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"The Final Level: Farewell from Game Informer" subscriber letter, August 2, 2024

Item

Identifier: MAG-GAMEINFORMER-SPECIAL.LETTER.1

Abstract

This email was sent to Game Informer subscribers by GameStop on August 2, 2024 to announce the end of the magazine under GameStop. After this email was sent, the entire Game Informer website was replaced with the same statement.

Dates: Issued: August 2, 2024

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / Game Informer / Game Informer special issues and supplements

The First Decade of Computer Games supplement, November/December 1992

Item — Location Game Players

Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS-PC.V5N6.SUPPLEMENT

Abstract

This supplement to Game Players PC Entertainment contains a 32-page history of the early computer game industry, based in part on interviews with early key game designers and executives that have not been republished. The supplement was distributed with Game Players PC Entertainment, Volume 5, Number 6 (November/December 1992).

Dates: Publication: November/December 1992

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / Game Player's / Game Players / Game Buyer / Game Player's and spinoff magazines / Game Player's, PC / Game Players PC Entertainment, Volume 5, Number 6

The Game Player's Guide to MS-DOS Computer Games, Volume 1, Number 2, December 1988/January 1989

Item — Location Game Players

Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS-GPGUIDE.V1N2

Scope and Contents From the Series: The library's physical collection includes every known issue of Game Players in its various forms. Our digital library currently includes almost all issues of the magazine, with an exception of one issue of Game Player's PC (Volume 3, Number 1, January/February 1990) and several editions of Game Player's Encyclopedia.Game Players was originally published as the Game Player's Guide, which alternated between covering Nintendo games and MS-DOS PC games....

Dates: Publication: December 1988/January 1989

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / Game Player's / Game Players / Game Buyer / Game Player's Guide

The Game Player's Guide to Nintendo, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1988

Item — Location Game Players

Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS-GPGUIDE.V1N1

Scope and Contents From the Series: The library's physical collection includes every known issue of Game Players in its various forms. Our digital library currently includes almost all issues of the magazine, with an exception of one issue of Game Player's PC (Volume 3, Number 1, January/February 1990) and several editions of Game Player's Encyclopedia.Game Players was originally published as the Game Player's Guide, which alternated between covering Nintendo games and MS-DOS PC games....

Dates: Publication: Winter 1988

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / Game Player's / Game Players / Game Buyer / Game Player's Guide

The Gex Wire, Volume 2 foldout newsletter, 1997

Item — Location Duplicate materials for display

Identifier: PROMO-KITS.CDYNAMICS.1

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a collection of folders and catalogs that video game publishers used to advertise their games. Based on the included information, it is unclear if these were intended for retailers or the press, possibly both, since they contain information about product ordering as well as general press releases. Unless otherwise noted, the original provenance of these folders is unclear.

Dates: Publication: 1997

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / Game publisher publicity kits, brochures, and catalogs, assorted

The Hollywood Reporter, "Salute to Industrial Light & Magic", April 9, 1991

Item — Location News and media magazines

Identifier: MAG-NEWSMAGS-THR.1994.04.09

Abstract

This special issue of The Hollywood Reporter celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic speical effects division. It is unclear why the Video Game History Foundation originally acquired this issue, though it is likely related to ILM's connection with Lucasfilm Games. The only relevant mention of Lucasfilm Games is in a congratulatory advertisement (p.S-6).

Dates: Publication: April 9, 1991

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / News and media magazines, assorted

The Journal of Computer Game Design

Series

Identifier: MAG-JCGD

Abstract The Journal of Computer Game Design was an early journal for the electronic games industry, edited and self-published by Chris Crawford, the founder of the Game Developers Conference. Many articles in the journal were written by Crawford's early collaborators in the computer game industry.Over its nine-year run, the journal's content shifted away from technical writing and industry news, focusing heavily more game design theory and editorial articles, often written by Crawford...

Dates: June 1987 – August 1996

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library