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8bitgamer
01-01-2013, 12:19 PM
Do any of you remember a magazine called Video Game Update? I believe it was a small press publication that ran all through the eighties, and it was the only contemporary magazine to review the early NES output, such as Super Mario Bros. (If I'm not mistaken--I've never seen a copy of the mag).

I'm looking for issues scanned online, or hard copies to purchase. If you have any info, please let me know.

Thanks!

slapdash
01-05-2013, 10:05 PM
It wasn't really a magazine, but more of a newsletter. I have a fair stack, but not all of them. They've always seemed a little hard to find, but I'd love to find more. It became the Computer Entertainer after the first two years. The seem to have managed to stay monthly for most/all of their reign, but I'm missing the first three, so I can't swear if the first issue was Apr 82 or not; but 1-4 was Jul 82 for sure. I have a gapless run of VGU from 1-4 to 2-12 (Mar 84), and Computer Entertainer from 3-1 (Apr 84) to 4-10 (Jan 86). I also have a partial copy of 8-10, Jan 90, which shows that they made it at least four more years over what I have, and stayed monthly the whole time! (Well, barring a skipped month followed by a double issue, or something like that...)