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:
Consumer Electronics Show clipped flyers
Collection
Identifier: PROMO-CESFLYERS
Abstract
Around the time of the twice-annual Consumer Electronics Expo (CES), electronics trade magazines would include flyers for upcoming CES booths. These flyers have been clipped from their magazines.
Dates:
Publication: Majority of material found within 1987–1991
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
PS Max
Series
Identifier: MAG-PSMAX
Abstract
PS Max was a short-lived PlayStation magazine written for a teenage audience. The magazine, spun off from the magazine PSM (according to the masthead), is credited to the PS Max Team, a team of fictional comic characters who love video games. Games are reviewed on an A-to-F scale, like a school report card.In addition to typical game magazine content such as reviews, previews, and cheat codes, PS Max also included an original comic featuring the PS Max Team.Only one...
Dates:
Publication: Fall/Winter 1999
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Computer Entertainer
Series
Identifier: MAG-CEVGU
Abstract
Computer Entertainer, originally titled The Video Game Update, was a video game newsletter published from 1982 until July 1990. It began as a newsletter for the video game mail-order company Video Take-Out, operated by sisters Marylou Badeaux and Celeste Dolan, before branching out into general video game coverage.
Computer Entertainer was one of the few American video game publications that ran continuously through the 1983–1984 American game industry...
Dates:
Publication: 1982–1990
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Hardcore Gamer
Series
Identifier: MAG-HARDCORE
Abstract
Hardcore Gamer was a magazine by DoubleJump Publishing, founded by alumni of GameFan magazine, that covered current and retro games. Similar to GameFan, Hardcore Gamer had a special focus on import gaming and niche subgenres that received less coverage in mainstream publications, like Japanese role-playing games.The magazine ran for three and a half years on a semi-regular schedule until 2009, when publisher Tim Lindquist sold the rights to Hardcore Gamer on eBay to an unknown...
Dates:
Publication: June 2005 – Winter 2009
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Q64
Series
Identifier: MAG-Q64
Abstract
Q64 was a seasonal magazine by Dimension Publishing covering the Nintendo 64 console. The magazine appears to have run for only 10 issues, ending its run at the end of 1999.
Dates:
Publication: Summer 1997 – Winter 2000
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
SOE Worlds: The Official Magazine
Series
Identifier: MAG-SOE
Abstract
SOE Worlds was the official magazine for Sony Online Entertainment, a major publisher of massively multiplayer games in the 2000s. The magazine covered content from a variety of SOE games, such as EverQuest, PlanetSide, and Star Wars Galaxies, as well as SOE's annual Fan Faire event.
SOE Worlds appears to have only run for a single issue, along with a digital preview issue.
Dates:
Publication: 2004–2005
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Videogame Advisor
Series
Identifier: MAG-VGADVISOR
Abstract
Videogame Advisor was a monthly game industry trade magazine that covered news in the game industry, as well as interviews with game industry figures, previews and reviews of upcoming games, and other information relevant to the games business, such as financial date and industry directories. The magazine was formatted like a newspaper, with dense news items up-front followed by special features.
The magazine ran through the end of 1997, ...
Dates:
Publication: 1995–1997
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Game On! USA
Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEONUSA
Abstract
Game On! USA: The Magazine of Electronic Manga Gaming was the American edition of the Japanese gaming magazine Game On! (ゲームオン!). The magazine focused exclusively on the Japanese game industry, particularly games with distinctive Japanese aesthetics, dubbed "manga gaming" by the magazine. As its marquee feature, each issue included several chapters of manga adaptations of video games with new English translations.Game On! USA was published by...
Dates:
Publication: Majority of material found within May – November 1996
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Multimedia World
Series
Identifier: MAG-MULTIWORLD
Abstract
Multimedia World is a spinoff of PC World focusing on multimedia hardware and software. The magazine paid special attention to multimedia games and CD-ROMs, as well as operating systems, music software, and anything adjacent to home computer media production.
Like its parent magazine, Multimedia World was owned by IDG Communications.
Dates:
Publication: December 1993 – 1996?
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
Casual Connect
Series
Identifier: MAG-CASUALCONNECT
Abstract
Casual Connect (also known as Casual Connect Magazine and originally Minna Magazine) was a game industry trade publication about casual games, published three times yearly by the Casual Games Association. The magazine covered the business of the casual games market, including product development and marketing strategies. Casual Connect ran for around nine years, discontinuing midway into 2015.Casual Connect was also distributed...
Dates:
Publication: 2006–2015
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library