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VGHF-MAG. Magazine Library

 Classification
Identifier: VGHF-MAG
This collection represents the magazines available in the Video Game History Foundation Research Library.

Found in 234 Collections and/or Records:

Video Games Player / Computer Games

 Series
Identifier: MAG-VGPLAYER
Abstract

Video Games Player, renamed Computer Games in 1984, was a video game magazine by Carnegie Publications Corp., usually published bimonthly. Despite its change in title, both incarnations of the magazine covered home consoles, arcade games, and computer games.

Dates: Publication: Fall 1982 – February 1985

Wireframe

 Series
Identifier: MAG-WIREFRAME
Abstract

Wireframe is a magazine by the Raspberry Pi Foundation that "lifts the lid on video games," featuring close looks at game development and developers from an outside perspective. The magazine was published biweekly until spring 2020, when it switched to a monthly format. It was discontinued in January 2023.

Dates: Publication: November 2018 – January 2023

Super Gaming

 Series
Identifier: MAG-SUPERGAMING
Abstract

Super Gaming was a short-lived gaming magazine by Sendai Publishing that covered import games, particularly games from Japan, before they were released in the United States. Super Gaming only ran for four issues. Two years later, Sendai Publishing would begin publishing EGM2, a magazine that initially had a similar focus on import games.

Dates: Publication: Summer 1991 – Spring 1992

Old School Gamer Magazine

 Series
Identifier: MAG-OSGM
Abstract

Old School Gamer Magazine is a bimonthly retrogaming nostalgia magazine. The articles in this magazine tend to be personal recollections about games and gaming culture from the 1980s–1990s, as well as coverage of the North American retrogaming event scene and occasional interviews with game developers.

Dates: Publication: November 2017 –

JoyStik

 Series
Identifier: MAG-JOYSTIK
Abstract

JoyStik was an early magazine that offered tips and strategies for arcade games. The magazine was subtitled "How to Win at Video Games." Later, the magazine would expand to also cover home console games and computer games.

Dates: Publication: September 1982 – December 1983

PC Accelerator

 Series
Identifier: MAG-PCXL
Abstract

PC Accelerator (abbreviated PCXL) was a computer game magazine targeted to men, in the style of men's magazines such as Maxim. PCXL is mostly notable for its pervasive crude, sexist content, which was objectionable even in its own time.

A one-off revival issue of PC Accelerator was published by PC Gamer in Fall 2007.

Dates: Publication: September 1998 – June 2000

Flux

 Series
Identifier: MAG-FLUX
Abstract

Flux was a short-lived video games and comics magazine by Harris Publications, published quarterly. For the first two issues, the magazine also focused on popular music.

Dates: Publication: July 1994 – January 1996

From Gamers Magazine

 Series
Identifier: MAG-FROMGAMERS
Abstract

From Gamers Magazine is a crowdfunded fan magazine that covers current-release video games and includes interviews with developers. The magazine is a print spinoff of Guide Fall, a gaming strategy guide website also owned by editor-in-chief Andrew Smith.

Dates: Publication: May 2021 –

Amiga Addict

 Series
Identifier: MAG-AMIGAADDICT
Abstract

Amiga Addict is a British retrogaming magazine that exclusive covers Amiga computers. The magazine covers Amiga games, software, and the community, as well as interviews with people who were once involved with the Amiga scene. Amiga Addict was published monthly for the first seven issues, at which point it switched to an irregular publishing schedule.

Dates: Publication: January 2021 –

Arcade / Dynamite

 Series
Identifier: MAG-ARCADEDYNA
Abstract

Arcade was an early children's arcade magazine that was published together with Dynamite, a children's celebrity magazine by Scholastic. Both magazines were printed as a single publication, with each taking up a portion of the issue. The back cover of Dynamite was the front cover of Arcade, and vice-versa.

Dates: Publication: approx. 1982–1983