This is a list of video game magazines . The primary focus of the magazines in this list is or was video game journalism for at least part of their run. For general computing magazines that may also cover games, consult the list of computer magazines .
7-531: Journalist reporting and evaluation of video games in periodicals began from the late 1970s to 1980 in general coin-operated industry magazines like Play Meter and RePlay , home entertainment magazines like Video , as well as magazines focused on computing and new information technologies like InfoWorld or Popular Electronics . However, dedicated magazines focusing primarily on video game journalism wouldn't appear until late in 1981, when several magazines were launched independently of each other at about
14-536: A criticism of those in print games journalism who had not adapted to the web, drawing on his own prior experience in print to offer an explanation of both the challenges facing companies like Future Publishing and why he believed they had not overcome them. Play Meter Play Meter (initially Coin Industry Play Meter ) was an American trade magazine focusing on the coin-op amusement arcade industry, including jukebox and arcade game machines. It
21-605: A specific video game console , was Tokuma Shoten 's Family Computer Magazine , which began in 1985 and was focused on Nintendo 's Family Computer (Nintendo Entertainment System in the West). This magazine later spawned famous imitators such as Famicom Tsuushin (loosely, "Famicom Journal") in 1986 (now known today as Famitsu ) and Nintendo Power in 1988. In the mid-2000s, the popularity of print-based magazines started to wane in favor of web-based magazines. In 2006, Eurogamer ' s business development manager Pat Garratt wrote
28-431: Is the earliest example of video game journalism , establishing such practices as individual video game reviews and the ten-point assessment scale for video game reviews. Play Meter served as the parent organization of the first coin-op-oriented spring trade show (forerunner to North America's annual Amusement Expo ). It published several bi-monthly and annual special issues throughout its history and it maintains
35-563: The latter. The video game crash of 1983 badly hurt the market for North American video game magazines. Computer Gaming World , founded in 1981, stated in 1987 that it was the only survivor of 18 color magazines for computer games in 1984. Meanwhile, in Japan, the first magazines entirely dedicated to video games began appearing from 1982, beginning with ASCII 's LOGiN , followed by several SoftBank publications and Kadokawa Shoten 's Comptiq . The first magazine dedicated to console games , or
42-544: The same time. Computer and Video Games premiered in the U.K. in November 1981. It was soon followed by Electronic Games in the US, founded by Bill Kunkel, Arnie Katz and Joyce Worley, who had previously written the "Arcade Alley" column in Video . While Electronic Games covered arcade and console games as well as computer software , Computer Gaming World was focused entirely on
49-455: Was founded in December 1974 by publisher and editor Ralph C. Lally II and it is published in physical form by Skybird Publishing on a monthly basis. Together with rival publication RePlay (founded 1975) it chronicled the arcade industry from its nascency, through market fluctuations like the video game crashes of 1977 and 1983 , and the rebirth and maturation of the medium through the 1980s. It
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