Source: https://gamehistory.org/computerentertainer/
The Video Game History Foundation has acquired the rights to Computer Entertainer, an early game magazine from the 1980s. The VGHF is making scans of the magazine available to all. Check it out.

About Computer Entertainer […]
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About Computer Entertainer

Computer Entertainer (originally titled The Video Game Update) was the newsletter for Video Take-Out, a mail-order retailer based in Los Angeles.
Computer Entertainer published one of the only contemporary reviews of Super Mario Bros. in the United States. Excerpt from Computer Entertainer, Volume 5, Number 3, June 1986, p.12.

The magazine, which ran from 1982–1990, is the only known publication in the United States that regularly covered home console video games in the mid-1980s. Most console game magazines in the US went out of business during the 1983–84 industry crash… except this one.

As a result, Computer Entertainer is one of the only sources for American reviews of classic games like The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Super Mario Bros. And because it was run by a game retailer, this magazine is one of the only reliable sources of American game release dates during this period.

The newsletter, co-edited by sisters Marylou Badeaux and Celeste Dolan, also has the unique distinction of being the earliest console video game magazine run by women.

To learn more about Computer Entertainer, listen to our interview with Marylou Badeaux on the Video Game History Hour podcast. This is Badeaux’s first ever interview about the magazine!