Game Players was a video game magazine that had its best years in the mid-1990s. Starting out as a seemingly-regular game mag (that was actually the very first one not devoted to only one system and produced in-house by a video game company). There was very little to separate it from what came later as far as video game magazines went, but in the mid-90s, it shifted into a more comedic, irreverent style with Chris Slate taking over as it's Editor. Under Slate, the entire magazine started getting more deliberately whacky, with the game reviewers gaining personality (and faux-personality, with Bill Donohue as an evil dungeon-master and Mike Salmon as a sarcastic ladies-man).