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This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for computer and technology enthusiasts or users. The majority of these magazines cover general computer topics or several non-specific subject areas, however a few are also specialized to a certain area of computing and are listed separately.
Pages in category "Defunct computer magazines published in the United States" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Consumers typically bought computer magazines more for advertising than articles, which benefited already leading journals like BYTE and PC Magazine and hurt weaker ones. Also affecting magazines was the computer industry's economic difficulties, including the video game crash of 1983, which badly hurt the home-computer market.
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States (2 C, 103 P) V. Defunct video game magazines (2 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Defunct computer magazines"
Home computer magazines were computer magazines catering to the large home computer user community of the 1980s and early 1990s. This class of magazines was responsible for introducing type-in programs and "cover tapes" and, later, cover disks (now replaced by cover CDs/DVDs).
Computer Gaming World, founded in 1981, stated in 1987 that it was the only survivor of 18 color magazines for computer games in 1984. [ 8 ] Meanwhile, in Japan, the first magazines entirely dedicated to video games began appearing from 1982, beginning with ASCII 's LOGiN , followed by several SoftBank publications and Kadokawa Shoten 's Comptiq .
It was the only computer publication on the 1981 Folio 400 list of largest magazines. Byte ' s 1982 average number of pages was 543, and the number of paid advertising pages grew by more than 1,000 while most magazines' amount of advertising did not change. Its circulation of 420,000 was the third highest of all computer magazines. [18]
Pages in category "Computer magazines published in the United States" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
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