Before EGM, GamePro, and a legion of other video game magazines, Computer Entertainer was one of the first publications to cover the industry in the early ’80s. Now, the Video Game History Foundation has announced that it has acquired the rights to post the entirety of Computer Entertainer’s eight-year run online as part of its free digital archive.
Computer Entertainer was owned and founded by sisters Marylou Badeaux and Celeste Dolan in 1982, and it was the only video-game-focused magazine to survive the infamous crash of 1983. As a result, Computer Entertainer was one of the few publications that had stories about the aftermath of the crash, as well as the period before and immediately after the North American launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985.
The magazine also had some of the earliest reviews for the NES titles, including Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, and Super Mario Bros.