Released as a special edition of the sports magazine A Semana em Ação, which replaced Placar at Editora Abril in August 1990, it had its first edition in December 1990 under the title A Semana em Ação: Especial Games (The Week in Action: Games Special).
There was also a second edition in March 1991, but the "mother magazine" did not last long, being extinct in the first half of that year.
It was created by, among others, Marcelo Duarte of ESPN Brasil and that today[when?]
Aggressive competition only accentuated this situation, especially when, in 1994, the magazines Super Game and Game Power merged under the Editora Nova Cultural label and changed the market scenario.
[1] The rise of the Internet and the rapid successive changes in the magazine's profile, which culminated in the creation of Frango (a character created by the editors, who always answered the readers' letters in a rude way and spoke ill of the magazine itself),[3] had also contributed to the loss of space of the magazine until it stopped being published in January 2002[4][5] According to the last editorial, the magazine would cease to be monthly and would be released as special editions without basis.