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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 238 Collections and/or Records:

Cash Box

 Series
Identifier: MAG-CASHBOX
Abstract

Cash Box (also spelled Cashbox) was a trade magazine for the American music and amusement industries. Similar to other music trade magazines like Billboard, although Cash Box primarily covered the music business, the magazine would also go on to cover jukeboxes and other coin-op amusements, including arcade games.

Dates: Publication: July 1942 – November 1996

IGN magazines

 Series
Identifier: MAG-IGN
Abstract The gaming news website IGN tried multiple times to produce a magazine based on their site. Their first attempt, IGN64.com The Magazine, was published by their owner Imagine Media back when the site originally exclusively covered Nintendo 64 games. This iteration of the magazine listed only one issue. Later in 2001 as an independent company, they attempted to relaunch their magazine with GameShark under the title IGN.com The Magazine....
Dates: Publication: 1998–2001

NGamer

 Series
Identifier: MAG-NGAMERUS
Abstract NGamer was a short-lived magazine by Imagine Media covering Ninetndo games and platforms, billed as "the magazine for Nintendo freaks." NGamer was discontinued almost immediately; Imagine canceled the magazine in November 1999—one month before the publication date listed on the first issue—citing the waning interest in the Nintendo 64 as the reason for its cancelation. Not to...
Dates: Publication: December / January 2000

Game Intelligence Magazine

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEINTEL
Abstract

Game Intelligence Magazine was a short-lived trade publication covering the video game business, intended for a wide audience of video game professionals. Very few issues of the magazine were produced before it appears to have been discontinued.

Dates: Publication: September 1998 – February 1999?

Tomb Raider comic magazines

 Collection
Identifier: MAG-TOMBRAIDER
Abstract

From 1999–2005, Top Cow Productions published a comic book based on the Tomb Raider game franchise. The comic was syndicated in multiple different Tomb Raider magazines published in both the United States and United Kingdom, with some limited supplemental content.

Dates: 2001–2002?

Internet Underground

 Series
Identifier: MAG-IUNDERGROUND
Abstract Internet Underground was an internet culture magazine by Sendai Publishing, the publishers of Electronic Gaming Monthly. Like other internet magazines published in the mid-1990s, Internet Underground covered current topics in internet culture. The magazine also included featured articles and reviews of popular websites at a time when the web was small enough to cover within the scope of a magazine. Internet Underground ran for about a year and a half. According to ...
Dates: December 1995 – June 1997

MultiMedia Merchandising

 Series
Identifier: MAG-MMM
Abstract MultMedia Merchandising (stylized as M³) was a magazine for retailers that covered the electronic entertainment market. The magazine focused on retail trends and lists of best-selling titles across the interactive entertainment space, including console games, educational computer software, and interactive music CDs. Issues also included spotlights on specific stores that sold multimedia. With exceptions, the magazine was published monthly and is known to have run...
Dates: Publication: 1994–1996?

Computer Game Entertainment

 Series
Identifier: MAG-CGE
Abstract

Computer Game Entertainment was a short-lived computer game magazine published in the United States in the late 1990s by Punchline Publishing. The magazine ran is believed to have run for five issues, ending in early 1998.

Dates: Publication: 1997–est. 1998

Arcade Express / Electronic Games Hotline

 Series
Identifier: MAG-ARCADEEXPRESS
Abstract

Arcade Express (later named Electronic Games Hotline) was a biweekly newsletter supplement to the magazine Electronic Games, covering breaking news, reviews, and other stories that may not have been covered in the monthly magazine.

Dates: Publication: August 1982 – August 1984

NewMedia

 Series
Identifier: MAG-NEWMEDIA
Abstract NewMedia was a magazine that covered emerging multimedia technologies in the 1990s. Each issue covered a range of multimedia development tools, consumer-facing content such as games and hardware, and articles about industry trends. The magazine was discontinued in 1999 at the tail end of the multimedia era. The magazine is notable for hosting the Invision Awards, which were given to multimedia titles. Recipients included games as well as educational software, informational and...
Dates: 1991–1999