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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 232 Collections and/or Records:

Personal Software

 Series
Identifier: MAG-PERSOFT
Abstract Personal Software (also referred to as Personal Software Magazine) was an early computer software magazine, published by the Hayden Publishing Company. Each issue featured extensive reviews of new software products, including entertainment titles such as games. The magazine appears to have been a spinoff of Hayden's other computer magazine, Personal Computing (according to the letter from the editor in the final issue).The magazine would only run for...
Dates: Publication: November 1983 – September 1984

PoJo's Video Game Review

 Series
Identifier: MAG-POJO
Abstract PoJo's Video Game Review (later simply titled Video Game Review) was a short-lived video game magazine published around 2001. It was styled like a consumer product guide, featuring news and reviews about upcoming games and consoles, as well as spotlights on gaming accessories. Game reviews in PoJo's Video Game Review did not have scores assigned but rather acted more like product recommendations.The PoJo brand started out as The Almighty PoJo, a Pokémon...
Dates: Publication: 2000–2001

Gamestar (US)

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMESTARUS
Abstract Gamestar was a short-lived adult-focused video game magazine by IDG Communications, the publishers of GamePro. The magazine was targered to adult men and featured coverage of movies, music, and electronics, in addition to video games and computer games. Like similar magazines like PC Accelerator, Gamestar was written from an edgy men's perspective that frequently sexualized women and included model photoshoots interspersed throughout the magazine.The magazine appears to have only...
Dates: Publication: 2004–2005?

Gamesauce

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMESAUCE
Abstract Gamesauce (also called Gamesauce Magazine) was a short-lived game industry trade magazine. Similar to other trade magazines like Game Developer, Gamesauce combined game design analysis, developer interviews, and professional advice. Three issues of Gamesauce were published from 2009 to 2010, after which the Gamesauce brand continued as a web-based game industry news publication.Gamesauce had a close but unclear association with the Casual Games...
Dates: Publication: Fall 2009 – Fall 2010

Wired

 Series
Identifier: MAG-WIRED
Abstract

Wired is a long-running technology magazine that focuses on the intersection of tech and culture. Besides broadly covering topics like computers, multimedia, and the internet, the magazine regularly features coverage of video games, which includes in-depth interviews with game developers and other industry figures.

Dates: Publication: March/April 1993 –

DVLSBLSH

 Series
Identifier: MAG-DVLSBLSH
Abstract DVLSBLSH (also presented as devils blush or devilsblush) is a series of art books published by Will Stevenson containing collages of screenshots from retro video games. The games featured in DVLSBLSH are typically (but not exclusively) Japanese games from the late 80s to early 2000s with a pixelated aesthetic; the screenshots have simulated television scanlines to evoke a nostalgic aesthetic.Issues of DVLSBLSH are published as...
Dates: Publication: 2023–

Computer Pilot

 Series
Identifier: MAG-COMPPILOT
Abstract

Computer Pilot was a long-running magazine covering flight simulator games and hardware, published by PC Aviator, a distributor of flight simulation software.

The magazine appears to have run from 1997 through 2012. The exact publication history of Computer Pilot is unclear; the magazine was purchased by German flight magazine publisher Marc Goergen in early 2012 and appears to have run through December 2012.

Dates: 1997–2012

Forgotten Worlds

 Series
Identifier: MAG-FWORLDS
Abstract

Forgotten Worlds is a limited edition zine series celebrating the history of video game magazines, fan zines, and pccassionally related topics such as game box art. The zine is independently published by Melbourne-based writer Mikolai Napieralski (doing business as American 80s) and includes highlights of historical video game magazines and interviews with their editors.

Dates: 2023–

3DO Magazine

 Series
Identifier: MAG-3DOMAG
Abstract

3DO Magazine was a British magazine covering the 3DO platform and adjacent news from the British video game industry. As the only English-language 3DO publication in Europe, 3DO Magazine included many interviews with staff from 3DO Europe in England.

According to the website UK Games Magazines, 3DO Magazine ran for 14 issues.

Dates: Publication: Winter 1994 – July 1996?

Multimedia and internet magazines, assorted

 Collection
Identifier: MAG-MULTIMEDIA
Abstract

Through the 1990s and early 2000s, some publishers produced short-lived magazines covering multimedia software and internet culture. Rather than borrowing their style from computer magazines, these publications were often presented like lifestyle or culture magazines.

Dates: Publication: 1986–2000