Game On

Cover of edition 02/1992

"Game On" was a German disk magazine for game freaks on a 5,25"-disk for the Commodore 64, which was published by the CP Verlag (Computer Publications GmbH). The first edition of the "Game On" was released in mid-October of 1988 and formed from the "Magic Disk 64", which was published by the same publishing company.

The magazine

The magazine disk was available at newspaper stands, sealed inside a "Game On" envelope. The manuals for the games could be read on the screen, but it was also possible to print them. Furthermore there were amongst others the columns "Hallo" (editorial), Top Ten, Games Guide, Intern, Crackernews and Vorschau (preview). A little bit later the columns Forum with letters to the editor, Low Budget, Help! (games help) or the "Game On" club were added.

Next to the games, which were explained in the menu system accompanied by music, also letters to the editor, news from the games scene and game tests could be read through the menu system.

Starting with issue 12/1993, "Game On" was combined with "Magic Disk 64" and sold in bundle with the computer games magazine "Play Time", i.e. there were two disk magazines and one computer games magazine for different systems for one price. "Game On" was discontinued after issue 07/1995.

Miscellaneous

On issues 09/89, 10/89, and 04/90 until 06/90, the menu and some games are protected using the Timex-System, which cannot be reproduced on D64 images. The demos and scene magazines are naturally not protected.

The disk should not be validated; otherwise, other programs may unwittingly destroy the menu when writing to disk themselves. This limitation is because of the way most menu files are hidden (i.e. not in the directory)

Disk Contents

1988

11/88 (playful menu with <F>-key controls)

• Games: Breakout-Construction-Kit, Psyxx, Krypton, Xarion, Babylon Four

12/88

• Games: Crack It, Hover, Scarab, Death or Glory - It's Suicidal
• Demo: Long Distance/GP

1989

01/89

• Games: Zuul, Speed Hero
• Demos: Demo1, Demo2

02/89

• Games: Heisse Luft, Hawk, Wahn, Kings of Comedy

03/89

• Games: Ben, Out, Little Hat's Maze
• Demo: Magic Demo/GP+FE

04/89

• Games: Wizard Fight, Dan Cooper, XenoX
• Demo: The Deadline/FIG, Charlatan/Beyond, Xcellence/WS&WWE, 711- Senseless

05/89

• Games: Gave-Günnie, Tank Action
• Magazine: Sex'n'Crime 001
• Demos: Demo for you, T.S.M. Visual-L&M, Electric Cafe

06/89

• Games: Natrium-Chlorid, Robo Runner
• Magazine: Sex'n'Crime 002
• Demos: Ratts Movie1, Ratts Movie2, Have Fun

07/89

• Games: Break Ball, Zoom Ball, Hopping Hoodlum
• Magazine: Sex'n'Crime 003
• Demos: Music-Demo 003, Music-Demo 004

08/89

• Games: Motorhead, Jeremias Ratterflatter, Fips
• Magazine: Sex'n'Crime 004
• Demo: Mount Wizax

09/89 (from now on with graphical menu and background music, controls with joystick; menu protected)

• Games: Gravrace, Xis, Dawn Beyond UB11 (all three protected)
• Magazine: Sex'n'Crime 005
• Demo: Double Density
• Letter to the editor: Paul Plotter answers to the letters of readers

10/89 (menu protected)

• Games: Timerunner, Blakhole (both protected), Fadenkreuz, Schiebereien

11/89

• Games: Metal Force, Jumping Cubes, Zagon, Blast'em
• Magazine: Magic News...Sep

12/89

• Games: Rooter, Final Tennis, Colora, Crazy Runner
• Magazine: Magic News...Oct

1990

01/90

• Games: Acia, Jungle Patrol, Wastelands
• Game Demo: Myth-Demo
• Magazine: Magic News...Nov

02/90

• Games: Megaparatrooper, Krypton, B.A.T.
• Magazine: Magic News...Dec

03/90

• Games: Anti, Dinorace, Elec-Tron
• Magazine: Magic News...Jan
• Demo: Magic Caves

04/90 (menu protected)

