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The Logical Gamer

 Series
Identifier: MAG-LOGICAL
The Logical Gamer
The Logical Gamer

Scope and Contents

The library has five physical issues of The Logical Gamer, along with digitized scans of the complete run of the magazine. Logical Gamer editorial assistant Bill Barton has given the Video Game History Foundation permission to digitize and share his own copies of the magazine,; in some cases, to avoid redigitizing materials, existing scans from the Internet Archive were used instead.

Dates

  • August 1982 – December 1983

Creator

Extent

16 Magazines

Language of Materials

English

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.

Holdings

Held (physical):

  • Volume 1, Numbers 9–12
  • Volume 2, Number 2

Known Missing (physical):

  • Volume 1, Numbers 1–8
  • Volume 2, Numbers 1, 3–4

Creator

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Video Game History Foundation Library Repository

Contact:
P.O. Box 22458
Oakland California 94609