Video Game Collector

Magazine and complete video game price guide

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Issue #10

Giant-sized Atari Special Issue

Plus The Video Game Collector Price Guide!
Updated checklist and price guide with over 500 new titles added for a total of over 10,000 games!

The video game industry's biggest and most accurate alphabetical checklist and price guide, this issue features a complete checklist and price guide for every video game system from Atari to Xbox 360--over 10,000 prices! Plus, the price guide has been updated with the latest prices and newest releases as well as over 100 full-color photos, including pictures of every system! A complete checklist and price guide of every game on every system, plus articles, reviews, features, interviews and other goodies all for about what you'd pay to rent one game!

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Issue # 9
Spring 2008 Video Game Collector #9
(Better late than never!) Now shipping!

Features
Sega Nights cover story by Michael Thomasson

Proto Patrol by Michael Thomasson

Saturn Final Five feature

Rare Systems feature (our biggest article yet--7 pages with checklists for obscure systems we don't usually include in the price guide)

Retro Retail Report (featuring two classic arcades--Ground Kontrol and 1984 Arcade)

News and Notes
Covering new and upcoming video game releases with classic gaming roots
Collecting Video Game Soundtracks by Kristina Potts
Creator's Spotlight featuring Garry Kitchen
It Came from Saturn (Anime Feature) by Kristina Potts

Collector's Spotlight
Collector's Spotlight featuring Matthew Henzel

Twin Galaxies Scoreboard
Listing the world records and high scores from Twin Galaxies the official video game scoreboard

Japanese Video game Collectibles

Made in Japan by Greg Wilcox

Photo Checklist
Saturn Photo Checklist

Video game reviews
Video Game Reviews (6 pages of 'em)
The Simpsons History in Video Games

VGC Book Report
Classic Home Video Games by Brett Weiss

The Last Quarter by Walter Day
An excerpt from Walter's well-supported response to the film The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Plus The Video Game Collector Price Guide!
Updated checklist and price guide with over 500 new titles added for a total of over 10,000 games!

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Issue # 8

Features
• Amazing NES Photo-checklist featuring hi-rez, full-color images of every domestic NES title ever released!!
• Interview with Defender creator Eugene Jarvis!
• Castlevania series retrospective and interviews
• Mortal Kombat serues retrospective and interview with co-creator Ed Boon

Video game reviews
Lego Star wars 2 - Bucky O'hare - Ultra Bust-a-Move - Menace Beach - and more

NES A-Z
The Good,  The Bad and The Ugly of the NES (in alphabetical order)

Collecting Guide
Game & watch systems with bonus price guide
Activision Patches with bonus checklist

Photo Checklist
Brand new section with full color, hi-rez photos of every boxed Nintendo NES game ever made. 16 pages of the original Nintendo NES games.

News and Notes
Covering new and upcoming video game releases with classic gaming roots

System Showdown
Our newest feature in which we pit two systems against each other!  This issue-- PS3 vs. Genesis 3

Twin Galaxies Scoreboard
Listing the world records and high scores from Twin Galaxies the official video game scoreboard

Collector's Spotlight
We Spotlight a video game collector's video game collection

Made in Japan
Double-sized installment  focusing on Famicom games

Market Watch

The Last Quarter
Eugene Jarvis creator of Defender, Robotron 2084 and the Cruisn' Series

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Issue # 7 - Our giant-sized year-end special!
The Winter 2007 issue of Video Game Collector! A magazine with everything for the video game collector! Articles, interviews, giveaways, and the video game industry's largest and most up to date checklist and price guide!

This issue's features:
• Amazing NES Photo-checklist featuring hi-rez, full-color images of every domestic NES title
ever released!!
• Interview with Defender creator Eugene Jarvis!
• System Showdown - PS3 vs. Genesis 3
• Castlevania series retrospective and interviews
• Mortal Kombat serues retrospective and interview with co-creator Ed Boon
• Twin Galaxies Scoreboard - high scores from Twin Galaxies
• Collecting Guide - Game & watch systems with bonus price guide
• Collecting Guide - Activision Patches with bonus checklist
• Made in Japan - Double-sized installment focusing on Famicom games
• Photo Checklist--Brand new section with full color, hi-rez photos of every boxed Nintendo NES game ever made. 16 pages of the original Nintendo NES games.
• Video game reviews - Lego Star wars 2, Bucky O'hare, Ultra Bust-a-Move, Menace Beach
• NES A-Z - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of the NES (in alphabetical order)
• The Last Quarter - Eugene Jarvis creator of Defender, Robotron 2084 and the Cruisn' Series

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Issue # 6

Features include:
• Superman's history in video games
• Collector's Spotlight
• System Showdown - wii vs. cd-i
• TurboGrafx Timeline
• TurboGrafx-16 Photo Checklist with full-color pics of every US TG-16 title!
• Twin Galaxies Scoreboard
• Double-sized installment of Made in Japan
• Double-sized installment of Homebrew Haven
• Market Watch
• The Last Quarter - collecting arcade marquees
• PRICE GUIDE and CHECKLIST

Reviews:
Word Zapper (Atari 2600)
The Dynastic Hero (Turbo CD)
Jetson's Ways with WOrds (Intellivision)
New Super Mario Bors. (DS)
Bookworm (GBA)
Worms Open Warfare (DS)
Ultimate Puzzle Games (GBA)
Wordtris (SNES)
Rampage Total Destruction (PS2)
Word Feud (ColecoVision)
Magical Chase (TG-16)
Gotzendiener (PC-Engine import)
Meteor Blaster DX (Turbo CD homebrew)

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Issue # 5
Featuring an exclusive interview with all three Dragon's Lair creators--Don Bluth, Rick Dyer and Gary Goldman and VGC uncovers the lost Dragon's Lair 2 scene, complete with Don Bluth's never before seen hand drawn storyboards!  Plus, new features including a fantastic full-color photo checklist of every boxed Intellivision game ever made and the return of all your favorite columns, as well as a completely updated price guide with game and price updates for every system from Atari to Xbox and over 100 color photos.  On-sale now in both a regular edition and a deluxe edition that comes bagged with an exclusive Dragon's Lair mini-cel trading card. 

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Who writes for Video Game Collector?

Some of the many distinguished contributors to Video Game Collector include:
Leonard Herman - author of Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Videogames
Joe Santulli founder of Digital Press
Albert Yarusso founder of Atari Age
Nathan Kozlowski founder of ColecoNation
Walter Day founder of Twin Galaxies
Steve Woita classic game designer
Zach Meston formerly of Working Designs and currently at Atlus

Past issues include interviews or contributions from such video game legends as Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari and inventor of Pong), Don Bluth, Rick Dyer & Gary Goldman (creators of Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace), Ralph Baer (video game pioneer and creator of the Magnavox Odyssey), Howard Scott Warshaw (classic Atari game designer and creator of Once Upon Atari), and David Foster (founder of Digital Leisure and ReadySoft).