"Ride the Ocean Wave!" supplement to Game Players Nintendo Guide, circa late 1992 or early 1993

Item — Location: Game Players

Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS-NINTENDO-SUPPLEMENTS.1

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Scope and Contents

From the Series:

The library's physical collection includes every known issue of Game Players in its various forms. Our digital library currently includes almost all issues of the magazine, with an exception of one issue of Game Player's PC (Volume 3, Number 1, January/February 1990) and several editions of Game Player's Encyclopedia.

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: circa late 1992 or early 1993

Creator

Signal Research (Publisher, Organization)
Ocean Software Ltd (Sponsor, Organization)

Historical Note

This supplement includes full-page coverage of an unreleased game based on the 1992 film Radio Flyer. Enthusiasts have noted that the content of Radio Flyer is inappropriate for a children's video game, which may be why the title was canceled.

Note on Publishing Date

It is unclear which issue this supplement was associated with. Although we have seen copies of this supplement bundled with the February 1993 issue of Game Players Nintendo Guide in auction listings, an advertisement for a sweepstakes in this supplement lists an end date of January 15, 1993, suggesting it was also distributed earlier than January 1993.