EG was the premiere video game magazine of its time. I remember strolling into the drug store with my mom and spotting the second issue of EG on the rack in 1981. It bothered me forever more that I missed that first issue. EG was published from 1981 to 1985, the year its name was changed to Computer Entertainment in order weather the big video game crash and focus more on the burgeoning computer game market. EG helped form video game journalism, and its influence lives on through the myriad of print and online coverage of the scene that exist today.
The feature story here is, of course, the release of Disney's video game extravaganza TRON, which promised to transport the audience into the inner-world of these new fangled computer boxes. The hype for TRON was pretty intense, and helped seal the fate of the movie as a curious social artifact when ticket sales were considerably less than expected. The movie itself is fun, but muddled and disjointed. You can read the history of it, and two other seminal video game films from the early 80's, in my TDE article here.
EG was also the reason I stubbornly always called them "videogames", before Google's search algorithm convinced me the combined term never caught on, and would punish me in search rankings if I used it.
Without further ado, the July, 1982 cover of EG:
Without further ado, the July, 1982 cover of EG:
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