FLASHBACK 40

This month, we celebrate an exciting moment in Games’s history. It was exactly 30 years ago when the magazine made an unexpected return from the dead—or bankruptcy, to be more precise. For that reason, we will be reviewing our four issues out of chronological order, beginning with the comeback issue.

30 YEARS AGO: JULY 1991

Regular readers of Flashback 40 may notice that this is the first issue from the 1990s to appear in this column. The reason? The publisher of Games—the very company that put the magazine in the hands of millions of readers—made a bad investment decision in 1990. The company went bankrupt and dragged the successful Games magazine down with the ship. If Games had been a bigger publication, this might have been newsworthy. Instead, Games vanished without warning after the March 1990 issue. But all was not