• Games: Baby Jack (protected), Hypersnake, Mega Max, Flag Fight
• Magazine: Scene Press..Mar

05/90 (menu protected)

• Games: Suprally (protected), Aliens, Space Ace
• Magazine: Scene Press..Apr

06/90

• Games: Ryshka, Backgammon (both protected), Orbit
• Magazine: Scene Press..Apr

07/90

• Games: Dynamoid, Elite Squad, Radax, Orbit Levelmaker
• Magazine: Scene Press..May

08/90

• Games: Compunet, Wobbler, Warball
• Magazine: Mamba 008

09/90

• Games: Intruder, Declem, Chicago'20, Pull
• Magazine: Mamba 009

10/90

• Games: Django, Celluloid, Paranom, Tunnels of Terror
• Magazine: Mamba 010
• Demo: Demo by Negativ

11/90

• Games: Digital Tangram, Vyrus, Zozoom, Transporter, Pathal
• Magazine: Mamba 011

12/90

• Games: Curse of the Keys, Connect 4, Skylark
• Magazine: Mamba 012

1991

01/91

• Games: Intruder, Scumm, Sensor, Holf
• Magazine: Mamba 013

02/91

• Games: Cyrus, Duotris, Project S.O.L.
• Magazine: Mamba 014
• Demo: Fatman Demo

03/91

• Games: Starforce, Tanks, Deri Colours, Solitaire
• Magazine: Mamba 015

04/91

• Games: Firepit, Pure Seed, Take'em
• Game Demo: Turrican II-Demo
• Magazine: Mamba 016
• Demos: Trail Mix, Pro! - Pragmatix

Issue 05/1991

05/91

• Games: Cesar, Movie Business, Paranoimia
• Magazine: Mamba 017
• Demo: Digital Excess

06/91

• Games: Montrix, Chubby Chester, T.U.S.G.
• Magazine: Mamba 018
• Demo: Charlatan/Beyond, Freakout

Issue 07/1991

07/91

• Games: Tube Madness, Clystron, Einstein
• Magazine: Mamba 019
• Demo: Xess 2 - Rewind

08/91

• Games: Ikarus, Apoxoly, Madness
• Magazine: Mamba 020
• Demo: T.S.M. Visula-L&M

Issue 09/1991

09/91

• Games: Coalminer, Beatball, Sentence
• Game Demo: Lethal Zone Demo
• Magazine: Mamba 020

10/91

• Games: Mind-Breaker, I Want More Diamonds, Tiffany
• Game Demo: Mechanicus Demo
• Magazine: Mamba 021

Issue 11/1991

11/91

• Games: Mechanicus, Sysiphus, Craft
• Game Demo: Another World Preview
• Magazine: Mamba 021
• Miscellaneous: Scriber-Azure

12/91

• Games: Plural, Snake Mania, The Jumping Jack
• Magazine: Mamba 023
• Demo: Delta-Demo

1992

01/92

• Games: Oracle, Clone, Sysiphus in Ägypten
• Magazine: Propaganda 3

Issue 02/1992

02/92

• Games: Nibbly '92, Kopido, Black Panther
• Magazine: Propaganda 4
• Demos: Faar Out, Plot a Lot, Mummy Likes Me

03/92

• Games: Forester, Triplex, Angel, Real Genius
• Magazine: Propaganda 4

Issue 04+05/1992

04+05/92

• Games: Hi Ska Do, Pot Fun, Relaxed Motions, Zellion the Game, Mastermind
• Magazine: Propaganda 5
• Demos: Black Mail

06/92

• Games: No Deeper Meaning, The Pearl of Dawn, Twin-Down
• Demos: Mstocephaloid/XS, Destination'91

07+08/92

• Games: Timepuzzle, Stoppt den Calippo Fresser

09/92

• Games: Pharao's Revenge, Multris, 12 O'Clock, Deliverance
• Demo: FLT2/Rutig Banan

10/92

• Games: Xenon Ranger, System - 4, Cross It, Triget
• Demo: Obsession 01/SLS

11/92

• Games: Munch - The Game, Solitax, Space Towers, Enforcer
• Demo: Thanatic

12/92

• Games: Plexonoid, Hyper Aggressive, Patternia, Dead Zone, Snowman
• Demo: Antic/Transcom

