VGHF-MAG. Magazine Library
Classification
Identifier: VGHF-MAG
This collection represents the magazines available in the Video Game History Foundation Research Library.
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
The Logical Gamer
Series
Identifier: MAG-LOGICAL
Abstract
The Logical Gamer was an early independent video game newsletter, edited by Alan R. Bechtold. The newsletter covered recent video games and hardware, interviews with game developers, and industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show.
Dates:
August 1982 – December 1983
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Game Player's / Game Players / Game Buyer
Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS
Abstract
Game Players (first published under the name Game Player's, later as Ultra Game Players) was a series of video game magazines that ran from the late 1980s through the 1990s. The magazine originated as a buyer's guide for Nintendo Entertainment System games but quickly expanded into a number of spinoff publications that covered additional platforms. Each version of Game Players was published under a variety of names during its lifetime, sometimes changing in multiple back-to-back...
Dates:
Publication: Winter 1988 – October 1998
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment / VideoGames: The Ultimate Gaming Magazine
Series
Identifier: MAG-VGCE
Abstract
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (VG&CE) was a monthly gaming magazine by Larry Flynt Publications, spun-off from the Video Game Digest column in the Atari computer magazine ANALOG Computing. The magazine's name was changed to VideoGames: The Ultimate Gaming Magazine starting with Issue 80 in September 1995.VG&CE begat several of its own spinoffs, including Tips & Tricks and the TurboGrafx magazines TurboPlay...
Dates:
Publication: December 1988 – September 1996
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Electronic Games / Fusion / Intelligent Gamer
Series
Identifier: MAG-EGAMES2
Abstract
Electronic Games (later known as Fusion, Intelligent Gamer's Fusion, and Intelligent Gamer) was the second run of Electronic Games, a video game magazine which originally ran from 1981–1985. The staff for the second run of Electronic Games initially included many of the editors from the original magazine, such as Arnie Katz, Bill Kunkel, and Joyce Worley.
The magazine went through a number of...
Dates:
Publication: October 1992 – January 1997
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Next Generation / NextGen
Series
Identifier: MAG-NEXTGEN
Abstract
Next Generation was an American multiplatform video game magazine focusing on industry news and trends, published by Imagine Media. The magazine was relaunched in September 1999 as NextGen.Next Generation was one of the few wide-distribution magazines that covered the game industry itself rather than individual products was targeted towards an adult audience. As a result, the magazine had a cross-over audience that included game professionals and the general public and...
Dates:
Publication: January 1995 – January 2002
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
GameFan
Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEFAN
Abstract
GameFan (originally titled Diehard GameFan or Diehard Game Fan through October 1995) was a monthly publication that billed itself as a "next generation video game magazine" and, later, as "the last true enthusiast magazine." Although the magazine covered a wide variety of games, they focused on specialty topics for a video game enthusiast audience, such as import games and role-playing games. GameFan was founded by...
Dates:
Publication: Majority of material found within October 1991 – December 2000; Publication: April 2010 – Summer 2015
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Silicon Magazine
Series
Identifier: MAG-SILICON
Abstract
Silicon Magazine (later known as Silicon Mag) was a video game magazine given away for free at game stores in the United States. The magazine appears to have been published from October 1998 (inferred) until at least February 2002. Issues were short, typically 36 pages or fewer.
Dates:
Publication: April 1999 – February 2002
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
@Gamer
Series
Identifier: MAG-@GAMER
Abstract
@Gamer (rarely written as AtGamer for searchability) was the short-lived official gaming magazine of retailer Best Buy, similar to Game Informer's relationship with FuncoLand and GameStop. The short-lived magazine ran for 35 issues.
Dates:
Publication: July 2010 – December 2014
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
EGM2 / Expert Gamer / GameNOW
Series
Identifier: MAG-EGM2
Abstract
EGM2 (stylized as EGM²) was a spinoff of Electronic Gaming Monthly that focused on in-depth coverage of games, such as strategy and tip guides, and import games. The magazine was published monthly in-between issues of EGM, acting as a second edition of the magazine. As with its parent magazine, Ziff Davis replaced Sendai Publishing as the publisher for EGM2 beginning with the July 1996 issue.Starting with issue 50, EGM2 was rebranded Expert...
Dates:
Publication: July 1994 – January 2004
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Incite Video Gaming / Incite PC Gaming
Series
Identifier: MAG-INCITE
Abstract
Incite Video Gaming and Incite PC Gaming were two gaming magazines published simultaneously by Computec Media. The magazine was targed toward young men and included extensive ancillary content like sports and wrestling coverage, celebrity interviews, and model photoshoots.
Dates:
Publication: July 1999 – August 2000
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library