Game Player's Nintendo Strategy Guide, Volume 1, Number 2, est. April/May 1989

Item — Location: Game Players

Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS-NINTENDO.V1N2

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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: est. April/May 1989

Creator

Signal Research (Publisher, Organization)

Historical Note

This issue was re-printed under the name "Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games."

Full Extent

124 Pages (2 copies with different covers)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Note on Publishing Date

Although this issue does not list a publishing month, we can approximate when it was published based on context. This first printing of issue has a copyright date of 1988 in the masthead with a "Display Until" date of May 16, 1989. The second printing has a copyright date of 1989, and sweepstakes dates in an advertisement (p.17) suggest it was published before July 1989. Taking this into account, we estimate that this issue was printed for April/May 1989, in line with the bimonthly release schedule that the rest of the Game Players series adopted at this time.