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Super PLAY

Super PLAY is a Sweden video game magazine. Started in March 1993 with the name Super POWER, it was the first independent video game magazine in Sweden....
for the UK based SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) magazine.

Super PLAY (often abbreviated SP) is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
video game magazine

Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
. Started in March 1993 with the name Super POWER, it was the first independent video game magazine in Sweden. Despite its independence, it initially only covered Nintendo

Nintendo

is a global company located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
games, but the coverage was extended to all major consoles

Video game console

A video game console is an game development that produces a video signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game. The term "video game console" is used to distinguish a machine designed for consumers to buy and use solely for playing video games from a personal computer, which has many other functions, or arcade machi...
in 1995.

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Super PLAY (often abbreviated SP) is a Swedish

Sweden

Magazine

Nintendo

Video game console

Personal computer

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games. Its monthly circulation was in 2003 25,000 . The editor in chief

Editor in chief

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until November 2004 was Tobias Bjarneby

Tobias Bjarneby

Tobias Bjarneby was born in 1974 in Stockholm. He is one of Sweden's most noted video game journalists. He was the editor in chief of Super PLAY magazine from 1996 to December 2004 and has written for Aftonbladet....
, who left along with a large segment of the staff to form the new magazine Reset (which later merged with the magazine Player 1 to form LEVEL
Level

Level may refer to:*A floor of a building*A level of a mine, see shaft mining. A level with access to the surface is an adit*Level , a stage of the game...
). The current editor in chief is Joakim Bennet, who succeeded Tommy Rydling in mid-2007.

Trivia

Patrick Söderlund, now managing director
Managing director

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at Digital Illusions
Digital Illusions CE

EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment Aktiebolag is a Sweden video game developer, wholly owned by Electronic Arts, best known for the Battlefield video game series and the recent Mirror's Edge....
(DICE) wrote for the magazine in the mid-1990s.
A copy of Super PLAY can be found in the game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

is a stealth game video game directed by Hideo Kojima. Snake Eater was video game developer by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and video game publisher by Konami for the PlayStation 2, and was released on November 17, 2004 in North America; December 16, 2004 in Japan; March 4, 2005 in Europe; and on March 17, 2005 in Australia....
.

External links

Super PLAY released a new Website December the 20th 2006. The website is based on Norwegian CMS tool and . Integration made by Swedish partner