Game Hits
Scope and Contents
This is a partial collection of Game Hits, primarily from 1994–1995. At least one issue in the library's collection is missing its internal pages.
Dates
- Publication: 1993–1996?
Creator
- Connell Communications Inc (Publisher, Organization)
Full Extent
7 Magazines
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Game Hits was a free tabloid-style magazine distributed at game stores in the United States in the mid-1990s. The magazine featured short descriptions of games with large screenshots and art assets, presumably to entice store customers, with an emphasis on providing game hits and cheat codes.
The magazine ran from 1993 until at least April 1996; it is unclear how many issues of Game Hits were published.
Game Hits was independently published by New Hampshire-based Connell Communications Inc., which also distributed the promotional tabloids Video Event and Take One to video stores.
Custodial History
The majority of the library's copies of Game Hits were donated by former editor-in-chief Tom Russo, who later served as the editor-in-chief of Next Generation magazine.
Holdings
Held:
- Volume 1, Number 6
- Volume 2, Numbers 9–12
- Volume 3, Numbers 1, 3–4
Known Mising:
- Volume 1, Numbers 1–5 (July–November 1993?)
- Volume 2, Numbers 1–8 (January–August 1994)
- Volume 2, Number 11 (November 1994) [missing pages]
- Volume 3, Number 2 (February 1995)
- Volume 3, Number 5 – Volume 4, Number 4 (May 1995 – April 1996)
- Any after Volume 4, Number 4, if they exist (May 1996–)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Video Game History Foundation Library Repository