Game Players
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Game Players was a monthly video game magazine founded by Robert C. Lock in 1989 and originally published by Signal Research in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Categories | Video game journalism |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Signal Research (1989–1992) GP Publications (1992–1994) Imagine Media (1994–1998) |
Founder | Robert C. Lock |
Founded | May 30, 1989; 34 years ago (1989-05-30) |
Final issue | June 1998 (1998-06) |
Country | USA |
Based in | Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. (later Burlingame, California, U.S.) |
Language | English |
ISSN | 1087-2779 |
OCLC | 34042091 |
The original publication began as Game Players Strategy to Nintendo Games (the cover featured a disclaimer that claimed it had no affiliation with Nintendo, which already had its official publication in Nintendo Power). The magazine evolved over the years, spinning off a separate publication called Game Players Sega Genesis Guide when Sega entered the console market. These two magazines were later folded together into one magazine.
In 1996, the magazine changed its name to Ultra Game Players and introduced a radically different format. At the end of its run, it turned into Game Buyer, before being cancelled in 1998.[1]