VideoGames & Computer Entertainment

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
VG&CE began as a spinoff of <a href="/facts/ANALOG_Computing/Iv24wDGy">ANALOG Computing</a>, a magazine published by LFP devoted to <a href="/facts/Atari_8-bit_computers/aT04N5zR">Atari 8-bit computers</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1">1</a>

VG&CE was started at LFP by <a href="/facts/Lee_H._Pappas/Sr8Qv6hS">Lee H. Pappas</a> (publisher), with <a href="/facts/Andy_Eddy/S5fzJUPd">Andy Eddy</a> as executive editor (Eddy was a freelance contributor to the first issue of the magazine, which had the cover date of December 1988, just before relocating to <a href="/facts/California/zLW2vdQJ">California</a> in September 1988 to become its editor before the first issue hit the streets. During Eddy's tenure at the magazine, there was no one listed as editor-in-chief, simply due to odd staff-titling decisions.) Contributors included <a href="/facts/Arnie_Katz/faQlrcft">Arnie Katz</a> and <a href="/facts/Bill_Kunkel_(journalist)/qzcchhzl">Bill "The Game Doctor" Kunkel</a>, co-founders of the first video game magazine, <a href="/facts/Electronic_Games/IsuVjT4T">Electronic Games</a>. <a href="/facts/Tips_%26_Tricks/eHnKJdXg">Tips & Tricks</a> editor-in-chief Chris Bieniek was an associate editor at VG&CE. Computer Player editor-in-chief Mike Davila was an associate editor and later executive editor at VG&CE. <a href="/facts/Knights_of_Xentar/587IhB8a">Knights of Xentar</a> writer David Moskowitz was also an associate editor covering news and computer games during the Eddy/Davila/Bieniek tenure.

<h3>VideoGames - The Ultimate Gaming Magazine</h3>

The magazine was renamed into VideoGames - The Ultimate Gaming Magazine<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a> starting with the September 1993 issue and dropped computer game coverage. 
In an effort to compete with magazines popular at the time, such as <a href="/facts/GamePro/3DujtsPu">GamePro</a>, the magazine was made more child-friendly with vibrant colors and issues often featured a videogame cheat printed on the cover, labelled as a "free code" (this ended in late 1994). For much of this era, <a href="/facts/Chris_Gore/oFMpz1gr">Chris Gore</a> was editor-in-chief, and it had a monthly news and gossip column "The Gore Score". The magazine ended publication in late 1996, when <a href="/facts/Ziff-Davis/QLs2JQEB">Ziff-Davis</a> bought VideoGames from LFP and folded the brand.

<h2 id="spin-off-magazines">Spin-off magazines</h2>
VG&CE spun off several other video game magazines:

<ul><li><a href="/facts/TurboPlay/eSRqJ7lA">TurboPlay</a> (June/July 1990-August/September 1992), a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to covering <a href="/facts/TurboGrafx-16/MBWz7xPU">TurboGrafx-16</a> hardware and software.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Tips_%26_Tricks_(magazine)/eHnKJdXg">Tips & Tricks</a> (February 1995-August 2007), a game magazine dedicated to game strategies and cheat codes. The magazine concept was spun out of the "Easter Egg Hunt" and "Tips & Tricks" sections in VG&CE, which offered extensive codes and cheats for video games, as well as the "walkthrough" strategies that VG&CE also provided.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25300986">VideoGames & computer entertainment.</a> at worldcat.org</li>
<li><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29194384">VideoGames.</a> at worldcat.org</li>
<li><a href="http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/special/cb/cb.html">An interview with former associate editor Chris Bieniek</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.defunctgames.com/29magazines/21/magazine-21-video-games-computer-entertainment">Magazine #21: Video Games & Computer Entertainment</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.videogameobsession.com/videogame/mags/vg&ce/index.htm">VideoGames and Computer Entertainment</a>, covers of issues December 1988 to April 1990</li>
<li><a href="https://retrocdn.net/Category:VideoGames_%26_Computer_Entertainment_scans">VideoGames & Computer Entertainment scans</a>, PDF repository of VG&CE</li>
<li><a href="https://retrocdn.net/Category:VideoGames_scans">VideoGames scans</a>, PDF repository of VG</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=video%20games%20the%20ultimate%20gaming%20magazine&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22">Archived Video games the Ultimate Gaming Magazines</a> on the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">VideoGames & Computer Entertainment at gamingmagz.com <a href="http://www.gamingmagz.com/magazines/usa/videogames-computer-entertainment" target="_blank">http://www.gamingmagz.com/magazines/usa/videogames-computer-entertainment</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">The Paper Trail: VideoGames & Computer Entertainment #1 Archived 2012-07-09 at the Wayback Machine at 1up.com <a href="http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9009373" target="_blank">http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9009373</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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