Computer Games (1983)
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| Computer Games | |
|---|---|
| |
| Editor | Dan Gutman |
| Categories | Arcade and home video games |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| First Issue | Dec/Jan 1984 |
| Final Issue — Number | Jan/Feb 1985 7 |
| Publisher | Carnegie Publications Corp. |
| Country | USA |
Computer Games was a classic-era game magazine devoted to all forms of video and computer games. It was a rebranded version of Video Games Player, and despite its name, it still extensively covered game consoles and the arcade scene. It is unrelated to the current Computer Games.
History
Like Video Game Player, Computer Games was founded and edited by Dan Gutman, a New Jersey-based writer who would later have much greater success as a writer of children's books. The rest of the contributing writers, including Shay Addams, Owen Linzmayer, and Michael Rubin, were freelancers whose work also appeared in magazines like Computer Gaming World and Electronic Games.
The magazine was essentially similar to Electronic Games, although with a slightly more upscale design closer in feel to Joystik. There were a couple of younger-skewing sections (including an educational-game column written in tongue-in-cheek style by "Stick Masters"), but the magazine is overall text-heavy, adult oriented, and even has a unique, occasionally downright wacky sense of humor.
Carnegie published nearly twice as many Computer Games issues as Video Games Player, but the name change couldn't help it survive the lean period following the 1984 industry crash, and the magazine folded in early 1985.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| 1983 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1984 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||||
| 1985 | 7 |
