NGC Magazine

NGC Magazine
Cover of November 2001 issue
Former editors
  • Jonathan Davies: issues 1–12
  • James Ashton: issues 13–27
  • Tim Weaver: issues 28–41
  • Andrea Ball: issues 42–56
  • Mark Green: issues 57–59
  • Tim Weaver: issues 60–72
  • Jes Bickham: issues 73–84
  • Marcus Hawkins: issues 85–103
  • Tom East: issues 104–116
  • Martin Kitts: issues 117–120
CategoriesVideo games
FrequencyMonthly
First issueApril 1997; 27 years ago (1997-04) (as N64 Magazine)
Final issue
Number
June 2006
120
CompanyFuture plc
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inBath, England
Websitegamesradar.com
ISSN1475-584X

NGC Magazine (N64 Magazine until October 2001 (issue 59)) was a British magazine specialising in Nintendo video game consoles and software. It was first printed in 1997 and ran until 2006. It was the successor to Super Play, a magazine that ended in September 1996. Many of the staff and the style of that publication persisted at N64 Magazine. In November 2000, N64 Magazine merged with Nintendo World, a magazine that was published by the same company, Future plc.[1] NGC Magazine ceased publication in 2006. Its successor, NGamer,[2] was renamed Nintendo Gamer in January 2012, until publishing its final issue the following September.

NGC Magazine was at the time of its closure one of the longest-running gaming magazines in the UK. It was on many occasions first for news (including the 'denied by official source' rumors such as the existence of Resident Evil Deadly Silence and the implication of the Wii controller and the delay of Zelda: Twilight Princess – both later being proved true in parts), due in part to having no official connection to Nintendo and therefore no restrictions on what it could report (save legal ones).

  1. ^ "The Future's Square". N64 Magazine (47): 3. November 2000.
  2. ^ "NGamer". Future Publishing Limited. 2008. Archived from the original on 11 November 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2009.