Electronic Gaming Monthly, May 1989 – February 2009

Sub-Series

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Scope and Contents

The library's physical collection of Electronic Gaming Monthly includes all main issues of the magazine, published from 1989–2009, as well as the vast majority of the magazine's special issues and supplements.

The final issue of the original run of EGM, Issue 237, was never published in print; instead, the collection includes the February 2009 issue of EGM Brasil, which was published the same month.

The library's digital collection currently includes most supplements included with EGM, with the exceptions of inserts for subscribers (such as Quartermann's Q-Letter), Master Profile pages, and the Sega Force and TurboPlay magazine series (which will be digitized and cataloged separately). Unless noted, all issues on the library shelves come with subscriber inserts.

Dates

Publication: May 1989 – February 2009

Creator

Sendai Publishing (Publisher, Organization)
Ziff Davis, Inc (Publisher, Organization)

Full Extent

283 Items

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Electronic Gaming Monthly (abbreviated EGM) was one of the longest-running American video game magazines. In addition to its extensive previews and reviews of video games, the magazine was often a source for insider news and rumors, which stood out among gaming magazines when it first debuted.

EGM was an expansive and prolific publication, with some issues running over 400 pages long during its prime. Due to the large amount of content covered by EGM, the magazine ran dozens of themed special issues and started a second-edition spinoff publication titled EGM² in 1994. The original publisher of EGM, Sendai Publishing, also branched out to produce several platform-specific magazines through the mid-1990s.

Sendai Publishing produced EGM from its founding in May 1989 until its takeover by media company Ziff Davis in June 1996. The magazine was discontinued in February 2009, shortly before the scheduled release of Issue 237. However, EGM founder Steve Harris briefly relaunched the magazine the following year, with the magazine's numbering scheme picking up with Issue 238.