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Column: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Thanksgiving Break

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2008-12-01 16:00:35 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...Mag Weaseling' is a weekly column by Kevin Gifford which documents the history of video game magazines, from their birth in the early '80s to the current day Everyone needs a break now and again -- I know I do, after having written about what seems like 20,000 magazines over the years here -- so for this holiday, I thought I'd cover a couple...
 
Tags: mag, design, edge-like visual design, hobbyist mag, game mag, visual design, computer mag, amateur-radio mag, cover design
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Japan Mag Roundup 2008

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2008-04-27 08:00:59 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...mag in Japan while traveling there on holiday, and I thought I'd tell you a bit about what I've found A quick history of J-mags From the late 1970s, video games received coverage in Japan's PC mags and kids' manga anthologies. The first mags entirely devoted to games popped up in 1982, starting with ASCII's LOGiN and Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq...
 
Tags: game mag, game, weekly game mag, japanese, japanese mag, popular game mag, game websites, game mags, video-game magazine
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 1/12/08

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2008-01-14 08:00:05 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...mag I worked for) will be discontinued with its February 2008 issue , which will be on stands in a little while. In its place, we will be launching PiQ, a magazine that covers the entire range of (for lack of a better term) "genre entertainment There's still much work left to be done on PiQ before I have anything more interesting to say about...
 
Tags: game, mag, print media, media, video-game, game title, print-mag editor, media coverage corner, gamepro february
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 8/2/08

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2008-08-03 00:00:59 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...Mag Weaseling' is a weekly column by Kevin Gifford which documents the history of video game magazines, from their birth in the early '80s to the current day Welcome to Mag Roundup, my regular roundup of all the game magazines that hit newsstands and/or mailboxes in the past two weeks. Excited? Sure you are! And so is Washington Redskins...
 
Tags: mag roundup, mag, game mag, retro gamer, retro gamer level, issue, damn issue, gamer, cover
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 9/13/08

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2008-09-13 08:00:37 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...mag fans! If CNN and Fox News are to be believed, by the time you read this, I am going to be dead, my bloated, bleached body floating listlessly in brackish mire, surrounded by waterlogged issues of Game Players' Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games. I'm writing this on Thursday, and I've already put all my affairs in order -- my ferrets are...
 
Tags: game, game players, game mag collection, game mags, game manuals, video-game, game companies, game mag fans, mag
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 10/11/08

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2008-10-13 16:00:00 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...magazine cover you've ever seen ? The Cooper Black font, the eerie CGI bits, the way everything fits together like a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces broken and crushed in a vain attempt to make them snap together? This is what we need more of, people! (And yes, I really did buy the mag just for the cover. I dig reading about electronics...
 
Tags: game, magazine, mag, magazine cover, mags, mags regularly, cover, game mags, cgw cover
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': The Best Japanese Mag You Never Heard Of

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2008-02-24 04:00:56 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...magazines Yugekishu and its unofficial continuation Bug News. They are rarer than hen's teeth in Japan and tend to cost the most money I've seen thrown at old computer/game mags on Yahoo! Auctions when they pop up -- sort of the Japanese equivalent to Electronic Games and old Creative Computing, you could say Yugekishu, an A5-sized monthly...
 
Tags: mag, japanese, game, entire mag, japanese game mag, mags, game mags, game publishers, game pundit
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 5/31/08

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2008-06-01 16:00:23 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...Mag Roundup. Two weeks, there were hardly any magazines to talk about -- this time around, everything came into my mailbox all at once, even the two flight-sim magazines whose subscriptions are (thankfully) about to run out We're beginning to enter the boring season not just for mags, but for games, too -- but that's a good thing, because it...
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 7/5/08

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2008-07-06 00:00:33 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...mags, even though you'd think it wouldn't be what with all everyone in the August-issue doldrums. My collection is beginning to outgrow the room it's in, so I'm working on clearing out space and getting rid of stuff I'm not completely sure I need after all, such as that near-complete collection of 80 Micro (a magazine devoted to Tandy's...
 
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