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PC Gamer
Jonathan Bolding

One of the first ever American videogame magazines is now available online for free

One of the first American videogame magazines is now available for anyone to read, enjoy, and remix thanks to the Video Game History Foundation. Computer Entertainer, which ran from 1982 to 1990, surviving even the dark age of the videogame industry collapse, is now completely digitized and available to the public under a Creative Commons 4.0 attribution license.

"Most console game magazines in the US went out of business during the 1983–84 industry crash… except this one," notes the VGHF. "As a result, Computer Entertainer is one of the only sources for American reviews of classic games like The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Super Mario Bros."

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