Game Player's MS-DOS Strategy Guide, Volume 1, Number 4, February/March 1989

Item — Location: Game Players

Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS-GPGUIDE.V1N4

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Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This collection includes nearly every known issue of Game Players in its various forms.

From the Series:

Game Players was originally published as the Game Player's Guide, which alternated between covering Nintendo games and MS-DOS PC games. After four issues, it was relaunched as three separate magazines, covering Nintendo, PC, and general gaming, respectively. Several spinoff magazines followed, covering other platforms.

All three editions of Game Player's magazines restarted at Volume 1, Number 1. This has led to confusion about the correct publishing order for these early issues and the running issue count for Game Players as a whole.

Based on our knowledge, this record is our best attempt at the correct publishing order for each iteration of Game Players. The issue titles and numbers have been reproduced as they were originally printed.

From the Series:

This collection also includes two issues of the Game Player's Consumer Electronics Expo show guide, distributed at the event. Six issues are believed to exist, one for each CES held from 1989–1991 when Game Player's was published. The library has digital scans of all six issues.

Dates

Publication: February/March 1989

Creator

Signal Research (Publisher, Organization)

Historical Note

This is believed to be the fourth chronological issue of Game Player's. Although the introductory letter in this issue identifies it as the "first issue" of the PC edition of Game Player's, it is still numbered with the rest of the Game Player's Guide series. The running issue number for the main Game Players series (introduced in June 1993) seems to have excluded this issue, suggesting that the editors considered it the start of a separate magazine.

Numbering for the PC edition of the magazine would restart in the following issue, "Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide," Volume 1, Number 1.