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Home computers, tapes, reviews and columns: one of the most recognizable voices of gaming magazines of its era.
Open the DVG magazine page →
Magazines are more than paper.
A review read over and over, a walkthrough consulted only when you could take no more, an advertisement for an adventure you could hardly wait for. Magazines preserve the words and perspectives of people encountering those games for the first time.
L’Edicola del DVG is a nonprofit project offering free access to vintage gaming publications. Scans produced by the team sit alongside material recovered through collaborations: a heritage to make readable and accessible once again.
Reviews, columns, letters and advertisements help us read each page in context. The Edicola includes Italian and international magazines, computing publications, guides, specials and memorabilia. Its books and manuals area is marked as under construction.
Enter the Edicola del DVG →Names that bring back the newsstand.
Six starting points for exploring. These links lead to the magazines’ DVG pages and the material actually available there.
The Games Machine
A window into the history of computer gaming and the judgments of its contemporaries.
Open the DVG magazine page →K
Another perspective for comparing critical approaches, language and readers’ tastes.
Open the DVG magazine page →Game Power
Consoles, characters and living-room challenges in the pages that accompanied players’ discoveries.
Open the DVG magazine page →Consolemania
Rediscover the world of consoles by reading these pages alongside other magazines.
Open the DVG magazine page →C+VG
Computers and videogames on the same journey: a piece of Italian gaming journalism to revisit issue by issue.
Open the DVG magazine page →Reading an adventure through the eyes of its time.
For Monkey Island fans, the journey can begin with a question: how were graphic adventures described when they were new? Choose a magazine and the years of a game you love; browse the available issues and follow the clues in reviews, previews, walkthroughs and advertisements.
Look around the game, too: advertised computers, neighboring titles and readers’ letters reveal the world in which that adventure was discovered. This is a suggestion for research, rather than a list of Monkey Island articles already located.
When Guybrush met Star Wars
Issue 52 of The Games Machine, dated April 1993, featured “Un pirata nello spazio” on page 17: a fake preview of Monkey Island 3, with the slogan May the Monkey Be With You! and an unlikely meeting of the Caribbean and Star Wars.
It was the magazine’s April Fools’ joke, not a game announced by LucasArts. It shows how old pages preserve readers’ expectations, humor and imagination alongside games that were actually released.
Discover TGM’s joke and the original magazine page →Beyond scans, a world of connections.
The Edicola is part of DVG – il Dizionario dei VideoGiochi, a collaborative wiki. Its alphabetical index and categories cover videogames, arcades, consoles, computers, Game & Watch, handheld electronic games, emulators, pinball and gaming characters. Start with a memory and follow a word or a curiosity.
Explore the Dictionary →The preservation work continues.
Behind an archive are people searching, scanning, checking and organizing. DVG’s official channels share new releases and developments in the project, one publication at a time.
Enter the Edicola del DVG →DVG on Facebook →DVG on YouTube →Sources and images
Presentation by Monkey Island Site, based on the DVG homepage and the official Edicola page, consulted on 27 October 2026. Reading suggestions are our own. Scans, access conditions and rights remain with the sources and their respective holders; this page does not host magazine copies.
The introductory illustration was generated for this presentation: it depicts neither a real DVG location nor original magazine covers. The Edicola logo was supplied for the project presentation.