Computer and Video Games

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Describing itself on the cover as the "First Fun Computer Magazine", C&VG was launched in the UK during November 1981, making it one of the world's oldest videogame magazines, and, incidentally, Older Than the NES.

The magazine, while hardly the first to cover videogames, was the first in the UK to do so exclusively, initially focussing on the burgeoning home computer market and arcade titles and later consoles, initially in a section called Mean Machines, later spun off into its own title.

The print magazine was folded in 2004 after it changed publishers for a second time, in favour of continuing to run Games Master magazine, which was trouncing it in terms of sales. At 23 years, this made it one of the longest-running videogame magazines in the world, just beaten by the now-defunct Computer Gaming World before its demise, and only overtaken by Famitsu as of 2009.

In 2008, a small series of special editions, under the series CVG Presents... hit news stands, generally dedicated to single games, but occasionally featuring a number of guides instead.

Despite the decline of the print edition, the magazine's website ComputerAndVideoGames.com however, went strong for a little longer to the mid 2010s, and served as a more news-and-reviews-orientated counterpart to the same company's Games Radar and Edge Online, although features predominantly recycled content from the publisher's print portfolio.

Tropes used in Computer and Video Games include:

• Follow the Leader: Wasn’t the first gaming magazine. Averted in that its focus was on gaming as a whole as a gaming specific magazine, rather than for specific platforms, was novel in the UK market at the time.
• Long Runners: Was one of the longest major games publication in print for a time.
• Spin-Off: The Mean Machines section became its own publication.
• Spiritual Successor: Video Games Chronicle is seen as this by some.
• Uncancelled: The CVG Presents... line around 2008.