PC joker

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PC joker

description Computer game magazine
Area of ​​Expertise DOS / Windows games
language German
publishing company Joker Publishing House
First edition November 1991
attitude March 2004
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief Richard Lowenstein
editor Michael Labiner
ZDB 1278969-0

The PC Joker was the first computer games - magazine for IBM PC compatible computers , like the Amiga Joker in publishing Joker appeared. The publishing house was based in Haar (near Munich) .

editorial staff

The editors of PC Joker were Michael Labiner , who now works as a psychological consultant and coach, and his then wife Brigitta Labiner. Carsten Borgmeier and Richard Löwenstein were among the best-known editors of the magazine. Other well-known editors of the PC Joker were among others Markus Ziegler, Michael Trier, Dieter Marchsreiter, Steffen Schamberger, Reinhard Fischer, Paul Kautz, Michael Schnelle and his brother Martin Schnelle.

history

The first issue of PC Joker was published as November-December issue 6/91. In 1992 the magazine was published every two months, from 1993 always monthly. In 1995, two issues of the magazine were confiscated and destroyed by the Munich public prosecutor's office for advertising indexed games, resulting in a five-figure loss. From 12/95 the magazine was also available with a cover CD, initially under the title PC Joker Total . The version without the magazine CD was sold under the name PC Joker pur . The PC Joker was one of the first PC games magazines Full Games settled their expenses regularly. At the beginning of 1997 the magazine got an adapted relaunch with the now officially unified title PC Joker Heft & Spiel. The 10th anniversary of the magazine was celebrated with the 11/1999 anniversary issue. The 1/2000 issue had the additional title "Millennium Edition" . From issue 7/2000 the magazine was given the additional subtitle “Germany's most experienced games mag” . Shortly thereafter, a costly legal dispute arose with a competing magazine. Due to a steady decline in sales, the decision was made again with issue 11/2000 to radically modernize the logo and design. At the end of 2000 the PC Joker was discontinued with issue 1/2001. The edition 2/2001 that had already been created was no longer published.

PC Joker hits

In 1994, in addition to the monthly magazine, a paperback was published once under the title PC Joker Hits , which presents the platform's best 50 games in book form. Existing material from the Joker Verlag was primarily used and processed. The editor of the book was Carsten Borgmeier, which was published by SYBEX-Verlag and sold for 39.90 DM. In addition to the first edition of the magazine, the book is now a sought-after collector's item.

Unofficial edition

Although issue 2/2001 was never completed and printed, a 19-page PDF document with material that had already been completed but never published was circulated on the Internet for a short time in May 2008 under the title “The Really Last PC Joker”. This included the cover picture, game tests ( Counter-Strike 1.0 , Quake 3 Team Arena , Adlertag: The Battle of Britain , Chicken Run ), hardware tests ( TFT monitors, joypads, etc.) and the legendary ghost comic entitled Ghost Activities , of which only two copies exist in print form. Some of the articles also have handwritten corrections by the respective editors, which should have been implemented before printing.

Multimedia joker

From the July / August 1994 edition, the PC Joker contained the Multimedia Joker, a supplement that took care of the console market . Eight editions of the Multimedia Joker were integrated in the PC Joker. In April 1995, issue 5/6 was the first independent issue. After seven editions, however, the independent edition was discontinued. Two issues of the magazine were due advertise indexed Games confiscated .

revival

After the demise of the PC Joker from Joker-Verlag, there was a revival in spring 2003 under the name Der neue PC Joker . This magazine came from Media-Verlag , which had secured the rights to the name PC Joker . The new PC Joker appeared for the first time with issue 4/2003, but the magazine was already discontinued with issue 3/2004. As a result, the PC Joker was included in the semi-professional computer magazine (also from Media-Verlag) until March 2006 .

The rights are still held by Media-Verlag, but currently neither an insert booklet nor an independent magazine appears under this title. However, the media publishing house uses the “PC Joker” brand on the game pages in its magazine Computer - Das Magazin für Praxis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of Michael Labiner as a naturopath for psychotherapy
  2. ↑ Kirsten Althof: PRESS: Blackened Breasts - Industry in turmoil: Computer magazines are in trouble because of advertising for porn software in: Focus from August 7, 1995
  3. ↑ The Really Last PC Joker - Unofficial Edition 2/2001 (Download no longer available)
  4. ^ Fritz Holzmann: Deutschsprachige Zeitschriften, Volume 42, 1998, p. 1274
  5. ↑ Blackened breasts. Focus , August 7, 1995, accessed January 1, 2016 .
  6. ↑ http://www.evil.to/magaziniac_news.html