work but I did and was able to run Famicom games on my NES. Though I have to admit I never imported FF games. Being as most jp rpg's are heavily not translated to english I was not able to read the language to enjoy the games. I do know however they were in fact available to import back then though I doubt alot of people did this as most of my friends didn't have the money to keep importing every game and I sure didn't do it often myself. I really just tried to import games which I figured would never hit the US shores.

The first time I ever remember hearing about importing games was with the SNES and PS1 with the advent of the internet. I'm not saying it didn't happen, but it just was a lot less common and even unheard of for me. I had subscriptions to several gaming mags too, but I don't remember any mention of how to do it ever. I remember wishing I could even find someway to do so.

Later I learned for the PS1 you had to have a mod chip that required installation or you had to do a tricky disk swapping trick. With the SNES you had to break pins off that prevented you from putting the cartridge in. As far as I'm aware though the Famicom cartridge's were completely incompatible with the NES. They may have converters or something now-a-days, but I'm pretty confident they didn't back then.