Game On! Issue 7 (November 1996)

The magazine declares its own Final Issue. "Game On! USA has been such an experiment, and in many ways the response has been good," says Jason Thompson in the Editorial. "The link between manga and games has been proven," which we never doubted, but the lack of focus is most likely the reason this is the Final Issue. I like how Mr Thompson is almost declaring a win, despite being cancelled.

"Possibly too many comics," he declares after almost HALF his editorial is done. He admits to a "seesaw between game coverage and manga." Really? Since when was a seesaw a 25/75 percent split? You could've even covered a wide range of manga, but instead we got four parts from the Cammy manga, and then five parts from another manga. He talks about how "we'd like nothing better than to release a new magazine: one with twice as much game information, with more reviews, more previews, more color art, more interviews with developers in Japan." That sounds great, but why couldn't we have gotten that from the beginning?

I'm being a bit harsh on Mr. Thopson, he's probably just an editor that they threw in front of the editorial page to welcome people to the mag. He's not the Editor-in-Chief which is normally the one that does the editorial. The way he talks makes it seem like he was just doing what he was told, the Japanese branch most likely made the decisions, so there's no fault for that. Good interviews, but 4 game reviews per issue is ridiculous for this time in gamming.