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Game Players Magazine (Magazine)

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Game Players Magazine (Magazine)	comment	Game Players was a video game magazine that had its best years in the mid-90s. Starting out as a seemingly-regular game mag (debuting in 1989 around the same time as GamePro and Electronic Gaming Monthly), there was very little to separate it from the competition as far as video game magazines went, but in the mid-90s, it shifted into a more comedic, irreverent style with Chris Slate taking over as its Editor. Under Slate, the entire magazine started getting more deliberately wacky, with the game reviewers gaining personality (and faux-personality, with Bill Donohue as an evil dungeon-master and Mike Salmon as a sarcastic ladies-man).The letters page started with several running gags, with Donohue and the fans building upon each others' jokes, creating new fictional characters and personas, speaking of a "Cleansing" (and later, "The Rinsing"), and promises of world domination and violent reprisals. It was just that kind of a mag — mostly nonsensical, and all in good fun (and vulgar taste). While GamePro was far bigger, and EGM and Diehard Game Fan got all the "legit" industry cred, Game Players was a wild and wacky book with running gags, a letters page that was 80% joke-topics (leaving the rest for actual video games), and stands out even today.As memorable as the magazine's humor was at the time, Game Players would change again after a few years. 1996 saw the magazine turning into Ultra Game Players, at which point they tried to drop most of the humor and changed a great deal of the staff. Their review system, originally based off of Graphics, Sound, Gameplay, Innovation & Replay Value, now exploded into a huge eighteen category scoring system. This did not go over well, so the humor was gradually worked back into the magazine. By 1998, the magazine had changed into yet another format under the name of Game Buyer. Four issues later, the magazine collapsed and was shut down.Its editors and writers moved on elsewhere — Chris Slate has had the most success of the group; he would eventually become editor-in-chief of the now-discontinued Nintendo Power, and is now editor-in-chief of Mac Life. Bill Donohue, who worked with Slate at PSM, still writes Jaded Gamer columns (they debuted in the Ultra era), Frank O'Connor eventually wound up at Microsoff in charge of the Halo franchise, Chris Charla is running the new Xbox One Independant Developers division, Francesca Reyes is editor-in-chief of Official Xbox Magazine, and Mike Salmon is Director of Research and Planning at 2K Games.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_10d9bc20	type	Fan Game
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_10d9bc20	comment	Fan Game: One regular section of the letters pages had readers send in their ideas for video games. They all tried to outdo each other in their zaniness.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In one issue, they previewed the final Atari Jaguar game, "Fight for Life", and ended the preview by saying "Hope it's good!" When the game was eventually reviewed, it got a 30%.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_165d6f53	type	Punishment Box
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_165d6f53	comment	Punishment Box: A Running Gag with Bill, who would stuff other staff members in it for his own sick kicks.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_17330d6c	type	Terrible Trio
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_17330d6c	comment	Terrible Trio: The Unholy Three, consisting of Moogoo the Mangler, Habeeb the Torturer, and Leng the Decapitator.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Reviewer Mike Salmon, especially with his 90s-style long hair and facial hair.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Jeff Lundrigan and Erik Lundrigan both worked for the magazine.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_24d05c2f	type	Third Eye
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_24d05c2f	comment	Third Eye: Gazuga, the ape.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Chicken Cookies ("Addictive snack cookies"), a parody of Chicken in a Biskit.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_3fc3406b	type	Haggis Is Horrible
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_3fc3406b	comment	Haggis Is Horrible: A Running Gag when it came to Frank O'Connor.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_4873cba8	type	I Was Young and Needed the Money
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_4873cba8	comment	I Was Young and Needed the Money: Their response to a female fan's complaint about Chun-Li's Shower Scene in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The 1989-1993 era, which is virtually unrecognizable compared to its more famous format from 1993-1996, both in terms of the layout and the lack of humor, not to mention the writers not being at the forefront.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_513f3d12	type	Background Music
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_513f3d12	comment	Background Music: One of the screens on the demo disc played the stock music piece "Visit to Florida" by Jack Arel and Jean-Claude Petit.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_5c36a51	type	All Women Are Prudes
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_5c36a51	comment	All Women Are Prudes: Deconstructed: One reader letter addressed the controversy of how women are depicted in video games by arguing that there are just as many hunky guys in games, and that women should open their eyes and enjoy the beefcakes instead of complaining about the scantily clad women. (the letter was from a woman, mind you)
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_64dd304c	type	Pre-emptive Declaration
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_64dd304c	comment	Pre-emptive Declaration: Played with. Chris Slate, who was a hardcore Nintendo fan, often joked that he would assign himself the job for reviewing the next Super Mario game and give it a perfect score no matter what, as a way to tease the Sega and Sony fans on the staff. However, the next Mario game that came out was Super Mario 64, which ended up being pretty much universally praised, Slate gave it a 10 out of 10, and none of the staff challenged the rating because they all admitted the game was just that good.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Gazuga B. Yeruler (Gazuga Be Your Ruler).
