Gamest
Sign in to savewas a Japanese video game magazine that specialized in covering arcade games. Gamest originated from the bi-monthly fanzine VG2 Newsletter from the early 1980s. Following the bankruptcy of publisher Shinseisha, many editors would move to ASCII and create a successor magazine, Monthly Arcadia. The magazine also featured the annual '''Gamest Awards''', which handed out awards to games based on user vote.
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- Instance of
- magazine
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Main subject
- arcade video game machine
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- inception
- 1986-01-01
- publication date
- 1986-05-05
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- end time
- 1999-09-30
- start time
- 1986-05-05
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was a Japanese video game magazine that specialized in covering arcade games. Gamest originated from the bi-monthly fanzine VG2 Newsletter from the early 1980s. Following the bankruptcy of publisher Shinseisha, many editors would move to ASCII and create a successor magazine, Monthly Arcadia. The magazine also featured the annual '''Gamest Awards''', which handed out awards to games based on user vote.
== Description == Published by Shinseisha, the magazine first began in May 1986 and was originally published bi-monthly, later changed to be a monthly-issued magazine in the late 1980s. The magazine had a heavy-focus on shoot 'em up arcade games, but would also cover games from other genres. The magazine ran for several years, with its final issue being released in September 1999. Gamest was subdivided into three sections: , Report, and Comic. == History == Gamest arose from the early 1980s bimonthly fanzine which was also called edited by .
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