Gamest

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Gamest

Cover art for the first issue of Gamest magazine, May 1986
Categories	Arcade game
Frequency	1986: Bi-monthly 1987-1992: Monthly 1993-1999: Bi-weekly[1][2]
Format	Paper magazine
Publisher	Shinseisha, Ltd.
First issue	Issue #001: May 5, 1986
Final issue	Issue #274: September 30, 1999
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Gamest^[a] was a Japanese video game magazine that specialized in covering arcade games. Gamest originated from the bi-monthly fanzine VG2 Newsletter from the early 1980s. Following the bankruptcy of publisher Shinseisha, many editors would move to ASCII and create a successor magazine, Monthly Arcadia. The magazine also featured the annual Gamest Awards, which handed out awards to games based on user vote.

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