Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 001 (May-June 1989)

Muchas gracias, siempre lo quise tener, un numero legendario

This is amazing! I never caught the 1st issue when it came out. Thanks!

Thank you for that.

Thank you

Hi there! I'm from Mexico and I used to buy this excellent magazine, thank you so much for making this possible. Amazing job!

Sorry but I don't speak English very well.

Thank you so much for posting this! I had this issue as a kid but since then I'm afraid I've misplaced it.

Started reading EGM when I was 16 with issue 83 and got addicted to buying it every month. Nice!! I finally get to check out these older issues.

This takes me back, I remember rushing to my local magazine store at the beginning of the month and pick this magazine up. 

Thanks. Great cover for a first issue.

I love all of these retro magazines. I wasn't alive in the 80s so this is all new to me.

the one that started it all!

I used to buy this wonderful magazine in early 90's but never caught the first issues. Thanks!

Remembering reading these as a kid because I couldn't afford the games. Those were the times.

Great issue - remember these early days of EGM fondly.

I would sincerely like to Thank everyone involved in bringing EGM to this format. As a person born in the early 70's , this magazine in particular was the one I would wait by the mailbox each  month whenever I suspected it to be delivered. All through highschool and until about 2007, I was a faithful subscriber. Once again Thank You guys and gals.... 

I can remember going between 3 different stores every month trying to find the latest issues of this and GamePro. I miss the days of physical copies of gamer mags.

What a blast from the past. One of my favourite magazines of all time and I can finally read them again after I lost my collection.

Oh snap, that was the first issue? I remember buying that!

I started reading these a while after discovering this site back in the day but haven't done so in quite some time. I'll have to continue reading these. Again, thank you for posting these! This site is one of the best when it comes to video game preservation!

I can't wait to start my journey though the years of EGM. Thank you so much! I have found my new favorite website.

I downloaded it months ago, and it's fantastic. It's truly a time machine. I love this site.

I loved this magazine growing up. Looking forward to reading it again!

Love this, many thanks.

Glad this place is still up.

This isn't the first issue of EGM, it's the 1989 Preview Guide. If you read the magazine, there are indications that an issue was printed before this — from Page 6's masthead saying "1989 Preview Guide" at the top instead of "Number 1" (as the following issue says "Number 2" in that spot) to a letter to the editor on Page 18 talking about how Electronic Gaming Monthly is the hottest magazine around (how would they know if it hadn't been printed until now?) to the last non-cover page declaring that the "third issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly" would hit newsstands on April 22, 1989 (that would be labeled Issue 2 but technically it would be the third issue of EGM if they're counting this Preview Guide as their second issue).