Gamer's Edge
Moby ID: 355
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Gamer's Edge was the bi-monthly disk magazine product published by Softdisk, Inc. Started by John Romero in August 1990, the small group soon included John Carmack, Adrian Carmack and Lane Roathe with donations of game & level design by Tom Hall.
Softdisk's primary business was publishing monthly disk products, but the quality of the software suffered due to the one month time limit. Romero's decision to release games at two-month intervals increased the game quality and allowed Carmack more time to plan and experiment with his game engines.
Most of this group left to form id Software on February 1, 1991 soon after Apogee Software published the group's Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons series on December 14, 1990.
id Software immediately entered into a publishing contract with Softdisk to supply the abandoned Gamer's Edge department with games for the year of 1991.
After the group left, Mike Maynard and Jim Row took over the department and spent most of 1991 learning Carmack's engine and Romero's tools and producing games so that when id stopped supplying Gamer's Edge with games (at the end of 1991) they could continue releasing games they'd stored up.
Gamer's Edge lasted until late 1992 when Mike Maynard and Jim Row left to form JAM Productions (licensing the Wolf3D tech) and create the Blake Stone series.
Credited on 9 Games from 1990 to 1993
| Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue (1993 on DOS) |
| Cyberchess (1992 on DOS) |
| The Catacomb Abyss (1992 on DOS) |
| Catacomb 3-D (1991 on DOS) |
| Xenopods (1991 on DOS) |
| Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (1991 on DOS, J2ME) |
| Catacomb (1990 on DOS, Apple II, Apple IIgs) |
| Dangerous Dave in the Deserted Pirate's Hideout! (1988 on DOS, Apple II) |
| Paragon (1988 on DOS, Commodore 64, Apple II) |
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Name
The magazine was originally called PCRcade, but this had to be changed because someone already trademarked the name. The "PCR" text visible in the second level of the 1988 Dangerous Dave DOS game was a reference to this.
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 9 games with Softdisk Publishing
- 3 games with id Software, Inc.
- 1 game with Froggman
- 1 game with Sofsource, Inc.
- 1 game with PC Arcade
- 1 game with Verbatim PC disk
- 1 game with Devoler LLC
- 1 game with Wildec LLC
- 1 game with Pro One Software
- 1 game with Flat Rock Software and Technology Transfer, Inc.
- 9 games with John Romero
- 8 games with John Carmack
- 6 games with Jerry Jones
- 5 games with Adrian Carmack
- 5 games with Tom A. Hall
- 5 games with Michael Maynard
- 5 games with James T. Row
- 4 games with Carol Ludden
- 3 games with Steven Maines
- 2 games with Greg Paul Malone II
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