[3] VG&CE was started at LFP by Lee H. Pappas (publisher), with Andy Eddy as executive editor (Eddy was a freelance contributor to the first issue of the magazine, which had the cover date of December 1988, just before relocating to California in September 1988 to become its editor before the first issue hit the streets.

During Eddy's tenure at the magazine, there was no one listed as editor-in-chief, simply due to odd staff-titling decisions.)

Knights of Xentar writer David Moskowitz was also an associate editor covering news and computer games during the Eddy/Davila/Bieniek tenure.

In an effort to compete with magazines popular at the time,[citation needed] such as GamePro, the magazine was made more child-friendly with vibrant colors and issues often featured a videogame cheat printed on the cover, labelled as a "free code" (this ended in late 1994).

The magazine ended publication in late 1996, when Ziff-Davis bought VideoGames from LFP and folded the brand.