1993

01/93

• Games: Methodos, Dr. Foster, 5-A-Row, Morphicle
• Demos: Sprite-Mania/GP, Mix Pickles, Smooth Criminal

02/93

• Games: Hektic 2, Stone Edge, Final Encounter, Dark Side
• Demo: Paradise/DCT

03/93

• Games: Color-Buster, Frogger '93, Bounce, Aftermath
• Game Demo: Locomotion Demo
• Demos: Warrior/ZOM/SCS, Countach/ANS, Ivan/ Smash d., Out of Coma/OXY, Wave/VISION

04+05/93

• Games: Minefields, SQIJ, Joshua, Rowdy
• Demos: Nothin' Special, Raster Blaster

06/93

• Games: Move On, Mazer, Moribund, Orpheus
• Demo: Out of Coma II/OXY

07+08/93

• Games: Detonators, Psychic Kaos, Reversi GTI
• Demo: Tekkno Fun

09/93

• Games: Holiday Games, Hotfood 2, Ograton

10/93

• Games: Parsec, Shards, Kniffel +6
• Demo: Forget It

11/93

• Games: Disc-O-Very, Quadrant, Pair of Memory
• Demos: World of Chaos

12/93

• Games: Bounce It, The Darksword, Nova
• Demo: Triiod-Demo/HIS

1994

01/94

• Games: Lions of the Universe, Perplex II, Duelstrike
• Demos: Vintermums/TRIAD, Smash-Dance/BAD

02/94

• Games: Reactor, Declem
• Demos: On Fire/CD, Junkbox 1/TOM

03/94

• Games: Fred's Back III, Cashman
• Demos: Holy Shit/TOM, Maniac X-Mas/TOM, Christmasdemo'93, Christmas Aches, X-Mas Salute/OPP

Issue 03/1994 in "C64 Three in One Kombi"*

04/94

• Games: Quiz-Show, Experience, Move
• Demos: Extinction/TMMB

Issue 04/1994 in "C64 Three in One Kombi"*

05/94

• Games: Arc Doors, Speranza
• Demo: Rainbow Warrior

06/94

• Games: Supercode, Bobix
• Demo: Made in Heaven

07/94

• Games: Push It, Snak Attack
• Demos: Christmas Aches, Maniac X-Mas/TOM, Christmasdemo'93

08/94

• Games: Cosmox, Addgar
• Demo: Just for Fun

09/94

• Games: Titbit, Technoplyn
• Game Demo: Heavenbound/D

10/94

• Games: Firefox, Queens, Hanseat
• Demo: Mad Code

Issue 11/1994 in "C64 Three in One Kombi"

11/94

• Games: Kampf der Genies, Brain Spasm
• Demos: Youthquake/CTX, Halfway

12/94

• Games: Fernseh-Sender, Bronx Medal, Baby Blues
• Demo: Mor-Phun/V-L

1995

01/95

• Games: Reflexis, Complex
• Demo: Bullshit/Blowout

02/95

• Games: Master Mind, Lethal Bombs, Pozitronic
• Demo: Thrilling Step

03/95

• Games: Transworld, Spook - The Game, Castor
• Demo: That's../SCOOP

04/95

• Games: Payday, Tectron, Scenario
• Demo: The Cult

05/95

• Games: Roll Over, Cyberball
• Demo: Project A/ZEUT

06/95

• Games: Coloured, Microprose Soccer, Blubria
• Demo: Party4-Scr./TRSI

Last issue 07/1995 of the "C64 Three in One Kombi"

07/95

• Games: Ikkiuchi, Black It, Memologie, The House
• Demo: Fairy-Tale/FLP

'*Discrepancies between the numbers of the issues of the Play Time or the "C64 Three in One Kombi" respectively and the issue number of the Magic Disk 64 and the Game On by different summer breaks of the editorial staff can occur!!

Links

• Video of the Game On 07/95 on Youtube
• Game On Covers at kultboy.com