Ed Oscuro
04-19-2007, 12:50 PM
Yes, classic Forbes magazine. A local library is dumping a whole cart full of Forbes magazines from 1993-1998 (at least) and already I found an article from January 18, 1993 entitled "Japan: Videogames" with a picture of Henk Rogers behind a stack of Tetris games (either the Mega Drive or X68000 version, I can't tell), and a picture of programmers in an untidy Telnet Japan office; one has a boxed Mega Drive next to his chair and another seems to have a sprite editor open. There's a guy sleeping on a couch in the foreground.
Every issue I've looked at has in-depth coverage of computers, but I haven't seen too many about gaming - another article I found discussed some crap startup that was marketing notebook-sized devices that would let you play along with contestants on Jeopardy.
There's a raft of ads, but nothing for a game company so far...lots of hilariously bad advertisements for long-dead AST Computer, and a Sony ad for the PIX-100 multimedia player ("It's a CD player that plays ideas. It's computer technology that sings, and makes business information move and talk.")
Still looking to see if I can't find an article on iD somewhere in here...not yet.
Every issue I've looked at has in-depth coverage of computers, but I haven't seen too many about gaming - another article I found discussed some crap startup that was marketing notebook-sized devices that would let you play along with contestants on Jeopardy.
There's a raft of ads, but nothing for a game company so far...lots of hilariously bad advertisements for long-dead AST Computer, and a Sony ad for the PIX-100 multimedia player ("It's a CD player that plays ideas. It's computer technology that sings, and makes business information move and talk.")
Still looking to see if I can't find an article on iD somewhere in here...not yet.