Computer games
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2036 Collections and/or Records:
Strategy Plus, Issue 7 (UK), April/May 1991
Item — Location Computer Games Strategy Plus
Identifier: MAG-CGSP.007
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This is a partial collection of Computer Games Strategy Plus, as well as several special issues. It is unknown how many of these supplemental guides were published.Most issues in this collection are from the American edition of CGSP, with the exception of the original UK-exclusive ten issues of Strategy Plus.Although the library does not intend to acquire British issues of CGSP, some British issues were shelved with this collection when they were available, sometimes...
Dates:
Publication: April/May 1991
Strategy Plus, Issue 8 (UK), June 1991
Item — Location Computer Games Strategy Plus
Identifier: MAG-CGSP.008
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This is a partial collection of Computer Games Strategy Plus, as well as several special issues. It is unknown how many of these supplemental guides were published.Most issues in this collection are from the American edition of CGSP, with the exception of the original UK-exclusive ten issues of Strategy Plus.Although the library does not intend to acquire British issues of CGSP, some British issues were shelved with this collection when they were available, sometimes...
Dates:
Publication: June 1991
Strategy Plus, Issue 9 (UK), July 1991
Item — Location Computer Games Strategy Plus
Identifier: MAG-CGSP.009
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This is a partial collection of Computer Games Strategy Plus, as well as several special issues. It is unknown how many of these supplemental guides were published.Most issues in this collection are from the American edition of CGSP, with the exception of the original UK-exclusive ten issues of Strategy Plus.Although the library does not intend to acquire British issues of CGSP, some British issues were shelved with this collection when they were available, sometimes...
Dates:
Publication: July 1991
Strategy Plus, Issue 10 (UK), August 1991
Item — Location Computer Games Strategy Plus
Identifier: MAG-CGSP.010
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This is a partial collection of Computer Games Strategy Plus, as well as several special issues. It is unknown how many of these supplemental guides were published.Most issues in this collection are from the American edition of CGSP, with the exception of the original UK-exclusive ten issues of Strategy Plus.Although the library does not intend to acquire British issues of CGSP, some British issues were shelved with this collection when they were available, sometimes...
Dates:
Publication: August 1991
The Aviator's Guide to Flight Simulation supplement, 2021
Item — Location PC Pilot
Identifier: MAG-PCPILOT.AVIATORSGUIDE
Abstract
This supplement to PC Pilot commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of Aerosoft, a company that develops and publishes simulator games. According to the cover, the issue was produced "in association with Aerosoft," likely a paid promotion. The folio on the bottom of each page lists this magazine's title as PC Pilot Aerosoft Supplement.This supplement was believed to have been bundled with an issue of PC Pilot; however, it is unclear which issue...
Dates:
Copyright: 2021
The Aviator's Guide to Flight Simulation supplement, May/June 2023
Item — Location PC Pilot
Identifier: MAG-PCPILOT.145.AVIATORSGUIDE
Abstract
This issue was co-produced by Just Flight, a developer of flight simulation game add-ons. This was likely a paid promotion. The folio on the bottom of each page lists this magazine's title as PC Pilot Just Flight Supplement.
Dates:
Publication: May/June 2023
The Dirty Book
Series
Identifier: MAG-DIRTYBOOK
Abstract
The Dirty Book (subtitled "Users Guide to Erotic Software") was a biannual magazine covering the early adult software industry in the 1980s. Originally started as a catalog for adult software distributors whose products were not carried by other catalogs and retailers, The Dirty Book evolved into a longer publication that contained jokes and stories about sex and computers. It is unclear how long the magazine ran, though it appears to have started in 1981...
Dates:
Publication: 1981– 198?
Found in:
Video Game History Foundation Library
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The Dirty Book
The Dirty Book, Volume 2, Number 2, last quarter 1982
Item
Identifier: MAG-DIRTYBOOK.V2N2
Scope and Contents
The scanned copy of this issue is missing its software ordering form, which appears to have been included with the dirty book (based on other known issues)
Content Note: The Dirty Book includes sexual imagery; graphic, crude descriptions of sexual content; and extensive coverage of adult software.
Dates:
Publication: last quarter 1982
The Edutainment Catalog, Spring 1997
Item
Identifier: PROMO-RETAILER.TEC.1997SPRING
Scope and Contents
The library's scan of this catalog includes a shipping envelope and an advertisement insert for the software Music Ace. It is unclear where the Music Ace insert was originally placed in the catalog, so both extras were placed at the end of the scan.
Dates:
Publication: Spring 1997
The First Decade of Computer Games supplement, November/December 1992
Item — Location Game Players
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS-PC.V5N6.SUPPLEMENT
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
Publication: November/December 1992