was a Japanese video game magazine that specialized in covering

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. Published by

Shinseisha Co., Ltd. was a Japanese publisher founded in 1971 and who filed for bankruptcy in 1999. It originally published learning reference books, but it is more known for its 1986 arcade game magazine . The representative was Hiroshi Kato. The company ...

, it first began in May 1986 and originally published bi-monthly, later changed to be a monthly-issued magazine in the late 1980s. The magazine also featured the annual "Gamest Awards", which hands out awards to games based on user vote. The magazine had a heavy-focus on

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arcade games, but would also cover games from other genres. ''Gamest'' originated from the bi-monthly fanzine ''VG2 Newsletter'' from the early 1980s. The magazine ran for several years, with its final issue being released in September 1999. Following the bankruptcy of publisher Shinseisha, many editors would move to

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and create a successor magazine, ''

Monthly Arcadia was a Japanese arcade game magazine, published by Enterbrain. History ''Monthly Arcadia'' launched on December 8, 1999. It was the successor to the then popular magazine ''Gamest was a Japanese video game magazine that specialized in covering ...

''.

History

''Gamest'' arose from the bimonthly

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, VG2 kaihō which was also called , VG 2 rengō-shi edited by , Uemura Tomokita.消しゴムかけのおもひで
at nsknet.or.jp On the cover of the first issue of read 卜 Gamest ja, ゲームファンのためのハイスコアマガジン, Gēmesu boku ''Gamest'' Gēmufan no tame no haisukoamagajin. Initially it covered arcade games with an emphasis on 2D

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s. From issue 6 on, it appeared monthly and from issue 116 (1994) the magazine was published twice a month. In the mid-90s, the magazine covered mainly the then booming

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genre. In 1999, the magazine was discontinued without a final issue due to the sudden bankruptcy of the publisher

. Thereafter, much of the ''Gamest'' staff transferred to the publisher ''

'' (currently

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) who launched the arcade game magazine , Gekkan arukadia.

''Gamest'' was subdivided into the following sections: * , New Game Hatsutama * Report * Comic

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