Computer Game Review

Series

Identifier: MAG-CGR

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Scope and Contents

The collection includes all 59 issues of Computer Game Review, all five supplementary issues of CD-ROM Entertainment, and both issues of the preceding Sendai computer gme magazine, Computer Fun & Games.

The library's physical collection also includes several special issues and supplements that were distributed with the magazine. Many of the supplements were acquired separately and are undated; it is unknown which issues they were bundled with, and they were cataloged independently.

Dates

Publication: June 1990 – June 1996

Creator

Sendai Publishing (Publisher, Organization)

Full Extent

72 Magazines

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Computer Game Review (abbreviated CGR) was a computer game magazine by Sendai Publishing, publishers of Electronic Gaming Monthly. Although it was a computer game magazine, early issues of CGR also covered console games, giving it the short-lived title Computer Game Review and 16-Bit Entertainment. The magazine eventually adopted the multimedia-focused title Computer Game Review and CD-ROM Entertainment for most of its run, briefly breaking out CD-ROM Entertainment into a supplement in 1994.

CGR was preceded by a similar publication from Sendai, Computer Fun & Games, which ran for two issues in 1990.

The magazine was canceled in 1996 when Sendai was acquired by Ziff Davis, Inc., which already published its own computer game magazine, Computer Gaming World.

Arrangement

Given its short run, we have chosen to catalog Computer Fun & Games with Computer Game Review. The two magazines ran about one year apart and have similar formats; we consider CF&G to be the direct predecessor to CGR.