I'm not sure if I've ever bought "Gamefan" before, but there were many cool gaming mags of the era. I've seen several publishing "mistakes" like this one in other magazines (and newspapers), some of them clearly examples of "sabotage."
Regular typographical and grammatical errors pop up just about everywhere in printed publications. I guess proofreaders don't catch them all. Even big-league books like "Game Change," which is not about videogames, but a book about the American 2008 Presidential election, has a few of these, yet I see that the Armchair Arcade-affiliated books caught some flak for this.
Back in the early 1980's, I used to collect "Starlog" magazine, and in the back of every issue, they had an advertiser/classified section. I remember reading an ad that stated "We are the WORST source of ... (whatever it is they were selling)." The very next issue, Starlog printed a retraction that said something like, "Due to an unavoidable typographical error, we printed 'Worst source.' It should have said 'BEST source."
Yeah, "typographical error." Obviously, it was sabotage.
Therefore, I think that Gamefan's "sabotage" explanation is entirely plausible. A disgruntled employee probably has easy access to the publisher's system and schedule, and probably knows how to time their sabotage against the deadline for maximum damage.
I'm not sure if I've ever bought "Gamefan" before, but there were many cool gaming mags of the era. I've seen several publishing "mistakes" like this one in other magazines (and newspapers), some of them clearly examples of "sabotage."
Regular typographical and grammatical errors pop up just about everywhere in printed publications. I guess proofreaders don't catch them all. Even big-league books like "Game Change," which is not about videogames, but a book about the American 2008 Presidential election, has a few of these, yet I see that the Armchair Arcade-affiliated books caught some flak for this.
Back in the early 1980's, I used to collect "Starlog" magazine, and in the back of every issue, they had an advertiser/classified section. I remember reading an ad that stated "We are the WORST source of ... (whatever it is they were selling)." The very next issue, Starlog printed a retraction that said something like, "Due to an unavoidable typographical error, we printed 'Worst source.' It should have said 'BEST source."
Yeah, "typographical error." Obviously, it was sabotage.
Therefore, I think that Gamefan's "sabotage" explanation is entirely plausible. A disgruntled employee probably has easy access to the publisher's system and schedule, and probably knows how to time their sabotage against the deadline for maximum damage.
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