Computer games

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

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 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