Long before video games became a routine subject for newspapers, television networks, and websites, American players often had to search for information wherever they could find it. A new cartridge might appear in a department store before a player had ever seen a review of it. Release dates shifted quietly. Games announced at trade shows sometimes vanished before reaching stores. Strategies traveled through school cafeterias, arcades, telephone calls, handwritten notes, and whatever magazines happened to reach a local newsstand.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one unusually important source was hiding inside the daily newspaper.
The Milwaukee Journal had been part of the city’s life since the nineteenth century. The paper began as the Daily Journal in 1882, became the Milwaukee Daily Journal the following year, and adopted the Milwaukee Journal name in 1890. It continued under that title until 1995, when it merged with the Milwaukee Sentinel to form the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The Library of Congress records the Journal as a daily newspaper stretching from 1890 through March 31, 1995, while the Milwaukee Public Library preserves microfilm extending back through its earlier names.
For video game historians, however, the most interesting part of that long publishing history falls within a comparatively short period during the 1980s.
The Journal covered home video games while Atari, Mattel, Magnavox, Coleco, Sega, and Nintendo fought for American living rooms. It reported during the enormous expansion of the early cartridge market, remained interested while that market collapsed, and documented Nintendo’s return before the NES had established itself as the dominant American console. Most importantly, the newspaper became home to Edward J. Semrad, whose “Video Adventures” work created an unusual bridge between the first generation of American video game journalism and the magazine culture that followed.
The surviving material is extensive enough that The Milwaukee Journal should be remembered not simply as a newspaper that occasionally wrote about games, but as one of the more valuable local records of American video game culture during the industry’s formative years.
The Green Sheet
Much of this history appeared in one of the Journal’s most distinctive features, the Green Sheet.
The Green Sheet had existed decades before anyone in Milwaukee had heard of Atari or Nintendo. Research preserved by Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum traces its origins to about 1913. By the late 1920s, it had evolved into an entertainment-oriented section filled with comics, puzzles, serials, human-interest stories, crime, popular culture, and commentary.
For generations of Milwaukee readers, its pale green pages were immediately recognizable. That history made the section a natural home for video games when electronic entertainment began moving from arcades into family rooms. Games could still seem strange to traditional news departments, but in a section already concerned with popular entertainment, hobbies, and curiosities, they belonged.
What eventually appeared there was remarkable. The Green Sheet did not merely tell parents that video games existed. It published buying advice, reviews, strategies, industry information, release news, scores, player achievements, and reports about hardware that had not yet become widely available.
In other words, parts of the Green Sheet began doing work that would eventually become standard for dedicated gaming publications.
Christmas 1981 and the Home Video Game Boom
Some of the Journal’s earliest surviving game coverage captures the American market near the height of its first great expansion.
On November 28, 1981, the Green Sheet carried “Which Videogame Is Right for Your Family?” by Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz, two of the most important figures in the emerging specialist gaming press. Distributed through the New York Times News Service, the article considered the major programmable systems available to families heading into Christmas, including the Atari Video Computer System, Intellivision, Odyssey², Astrocade, and Channel F.
Its appearance is significant because it shows just how quickly specialist knowledge was crossing into mainstream newspapers. Kunkel and Katz were associated with Electronic Games, one of the foundational American video game magazines. Milwaukee newspaper readers were therefore receiving material produced by writers helping invent video game journalism as a field.
Only days later, on December 2, the Journal published “Video Bounty Expected,” a shorter survey of the Christmas market. It discussed systems such as Atari, Intellivision, and Odyssey², along with the prices consumers could expect to pay for machines and cartridges. K.C. Munchkin was identified among the more popular Odyssey² offerings.
By 1982, the coverage had become still more revealing.
An October 14 piece, “A Look at Upcoming Video Games,” previewed titles for competing systems, including Pick Axe Pete, Tron Deadly Discs, Megamania, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Gangster Alley, and Lost Luggage. On November 22, consumer affairs reporter Karen Robinson approached the subject from another angle in “Deciding What to Buy Is Part of the Video Game.” She contacted eight Milwaukee-area retailers to learn what people were actually buying and how stores advised customers trying to choose among competing machines.
