Fit for print: Games Media Overview, Summer 1989 | NES Works Special 5

A little something new and different this time: rather than asking what Nintendo Power said, it's a look at what ALL the games magazines were talking about in the summer of 1989. It's "new and different" simply because most of these magazines didn't exist at at the beginning of 1989. By the time gaming went 16-bit, the U.S. console (and computer) games industry had managed to reverse its dismal mid-’80s fortunes enough to support not one, not two, but more than half a dozen games magazines! And that's not even counting PC-specific pubs like Computer Play and the lone pre-crash holdout, Computer Gaming World. And unlike Nintendo Power and Sega Challenge, magazines like EGM, VG&CE, and Game Players were independent and sometimes reported unflattering details about the workings of the biz! (Well, except GamePro, which kind of read like a set of reprinted press releases in its early days.) Please frequent and support the sites whose efforts keep this media accessible to folks like me! gamehistory.org | archive.org | retromags.com Please support this documentation project through Patreon (www.patreon.com/gamespite) or by picking up some of the related books (www.limitedrungames.com/collections/books). Or preorder Metroidvania: The First Decade from a fine book chain or comic shop, such as B&N (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-history-of-metroidvania-jeremy-parish/1148489848?ean=9781506754543). Thanks!