09-13-2013, 03:38 PM
This likely is an incomplete list, but here's the names of some PBM magazine from the past, all of which are now no longer in active publication.
Nuts & Bolts
Paper Mayhem
PBM Universal
Gaming Universal
Flagship
American Flagship
Campaigner's Newsletter
American Gamer
The PBM Report
Simulacrum
PBM Worm
Issue # 1 of Flagship contains words from that magazine's first editor, Nicky Palmer, about why he was launching Flagship magazine. If anyone has a copy of issue # 1 of Paper Mayhem, or the first issue of any other PBM magazine, I would appreciate it if you would take time out in order to share what the stated reasons were for publishing those first issues.
For Flagship, here is the WHY behind why Nicky Palmer launched that PBM magazine all those many years ago (Winter of 1983, to be exact).
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WHY? FLAGSHIP has been launched because the Play-By-Mail hobby needs a reliable and entertaining guide through the multiplying forests of PBM games on the market. If any one of us tries to play them all we will end up spending a fortune, sometimes for an ill-conceived game which extracts money from its players for a few turns before expiring with a sigh, sometimes for more popular games which don't happen to suit our individual tastes. On the other hand, if we only play one or two games we may be missing something great! FLAGSHIP will sort out the sheep from the goats, and keep you in touch with the latest developments. We also want to bring together players from the professional and amateur wings of PBM, who today seem to have very little contact with each other.
SOURCE: Flagship - Issue # 1 - Report from the Bridge
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Nuts & Bolts
Paper Mayhem
PBM Universal
Gaming Universal
Flagship
American Flagship
Campaigner's Newsletter
American Gamer
The PBM Report
Simulacrum
PBM Worm
Issue # 1 of Flagship contains words from that magazine's first editor, Nicky Palmer, about why he was launching Flagship magazine. If anyone has a copy of issue # 1 of Paper Mayhem, or the first issue of any other PBM magazine, I would appreciate it if you would take time out in order to share what the stated reasons were for publishing those first issues.
For Flagship, here is the WHY behind why Nicky Palmer launched that PBM magazine all those many years ago (Winter of 1983, to be exact).
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WHY? FLAGSHIP has been launched because the Play-By-Mail hobby needs a reliable and entertaining guide through the multiplying forests of PBM games on the market. If any one of us tries to play them all we will end up spending a fortune, sometimes for an ill-conceived game which extracts money from its players for a few turns before expiring with a sigh, sometimes for more popular games which don't happen to suit our individual tastes. On the other hand, if we only play one or two games we may be missing something great! FLAGSHIP will sort out the sheep from the goats, and keep you in touch with the latest developments. We also want to bring together players from the professional and amateur wings of PBM, who today seem to have very little contact with each other.
SOURCE: Flagship - Issue # 1 - Report from the Bridge
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