Children's magazines

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110% Gaming is a British gaming magazine for kids, focusing on current titles with an emphasis on live games such as Minecraft, Fortnite, and Roblox. The magazine also features interviews with gaming YouTube personalities. Most regular issues of 110% Gaming were sold in a polybag that included toys, collectibles, and other trinkets for readers.

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Arcade was an early children's arcade magazine that was published together with Dynamite, a children's celebrity magazine by Scholastic. Both magazines were printed as a single publication, with each taking up a portion of the issue. The back cover of Dynamite was the front cover of Arcade, and vice-versa.

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Boys' Life (later titled Scout Life) is the official monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America, which has been running since March 1911. The magazine covers a variety of youth lifestyle topics. Relevant to this collection, the 1980s and 1990s issues of Boys' Life covered video games.

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Newsstand magazine publisher Centennial Media (later a360media) operates the children's gaming magazine brand Gaming Fun, which they publish under various different Centennial magazine labels, including Centennial Presents, Centennial Home, and Centennial Spotlight. Each issue covers one game franchise, typically an ongoing live service game like Fortnite or Roblox.

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British publisher Egmont publishes a variety of children's magazines in the UK, some of which will have issues about video games. The library has collected several of these issues.

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Enter: The World of Computers and Electronic Games (rebranded Enter: The World of Computers and New Technology in March 1984) was a magazine by Children's Television Workshop that focused on emerging computer technology, especially computer and arcade games.

Abstract Imagine Town Magazine (originally titled Game Candy) was a magazine supplement published by Ubisoft in the late 2000s and early 2010s to promote their line of casual games for girls. This magazine appears to have been distributed as a pack-in with lifestyle magazines for teen and preteen girls, such as Discovery Girls and Six7*8th. ...

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Several magazine publishers, particularly in the United Kingdom, published children's magazines about the game Minecraft. These magazines covered game strategies, new game content, community creations, and ideas for building projects and activities.

Abstract Minecraft World (formally Minecraft World Magazine) wa an unofficial British magazine for kids about the Minecraft franchise. The magazine covered updates to the game, as well as strategies, build ideas, and user-generated content. Many issues of Minecraft World were sold in a polybag that included supplemental inserts, like guides, posters, sticker sheets, and small toys.The original publisher of Minecraft World, Dennis Publishing, was acquired by Future plc in August 2021, around...

Abstract Penny Power (later titled Zillions) was a consumer economics magazine for children, publishing by the makers of Consumer Reports. Like the adult version of Consumer Reports, Penny Power reviews and analyzed products for children and their associated costs. This included coverage of video games and electronic games. The magazine was relaunched under the name Zillions in mid-1990, though its content remained the same.Across its entire run, the magazine was...