written by Ted
Within the canon of video game magazines, few occupy as much of an integral and obvious place as Famitsu. To date in all of its guises, it is the longest-running publication dedicated to the subject, now clocking in at 36 years and counting with over 1770 issues at present. During those years, it has gone from monthly, to bi-weekly, to weekly release, and continues under current editor in chief Saga Hiroko. Not too bad for a brand that first began merely as a name for a small, serialised column within a bigger magazine (Login).
Only the likes of EGM and The Games Machine come close to Famitsu’s long and storied run; the previous longest-running title holder, Computer & Video Games, lost that particular claim a few years ago after the 2015 discontinuation of its online edition. By contrast, Famitsu continues to defiantly weather the consolidation, controversy, …