Following the bankruptcy of publisher Shinseisha, many editors would move to ASCII and create a successor magazine, Monthly Arcadia.

Initially, it covered arcade games with an emphasis on 2D Shoot 'em ups.

In the mid-90s, the magazine covered mainly the then booming versus fighting game genre.

[citation needed] In 1999, the magazine was discontinued without a final issue due to the sudden bankruptcy of the publisher Shinseisha.

Thereafter, much of the Gamest staff transferred to the publisher ASCII (currently Enterbrain) who launched the arcade game magazine Monthly Arcadia (Japanese: 月刊アルカディア, Gekkan arukadia).