Monthly Arcadia

月刊アルカディア
Monthly Arcadia

Cover of the initial issue of the Japanese magazine Monthly Arcadia from June 2000
Categories	Video games
Frequency	Bi-monthly
Publisher	Enterbrain
First issue	December 8, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-12-08)
Final issue Number	February 28, 2015 (2015-02-28) 168
Company	Enterbrain
Country	Japan
Based in	Tokyo
Language	Japanese
Website	archive.today/www.arcadiamagazine.com

Monthly Arcadia (月刊アルカディア, Gekkan arukadia) was a Japanese arcade game magazine, published by Enterbrain.

History

Monthly Arcadia launched on December 8, 1999.^[1][2][3] It was the successor to the then popular magazine Gamest by the bankrupt publisher Shinseisha. The first issue of Monthly Arcadia was subtitled "Coin op'ed videogame magazine" and later issues "Arcade video game machine magazine".^[4]

The magazine was published monthly from its start^[3] to June 2013, when its frequency was switched to bi-monthly.^[2] The last issue, cover-dated April 2015, was published in February 2015.

Table of contents

Later issues of Monthly Arcadia were typically subdivided into the following sections:

• several "Feature" sections
• Special supplement (DVD)
• Game
• Index
• Ad

References

1. Date taken from page 50 of Monthly Arcadia issue June 6, 2000.
2. "Arcadia magazine going bimonthly". Beast Note. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
3. Kevin Gifford (30 April 2008). "Analysis: The State of Game Magazines in Japan". Gamasutra. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
4. Celebrating 10 Years of Arcadia Magazine! at capcom-unity.com

External links

• Monthly Arcadia PDF magazine archive (incomplete)