''Maverick Magazines'' was a British magazine publishing company during the 1990s.
Overview
Maverick Magazines was founded by Hugh Gollner in 1992. Based in
Oxford
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,
Oxfordshire
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, the company published a handful of
computer game
Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device to gener ...
and leisure magazines from the early to mid-1990s.
See also
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Games-X
''Games-X'' was a multi-format weekly computer and video game magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was launched in May 1991. The publisher was Europress. Editor Hugh Gollner later described it "a big mistake" in terms of finances.
See al ...
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Mega Drive Advanced Gaming
''Mega Drive Advanced Gaming'' was a magazine that focused on the Sega Mega Drive video game console, but would also cover the Mega-CD and 32X. Launched by Maverick Magazines around the same time as Future's ''MEGA'' in August 1992, with issue ...
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PC Player (British magazine)
''PC Player'' was a short lived PC videogaming magazine published in the UK by Maverick Magazines. Launched in December 1993 with John Davison as editor, ''PC Player'' devoted the majority of its pages covering simulation, adventure and str ...
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The One (magazine)
''The One'' was a video game magazine in the United Kingdom which covered 16-bit home gaming during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was first published by EMAP in October 1988 and initially covered computer games aimed at the Atari ST, Amiga ...
- publisher of this magazine in its final year
External links
The Official PC Player archive
Computer magazine publishing companies
Magazine publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Publishing companies established in 1992
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