C-lehti
{{Short description|Finnish computer magazine (1987–1992)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = C-lehti
| image_file = File:C-lehti_January_1991_Issue_Cover.jpg
| image_caption = January 1991 cover
| frequency = Bimonthly
| publisher = Erikoislehdet Oy Tecnopress
| firstdate = 1987
| finaldate = 1992
| finalnumber = 29
| country = Finland
| language = Finnish
| issn = 0783-8921
| oclc = 477184986
}}
C-lehti (sometimes written as C=lehti) ('C-magazine') was a Finnish computer magazine targeted specifically at Commodore computers. It was in circulation between 1987 and 1992.
History and profile
C-lehti was started in 1987{{cite book|editor=Mark J. P. Wolf|title=Video Games Around the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZb5CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161|year=2015|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-52716-3|page=161|location=Cambridge, MA; London}}{{cite web|author=Tuukka Taarluoto|title=Writing Games. A Study of Finnish Video Game Journalism|url=http://www15.uta.fi/FAST/FIN/GEN/tt-games.html|work=University of Tampere
|access-date=2 June 2016|date=Fall 2007|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611185430/http://www15.uta.fi/FAST/FIN/GEN/tt-games.html}} as a spin-off of MikroBitti and was published six times per year. It was Finland's first ever computer magazine to only cover one specific family of computers. Originally, it covered the Commodore 64 (and to a lesser extent, its "bigger brother" Commodore 128) and the Amiga computers, but later it became more and more Amiga-centric, as the 64 and 128 were rapidly becoming obsolete. The magazine was part of Sanoma.{{cite book
|editor=A Wilson|display-editors=et. al.|title=Major Companies of Europe 1990/91|volume=3|isbn=978-94-009-0801-7
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tz6CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA82|year=2012|publisher=Graham & Trotham|page=82
|location=London}}
Later, as the Amiga started to lose market share to the PC computers and games consoles, C-lehti was discontinued and Pelit was established in 1992 as its successor, focused on PC and Amiga gaming.{{cite news|author1=Jaakko Suominen|author2=Markku Reunanen|author3=Sami Remes|title=Return in Play: The Emergence of Retrogaming in Finnish Computer Hobbyist and Game Magazines from the 1980s to the 2000s|work=Kinephanos|date=June 2015|url=http://www.kinephanos.ca/2015/emergence-of-retrogaming/|access-date=19 May 2016}} There were 29 magazine issues in total.
A character in C-lehti was the Guru, drawn by Harri "Wallu" Vaalio. The Guru, a bald man with a bushy beard and a shiny scalp, was the symbol for the magazine's hints and tips column. For hints & tips in computer games, he was called the Peliguru ("game guru") and had a joystick on top of his head. The Guru was never used again after the magazine was discontinued.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Commons-inline}}
- {{Internet Archive|c-lehti}}
- [http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/publication/167.en.html Table of content of several issues]
{{Commodore 8-bit computer magazines}}
{{Amiga magazines}}
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Category:1987 establishments in Finland
Category:1992 disestablishments in Finland
Category:Bi-monthly magazines published in Finland
Category:Commodore 8-bit computer magazines
Category:Computer magazines published in Finland
Category:Defunct computer magazines
Category:Defunct magazines published in Finland
Category:Finnish-language magazines