Categories Game magazine Publisher ProScript First issue 16 March 1993 | Frequency Monthly Year founded 1993 Final issue November 2001 | |
Secret Service was a Polish monthly magazine for gaming and consoles published from 1993-2001 by the publishing house ProScript. The first issue of the magazine hit the newsstands on 16 March 1993. The initiators and founders of the magazine were Martin Przasnyski and Waldemar Smith, who had previously worked for Top Secret. The magazine disbanded after 95 issues. The magazine was reactivated in 2014 but only for 2 issues.
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History
Secret Service was the first magazine in Poland to use a Cover disk (SS 19, 12/1994) or Cover CD (from the SS 36, SS 64 06/1996, 01/1999).
The last issue of the magazine (No. 95) was released in November 2001. On December 31, 2001, on the official website of the journal, there appeared a message about the suspension of the magazine. Editors explained a few days later that the posted information was a result of burglary committed on server. They stated that the only reason for the "confusion" was technical problems. Issue 96 (12/2001) was written and went to the printers, but never was printed.
Attempts to reactivate the magazine
In July 2002, a group of "Secret Service" readers established "Electronic magazine SS-NG" which transformed itself from a follower of the tradition of "The Secret Service" to a standalone "E-zine". On August 29, the 2005 editor-in-chief of "SS-NG" informed the readers of e-zine about the end of activities and publications of the magazine.
In June 24, 2014, reactivation of the magazine was announced. On July 15, raising money for the resumption of the magazine began. The necessary sum of money was gathered in just 20 hours after beginning sourcing funding. Within a month, 284 200 zł was collected for this. The first issue after reactivation (97 by continuing the numbering) was published on 30 September 2014 and its circulation was 50,000 copies. The second and last issue appeared at the beginning of December. The reason for the suspension was a dispute between the publisher and the owner of the rights to the title. In place of the liquidated issue the publisher announced the release of the monthly magazine "Pixel" and its first issue went on sale in late January 2015.