Electronic Games / Computer Entertainment
Scope and Contents
This collection includes all 34 issues of Electronic Games, all four issues of Computer Entertainment, and the three special buyers guides and software encyclopedia published with Electronic Games.
Dates
- Publication: Winter 1981 – August 1985
Creator
- Reese Publications (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
41 Magazines
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Electronic Games is the earliest known American magazine dedicated to video games. The magazine was spun off from Arcade Alley, a column previously published in Video magazine, also owned by Reese Publishing Company. Electronic Games was a formative magazine for video game journalism and was the starting place for several notable early video game journalists, including Arnie Katz, Bill Kunkel, and Joyce Worley.
Electronic Games was discontinued in 1985 and reworked as the more broadly focused Computer Entertainment, which lasted for only four issues.
Holdings
Held:
- Electronic Games:
- Volume 1, Number 1 – Volume 3, Number 4
- Special issues:
- Electronic Games 1983 Buyers Guide
- Electronic Games 1983 Software Encyclopedia
- Electronic Games 1984 Software Encyclopedia
- Computer Entertainment:
- Volume 3, Numbers 5–8
Creator
- Reese Publications (Publisher, Organization)
- Arnie Katz (Editor, Person)
- Bill Kunkel, 1950-2011 (Editor, Person)
- Joyce Worley Katz, 1939-2016 (Editor, Person)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Video Game History Foundation Library Repository