Computer games

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

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

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / The Dirty Book

The Edutainment Catalog, Spring 1997

Item

Identifier: PROMO-RETAILER.TEC.1997.SPRING

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

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / Retailer catalogs

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

Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / Game Player's / Game Players / Game Buyer / Game Player's / 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: This collection includes every known issue of Game Players in its various forms.Game Players was originally published as the Game Player's Guide, which alternated between covering Nintendo games and MS-DOS PC games. After four issues, it was relaunched as three separate magazines, covering Nintendo, PC, and general gaming, respectively. Several spinoff magazines followed, covering other platforms.All three editions of Game Player's...

Dates: Publication: December 1988/January 1989

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

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