COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: I’m a TV Gamer!

   
Mort, one of the kind and dedicated folks at zzap64.co.uk, has finished scanning yet another complete run of an old British game magazine. This time around it’s TV Gamer, an obscure title that has the honor of being the UK’s first mag devoted entirely to game consoles…or that was the original idea, anyway.
Launched in the summer of 1983 by London-based Boytonbrook Ltd., TV Gamer began as a quarterly buyer’s guide for the 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, and so forth, its pages filled to the brim with capsule game reviews and tiny little black-and-white screenshots.
This lasted three issues before the title expanded to a full-on monthly in March 1984, adding a slew of features on arcades, portable games, and computers. In this incarnation the mag took on a noticeable resemblance to Electronic Games, the US title that pioneered game mags worldwide — both shared an affinity for long, text-heavy articles adorned […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Kevin Gifford) and software by Elliott Back