Gamest Magazine 1986 Posters and Art Prints

Published by Shinseisha, Gamest was a Japanese video game magazine that specialized in covering arcade games. The first issue hit newsstands in May 1986, and was originally bi-monthly, becoming a monthly publication in the late '80s. The magazine had a heavy-focus on shoot 'em up arcade games, but would also cover games from other genres. An annual feature of the magazine was their 'Gamest Awards,' which awarded to games based on reader votes. Gamest originated from the bi-monthly fanzine VG2 Newsletter from the early '80s. The magazine ran for several years, with its final issue being released in September 1999. Following the bankruptcy of publisher Shinseisha, many editors would move to ASCII and create a successor, Monthly Arcadia.