5-487: Share Mania is a board game published in 1988 by Perfect Games . Share Mania is a game in which a trading game using dice simulates the UK stock market. John Harrington reviewed Share Mania for Games International magazine, and gave it 3 stars out of 5, and stated that "The rules are commendably brief for what is, after all, intended to be a bright and breezy game, but there are some areas of confusion, particularly over
10-511: The United States' third-biggest computer game magazine by that date, according to Yale Brozen, and the publication's Ed Mitchell estimated that it was Vermont's largest magazine in any field. Its official website, cdmag.com, averaged one million unique visits per month by early 2000. The magazine experienced major growth during 2000: tracking firm BPA International recorded its average circulation from July-December as 374,576 copies, while
15-742: The difference between a 'round' and a 'trading period'. As ever, common sense will resolve most issues." Games International Computer Games Magazine was a monthly computer and console gaming print magazine , founded in October 1988 as the United Kingdom publication Games International . During its history, it was known variously as Strategy Plus (October 1990, Issue 1 ) and Computer Games Strategy Plus , but changed its name to Computer Games Magazine after its purchase by theGlobe.com . When it closed down in April 2007, it held
20-666: The purchase. Its circulation rose to around 130,000 monthly copies by the mid-1990s. By 1998, Computer Games Strategy Plus was the United States' third-largest computer game magazine, with a circulation of 184,299. According to editor-in-chief Steve Bauman, this number rose to 220,000 in 1999. Chips & Bits was purchased by theGlobe.com in January 2000, alongside Computer Games Strategy Plus and its publishing division, Strategy Plus, Inc. By March 2000, Computer Games ' circulation had reached 240,000 copies; roughly 300,000 units of each issue were printed per month. It remained
25-617: The record for the second-longest-running print magazine dedicated exclusively to computer games with 196 issues, behind only Computer Gaming World . In 1998 and 2000, it was the United States' third-largest magazine in this field. The magazine's original editor-in-chief, Brian Walker, sold Strategy Plus to the United States retail chain Chips & Bits in 1991. Based in Vermont and owned by Tina and Yale Brozen, Chips & Bits retitled Strategy Plus to Computer Games Strategy Plus after
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