CH Ludens Publishes Sales Database of German Games Magazines
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The Swiss research project CH Ludens has published a freely usable database with all the circulation figures of video game magazines between 1980 and 2000. Historian Aurelia Brandenburg is responsible for the data aggregation.
One of the goals of the Swiss research project Confoederatio Ludens (CH Ludens) is to open up the gaming history of the German-speaking countries, especially Switzerland - and not only for research. In addition to the games industry, this also includes reporting.
Now the research team based at the Bern University of the Arts has published a database that includes all German-language video game magazines between 1980 and 2000. The database is a trove of data about print magazine sales and successes in the late last century: It includes sales figures broken down into subscription and newsstand sales, quarterly data on circulation as well total circulation numbers, plus a detailed classification in an English-language blog post with statistics and graphs that make the data accessible to international readers. Doctoral student and historian Aurelia Brandenburg is responsible for the database.
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