PC player

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PC player
Logo of the PC Player from issue 11/1999 to the setting.
description Computer game magazine
Area of ​​Expertise DOS / Windows games
language German
publishing company Future Publishing House
First edition December 1992
attitude June 2001
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief Manfred Duy
ISSN 0943-6693

PC Player was a German PC game magazine that was published monthly from 1992 to 2001. The founders were Heinrich Lenhardt and Boris Schneider . From December 1993 to October 1994 a British magazine of the same name appeared without reference to the German PC player .

The editorial office was initially based in Poing in the eastern Munich area , which the magazine also used humorously on several occasions. At the end of 1995 the publisher and magazine moved to Feldkirchen, just a few kilometers west of it . At the turn of the year 1997/98 the editorial team moved back to Poing. In the course of the takeover by Future-Verlag, the editorial team moved to the immediate vicinity of Munich's Ostbahnhof at the end of 1999 .

history

Logo of the PC Player from issue 6/1993 to 12/1998.

The PC Player was the attempt to address an older audience for the first time with a magazine about PC games. It was published by DMV Daten- und Medienverlag. The first edition 1/93 was sold at the “World of Commodore” fair in Frankfurt at the end of 1992 . The editorial team essentially consisted of Boris Schneider and Heinrich Lenhardt. Florian Stangl was one of the first editors . The editors-in-chief were initially the magazine's founders Heinrich Lenhardt and Boris Schneider, followed by Jörg Langer (acting), Ralf Müller and Manfred Duy . Most recently, the chief editor was Martin Schnelle .

With a circulation of 140,000 copies, PC Player was Germany's best-selling computer game magazine in March 1994.

While screenshots and official game illustrations were generally used for the cover design of the magazines , the graphic designer Celâl Kandemiroğlu ( Celâl for short ) contributed the cover images for issues 5/1996 up to and including 12/1997.

The comic Starkiller , which previously appeared monthly in Power Play , found a new home in PC Player and was continued until mid-1995. Full-page excerpts from Midam's Kid-Paddle -Comics were printed as “house comics” in the games magazine from 1997 to 1998. The cartoon tikis MS-SpielDOSe formed the end of most PC-Player editions .

A special feature of the early editions was a 3.5 " floppy disk with shareware and game demo versions, among other things. As one of the first magazines - as the spread of the CD-ROM increased - the subsidiary magazine CD Player appeared at the same time A CD-ROM as a supplement. Later, the regular PC player was also accompanied by a CD-ROM, which contained not only the game demos but also the so-called multimedia letters to the editor, short video films as AVI or MPEG files with funny contributions and parodies of the Editors, initially shot by Toni Schwaiger , then from 1997 by Henrik Fisch .

After eight and a half years, 103 issues and two changes of publisher, Future Verlag discontinued PC Player with issue 6/01 , together with the publisher's business activities. Future, the German subsidiary of Future Publishing at the time, had adapted the external appearance of the PC player to its sister magazine PC Gamer, which was market-leading in England and the USA at the time . The attitude came as a surprise to the readership; issue 7/01 was announced, but it never appeared. Most recently, PC Player was able to sell around 88,700 issues a month and had around 23,800 subscribers. However, since 1999 the circulation had decreased significantly.

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