That local reporting is especially valuable today. Sales totals can tell historians which console eventually won, but Robinson’s article captures the marketplace while the outcome was still uncertain. Retailers compared graphics, game difficulty, and availability. The article even recorded that Odyssey² was becoming difficult to find among the stores Robinson surveyed.
Alongside it appeared “Just What Is the Harm in Video Games?” examining contemporary fears surrounding excessive play and possible video game addiction. The questions sound familiar because they never completely disappeared, but seeing them asked in 1982 demonstrates how quickly games had moved from technological novelty to cultural concern.
Recording a Market Just Before It Broke
One of the most historically important Milwaukee Journal articles arrived on December 26, 1982.
Its title was almost prophetic: “Stream of Video Games Is Endless.”
The article appeared when American retailers were confronting an extraordinary flood of cartridges. Dozens of companies wanted a piece of the market, particularly for the Atari 2600, and store shelves were filling faster than consumers could absorb the games. Histories of the North American video game crash continue to cite the Journal article as contemporary evidence of that saturation.
The value of such a source lies in its timing.
Later accounts could describe the crash with the advantage of hindsight. Writers knew Atari would stumble, knew Mattel would leave the console business, knew retailers would slash cartridge prices, and knew Nintendo would eventually rebuild the American market.
The Journal did not know any of that in December 1982.
Its reporting came from inside the moment, when the seemingly endless stream of software could still be interpreted as evidence of tremendous demand rather than a warning that too many companies were chasing too few customers.
By November 1983, the paper was still devoting space to video games in an “Electronics for Christmas” section even as the home console business was contracting. The market had changed dramatically, but video games had not disappeared from Milwaukee’s newspaper pages.
That persistence would become important.
Edward J. Semrad and Video Adventures
The central figure in the Milwaukee Journal’s place in video game history is Edward J. Semrad.
Semrad eventually became best known nationally through Electronic Gaming Monthly, where he served as an editor and later editor-in-chief. Before that career, however, he was writing about games in Milwaukee.
His newspaper work reached back into the early 1980s and covered systems including the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, and Nintendo Entertainment System. Hidden Palace, which later helped preserve prototypes from Semrad’s personal collection, describes him as one of the early major names in video game journalism and specifically notes his unusually extensive reporting on the NES before its American release.
The column eventually became closely associated with the name “Video Adventures.”
For Milwaukee players, it provided something difficult to obtain in an age before searchable release calendars and instant online news. A Saturday newspaper could tell them about new cartridges, upcoming hardware, strategies, high scores, and games that might be worth saving money to buy.
Semrad was not simply summarizing advertisements. His work increasingly reflected direct contact with games, companies, trade shows, and highly skilled local players.
Decades later, that attention to detail would make his newspaper columns valuable all over again.
Nintendo Before America Knew What Nintendo Would Become
Perhaps the finest example came on October 5, 1985.
Semrad published “New Nintendo System Way Ahead of the Field,” previewing the Nintendo Entertainment System before its 1985 New York test-market introduction had established whether Nintendo’s unusual machine would succeed.
Today it is easy to view the NES through everything that came afterward. Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man, and countless other games transformed Nintendo into an American entertainment giant. In October 1985, none of that future was guaranteed.
Semrad’s article is valuable precisely because it comes from before the victory.
He identified the software Nintendo planned to offer with the new machine and listed proposed early releases such as 10-Yard Fight, Baseball, Clu Clu Land, Excitebike, Golf, Hogan’s Alley, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Pinball, Soccer, Stack-Up, Tennis, Wild Gunman, Wrecking Crew, and Super Mario Bros.
That list has become important to modern historians trying to reconstruct the poorly documented American introduction of both the NES and Super Mario Bros. Frank Cifaldi of the Video Game History Foundation has specifically used Semrad’s report while investigating the disputed chronology of Nintendo’s launch.
A local Milwaukee newspaper column had become evidence in one of the more stubborn dating questions in video game history.
Semrad Was Not a Nintendo Cheerleader
Semrad’s historical value also comes from the fact that he could change his mind.
