Gary Green said: Electronic Gaming Monthly, more commonly known as EGM, was a gaming magazine founded in 1988 as ‘U.S. National Video Game Team’s Electronic Gaming Monthly’ under Sendai Publications. The lighthearted magazine was known for making April Fools jokes. Its April 1992 issue was the source of ‘the Sheng Long hoax’ in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.
EGM’s unusual review scale was based on a letter grade system in which each game receives a grade based on its perceived quality. Games were originally reviewed by a team of four until the year 2000, then a team of three, and finally knocked down to one in 2008, except for the year’s ‘biggest releases’, which were reviewed by one of a pool of editors known as ‘The Review Crew’.
