This is a summary of information about the publishing history of the original run of Electronic Games magazine. This information was compiled by Ken Blair from his own collection. Many thanks to Ken for making this available.
It looks like the only consistent thing through the life of the
magazine was the price!
v1 #1 Winter 81 [lks]
v1 #2 Mar 82 [lks]
v1 #3 May 82 $2.95 82 pages bi-monthly
v1 #4 Jun 82 $2.95 82 p monthly
v1 #5 Jul 82 $2.95 90 p monthly
v1 #6 Aug 82 $2.95 90 p monthly
v1 #7 Sep 82 $2.95 98 p monthly
v1 #8 Oct 82 $2.95 106 p monthly
v1 #9 Nov 82 $2.95 122 p monthly
v1 #10 Dec 82 $2.95 138 p monthly
v1 #11 Jan 83 $2.95 130 p monthly
v1 #12 Feb 83 $2.95 114 p monthly
v1 #13 Mar 83 $2.95 114 p monthly
v1 #14 Apr 83 $2.95 114 p monthly
v1 #15 May 83 $2.95 114 p monthly
v1 #16 Jun 83 $2.95 124 p monthly
v1 #17 Jul 83 $2.95 126 p monthly
v2 #6 Aug 83 $2.95 122 p monthly - no error - it _IS_ v2 #6
v2 #7 Sep 83 $2.95 114 p monthly
v2 #8 Oct 83 [lks]
v2 #9 Nov 83 $2.95 122 p monthly
v2 #10 Dec 83 $2.95 134 p monthly
v2 #11 Jan 84 $2.95 130 p monthly
(missing issue? maybe not?)
v2 #12 Mar 84 $2.95 98 p monthly
v2 #12 May 84 $2.95 98 p monthly ("except feb,apr,jun,aug")
---> cover says MAY, inside says FEB!
v2 #13? Jul 84 [lks]
v2 #14 Sep 84 $2.95 90 p monthly ("exc. feb,apr,june,aug")
v2 #15 Oct 84 $2.95 98 p monthly ("exc. feb,apr,june,aug")
v2 #16 Nov 84 $2.95 90 p monthly ("exc. feb,apr,june,aug")
v2 #17 Dec 84 $2.95 98 p monthly - no exceptions this issue
v3 #1 Jan 85 $2.95 90 p monthly
v3 #2 Feb 85 $2.95 82 p monthly
v? #? Mar 85 $2.95 82 p monthly (volume and # aren't listed)
v3 #4 Apr 85 $2.95 82 p monthly
According to this chart, there are two v2 #12 issues- according to the
information printed in the magazines, this is correct. There is one
issue with no volume and # listed (mar 85), and this is the issue when
the editor was replaced with a new guy.
Ken Blair