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Cover of the October 2011 issue of PC World Once an excellent PC magazine, PC World had declined significantly by 2011. The page count wa...

This 1988 ad is for the initial computer ports of Gauntlet and Paperboy which were done by Mindscape. Gauntlet started life as an arcade ...

I picked up this laptop because of its relative uniqueness. First, it's a Fujitsu which I haven't had much experience with (except for on...

Might and Magic II, subtitled "Gates to Another World", was originally developed as a computer role playing game for the Apple ...

This ad is from the Fall 1983 issue of Video & Arcade Games. It is for a joystick called "Triga Command" by Electra Concept...

Predator 2 was released in 1990 and is based on the movie of the same name. You take the role of a Los Angeles police Lieutenant whose un...

Defender of the Crown was initially released in 1986 for the Amiga and subsequently ported to a number of other systems. It was the first...

Cover of the May 29, 1984 issue of PC Magazine PC Magazine was one of the most popular PC magazines around from the early to mid 1980s th...

Cover of the August 1985 issue of Byte If you were interested in in-depth technical coverage then I think Byte was the best multiformat c...

Cover of the December 1984 issue of Compute!'s Gazette Compute!'s Gazette was the most successful spinoff of the more general Compute! ma...

Cover of the July 1985 issue of PC World PC World was one of two PC magazines that really dominated in the 1980s and 1990s (the other bei...

While I'm pretty familiar with MicroProse's Airborne Ranger, I was less familiar with its sequel, Special Forces. Part of this is probabl...

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of yea...

Cover of the April 1984 issue of Personal Computer Games Personal Computer Games is a computer gaming magazine that was published in the ...

Atari Football, also known as just Football and most commonly RealSports Football, is a very early and very rudimentary football video ga...

The Coleco Adam was a very short-lived computer system based largely on the ColecoVision video game system. Because of its short-lived na...

Cover of the November 1990 issue of Computer Shopper This issue of Computer shopper weighs in at nearly 900 pages. How many people have e...

The Pawn was an adventure game originally released for the Sinclair QL in 1985 by a company called Magnetic Scrolls and then ported to a ...

Cover of the October 1991 issue of Info At this point, the name of the magazine was .info for Amiga Users though it went through slightly...

Cover of the December 1987 issue of Computer Gaming World Computer Gaming World was really the best computer gaming magazine available fo...

Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer was developed by Spectrum Holobyte and released by Electronic Arts for the IBM PC and Commodore 64...

Cover of the September 1997 issue of PC World As can be seen by the page count at nearly 400 pages, the late 1990s were probably near the...

Cover of the January 1992 issue of Amstrad Computer User The Amstrad CPC line of computers was Z80 base and could run AMDOS or CP/M. It w...

Cover of the September 1983 issue of Computer & Video Games Computer & Video Games was one of the earliest and longest running vi...

eMachines were known for their bargain basement priced computers. Unfortunately, while they were certainly cheap for their time, you got ...

While text adventures are pretty niche now, back when computers were much more limited they were quite popular. No series was more popula...

Cover of the November/December 1984 issue of Commodore Microcomputers Commodore had a number of official publications over the years. Wel...

Cover of the April 1998 issue of MacAddict I was never really a Mac person but if I had been, this is the magazine I would have read. It ...

Commodore 64C If you are someone who pays any attention to what I post here on Hive then you probably realize that old computers are a ho...

Cover of the November 1990 issue of Advanced Computer Entertainment Advanced Computer Entertainment, or ACE for short, was a gaming magaz...