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: The format from roughly mid-93 to September 1996, and starting up again in mid-1997 after reader complaints that the magazine had gotten too serious.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: Coconut Monkey was behind the Hindenburg Disaster!
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Dead Horse, whose word bubble always has "......". It got really funny when the letters section added a feature where readers asked a serious question, and instead of a reply from the main writers, Dead Horse replied with "......".
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: Bobo.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: As the magazine was hitting its stride right in the middle of the controversy surrounding video game violence (which eventually prompted the forming of the ESRB), a lot of letters to the editor were about this topic.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: Ruled on their letters page, which eventually focused more on joke-y letters about "Moogoo the Mangler" and "The Cleansing" of the impure and weak, than it did towards actual video game coverage. Eventually, though, they did notice this was getting out of hand and politely informed fans that yes, most of that crap was funny, but they really needed to cover games sooner or later. Soon after, most of the more absurd writing atrophied away.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_a9c1bc0c	type	Bee Afraid
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_a9c1bc0c	comment	Bee Afraid: One of the subscriber newsletters featured a comic strip about deadly bees. But they're no ordinary bees, they're... LASERBEES.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: They were not above knocking crappy systems, and all but called-out various pieces of garbage for their lameness. Rise of the Robots was a big victim, as was the Virtual Boy console and the 32X add-on to the Sega Genesis. Nintendo got called out a great deal for their Vapor Ware that they were known for in the 1990s. Their lowest possible rating (below even "Shoot Me") was named after a Japanese PS launch game titled Cosmic Race. They had good reason. Gamer-X was also a thinly-veiled parody of Electronic Gaming Monthly's Sushi-X. They weren't above calling out their readers, either- though usually it was done tongue-in-cheek. They made fun of a reader for liking War Gods, for example.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: For some reason, Chris Slate sports one (with his face partially hidden in shadows) in his profile pic in the May 1995 issue.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The cover for the final issue of Ultra Game Players is a parody of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue's 1998 edition.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: The Stunt Race FX review is a notable example. The game scored "7" and "8" in every category, yet ended up with a 90% score.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_e3a4c481	type	Turncoat
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_e3a4c481	comment	Turncoat: When Patrick Baggetta left UGP for Next Generation, the writers jokingly called him a traitor. They even made a cutout Patrick mask in the subscriber newsletter so now you, too, can look like a traitor!
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_f6a39410	type	Fanservice Cover
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_f6a39410	comment	Fanservice Cover: The final issue of Ultra Game Players (June 1998) featured a swimsuit-clad woman on the cover, as one of the features inside was a long-requested article about the hottest video game babes. Other fanservice-y covers include any cover with Lara Croft, and the May 1998 cover, which featured Turok and a bikini babe hanging off him whose face was modeled after Pamela Anderson.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: When PaRappa the Rapper was brand new, the magazine frequently made light of the fact that this was one instance where rap wouldn't cause a drive-by shooting. Some readers wrote in complaining of this logical fallacy. Cheese was brought up frequently for jokes. Bill Donohue demanded offerings of it in the letters columns... only to be horrified when people actually delivered. A few months and several dozen very, very smelly packages later, and he was begging them to stop. Apparently this continued for quite some time.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Game Players Magazine (Magazine) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Most issues featured a question posed to the writers; the responses would begin with Chris and end with Bill. There was a Running Gag of Bill making some reference to Chris's answer in his own.
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Game Players Magazine (Magazine)	hasFeature	Broke the Rating Scale / int_e9de24ea
Game Players Magazine (Magazine)	hasFeature	Magazine Decay / int_e9de24ea
Game Players Magazine (Magazine)	hasFeature	Urban Legend of Zelda / int_e9de24ea

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