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Yeah, sorry about that, it's IDG's that starts as Electronic Entertainment, becomes PC Entertainment and finally settles on PC Games. I actually don't remember ever seeing the other one you just posted the cover from before. Thanks, I should have used "search" on the magazine list page lol I do wonder if they should be treated like Code Vault/GamePro specials, at least from an editorial standpoint on my site. Hmm, wouldn't want them to be part of the numbering, gonna have to think on that one I did notice that though they don't appear on the same page/pages as in at the bottom of Next Generation it would be on the new user to jump back out to the list and click NextGen rather than the list saying Next Generation (NextGen) and having it run contiguous. I think this is more of an "issue" on short-lived market pivots like Electronic Games to Computer Entertainment where someone unfamiliar with the magazine would either have to download and read the last issue to know of the change, or pay close attention to the cover of the first issue in the Gallery here.

Now that I have gone through the majority of my magazine collection I am working on the database for my site. First up are a few missing magazines here at RetroMags. Missing Magazines Computer Play was a short-lived CGW competitor in the late '80s. I have two issues: Issue 4, November 1988 Issue 5, December 1988 There are a couple of site out there preserving this one. I got the numbering based on https://archive.org/details/computerplaymagazine Beckett Massive Online Gamer was one of two MMO-focused magazines I came across. I have the second issue dated August/September 2006, and from generic seraches it appears to have remained bi-monthly throughout it's run which ended in 2011. Here's a post about their last issue: http://thefriendlynecromancer.blogspot.com/2011/12/end-of-era-final-issue-of-becketts.html Massive is another MMO-based magazine. Again I only have a single issue, the debut: The magazine was marked as a quarterly and doesn't have a date beyond the copyright year of 2006. It appears they became MMO Games at some point. Based on the linked article in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMO_Games_Magazine it appears it may have launched in June. There are three covers on a fan Facebook page but otherwise I don't have an issue count on this one either. I don't have quickie scans for the rest as the cat is sleeping on top of the stack of boxes lol but... There is a Code Vault here but tied to GamePro where the issues I have, November 2003 and February 2004, are not in the database so I don't know if they are the same thing. There is already a thread about Computer Games Strategy Plus and a contributor scanning them for their own site. I have a bunch as well but am mainly signposting it for a topic below. Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games is another one I have brought up before, and as far as I can figure, I have both issues that were produced, Spring and Fall of 1983. Electronic Entertainment is another "complicated" one that has three threads here. I have a number of issues across it's run but like Computer Games Strategy Plus I will be handling it differently. I already created a thread for Foul but have found no additional issues or information, probably need to do a bunch more digging before it can be added. Play magazine ran a number of Girls of Gaming specials and am not sure how they fit in. I already have a thread up about Manci Games which only had the two issues I have. Online Arena may be a one-shot so I don't know how it would fit in. Ultimate Gamer has a stub page. I still haven't found the one issue I'm missing but the info in the thread should make it possible to get this one up. Video Games Player also has a thread and a stub. I have two issues plus one of "Computer Games", the name they pivoted to for a short time. This one also has the same naming issue I raise below. My Database I have already synced my database with RetroMags with a fields for the URL and issue number used here, but I'm handling magazines a bit different. I'm not looking to change the ways things done here but did want to raise a particular difference. Since my focus is on research into the hobby/industry the timeline is very important, and to me magazines changing names is just one of those things. So for me Next Generation and NextGen are the same magazine and I have a consistent numbering from start to end rather than restarting at issue 1 and treating them as wholly different publications. While I don't have a browser up yet at my site, the functionality will support clicking NextGen and being taken to the first issue on a page that contains all issues of both Next Generation and NextGen as I consider them a single "publication". The same is true of EGM2/Expert Games, Electronic Games/Computer Entertainment/Electronic Games (1992), Electronic Fun/Computer Fun, Computer Games Strategy Plus/Computer Games Magazine/Computer Games and Video Games Player/Computer Games. For each of these my issue numbering starts at 1 and continues until the end of the run. That is my numbering, I also include any printed issue, volume and number information. I also am trying to get the exact shelf date of the magazines to build a timeline and have been recording as much information as I can. I definitely need to find a magazine distributor like Ingram to nail it all down. I may need to jump back and edit this but food just arrived!

Anyone have any personal videogame artifacts? I have a few and am figuring how best to archive them. Here's one of my favorites: Imagic was my favorite publisher during the first console war. I know this is essentially a form letter but gotta love the embossed logo!

The new issue is done and posted. I hope I did everything correctly in terms up uploading and creating the New Releases post. If there are any problems the RetroMags formatted version is available here: http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1984/04/vg/Video-Games-Issue-019-Apr-1984.cbr My plan was to jump back to the first issue of Video Games and try to knock off the entire run of the magazine sans the one issue I'm missing, and then move over to Electronic Fun with Computers & Games. I know I own most if not all of the "most requested" issues which are for the most part Electronic Gaming Monthly. I also own the requested Video Games & Computer Entertainment issue on the list. Should I continue with the older mags or try to help with a few of the EGMs or VG&CE?

Retromags Presents! Video Games Issue 19 April 1984 Database Entry! Download Directly!