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Established in October 1981 Electronic Games was the first dedicated video game magazine published in the United States and only by little in the whole world since that same year but a month later November 1981 Computer and Video Games is published, that although it isn't the first in the world, it is considered the the first British games magazine.

EGM is founded by Bill Kunkel, Arnie Katz along with his wife Joyce Worley, all of them pioneers of video game journalism, the publication was active from 1981, during the golden age of arcade video games and the second generation of consoles, up until 1985, following the North American video game industry crash. The magazine was briefly revived during the 16-bit era in the early 1990s, but eventually ended in 1995, at which point it was renamed to Fusion.

The format of the magazine consisted in letters, reviews, previews, features and many other types of content, while frequently borrowed from established traditions of magazine publishing, were molded to the subject of video games, with a frequency monthly, the paper is notable for holding the first Game of the Year Award ceremony.

After the original publication ended in 1985, Katz, Kunkel, and Worley continued as consultants to the video game industry, and worked on later publications such as Video Games & Computer Entertainment, some words such as "playfield", "shoot-em-up" and many others entered the lexicon of video game fans after being invented or popularized in the pages of Electronic Games Magazine are still used today by enthusiasts.