His positive 1985 preview did not turn him into an unquestioning Nintendo advocate. On August 9, 1986, he published “Nintendo Fails to Get Its Action Together,” an unusually severe evaluation of the NES that compared Nintendo’s machine with competitors such as Sega’s Master System and Atari’s 7800. The article survives as part of the documentary record and has even been cited in scholarly work on Nintendo hardware.
That contrast is revealing.
Histories written after Nintendo’s victory can make the NES appear destined for dominance, as though any knowledgeable observer should immediately have recognized it as the future of American console gaming. Semrad’s contemporary reaction demonstrates otherwise.
The NES was being judged against products that were still alive, companies that still had supporters, and expectations shaped by the pre-crash generation. Nintendo had to persuade people who remembered Atari, Coleco, Intellivision, and the collapse that had followed them.
Even experienced game writers could be skeptical.
That uncertainty is exactly what makes contemporary journalism useful. It restores possibilities that history later erased.
Zelda, Castlevania, Metal Gear, and a Newspaper Review Page
By 1987 and 1988, “Video Adventures” had developed into a remarkable record of the early Nintendo and Sega years.
On June 27, 1987, Semrad reviewed Konami’s Castlevania under the headline “Konami’s ‘Castlevania’ a Superb Challenge.”
On August 1, he turned to Nintendo’s new adventure game with “NES’ Superb ‘Zelda’ Rates a Perfect 10.” A week later, “Trouble with ‘Zelda’? These Tips May Help” offered assistance to players trying to unravel its secrets.
Other columns examined Ikari Warriors, Section Z, 3-D WorldRunner, Athena, Deadly Towers, racing games, sports games, and holiday releases.
The pattern continued through 1988. Semrad reviewed Wizards & Warriors, Ikari Warriors II, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Metal Gear, Life Force, Super Mario Bros. 2, Sega’s version of Double Dragon, 1943, Nintendo’s Power Pad, and Sega’s Phantasy Star. His January 7, 1989 column called R-Type Sega’s best yet.
Reading those titles together reveals why the archive is so useful.
These were not yet “retro games.” There was no established canon telling Semrad which releases would still be discussed forty years later. Zelda was simply a new game to evaluate. Metal Gear had not yet produced decades of sequels. Phantasy Star had not become a historic Sega role-playing series.
The reviews preserve first impressions before reputation hardened into history.
Milwaukee’s Players Became Part of the Story
“Video Adventures” also developed an unusually local character.
Milwaukee-area players supplied Semrad with information, strategies, codes, demonstrations, and gameplay recordings. A surviving archive maintained by one of those participants recalls players recording hours of gameplay onto VHS tapes and sharing techniques that could be incorporated into Semrad’s newspaper work.
The column’s “Hall of Fame” recorded accomplishments by players such as Jim Allee, Peter Skoufis, Rhett Manke, Wayne Radaj, and others.
One surviving November 1987 entry credited Allee as the first person to defeat Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, an accomplishment the archive says was verified by Nintendo. The same local network supplied expertise for other games and sometimes helped Semrad evaluate material shown at events such as the Consumer Electronics Show.
This was an early form of participatory game journalism.
The newspaper writer was not separated from the people actually mastering the games. Skilled players became sources. Their discoveries circulated through print. Readers could learn techniques that another Milwaukee player had spent hours uncovering at home.
Craig Schanning, who had competed in Milwaukee’s enormous 1982 Pac-Man event at County Stadium, later remembered secretly reviewing Atari 2600 games for the Green Sheet as a teenager. His recollections offer another glimpse of the community developing around the paper.
Before message boards, YouTube guides, livestreams, Discord servers, and speedrunning databases, a local newspaper was performing some of the same connective work.
From the Green Sheet to Electronic Gaming Monthly
Semrad’s career eventually carried that experience beyond Milwaukee.
He joined the early staff of Electronic Gaming Monthly, working with founder Steve Harris and eventually becoming the magazine’s editor-in-chief. EGM became one of the defining American video game magazines of the 1990s, known for reviews, previews, overseas reporting, screenshots, trade-show coverage, and aggressive efforts to document games before competitors could.
There is a clear continuity between the two eras.
The attention to upcoming software, interest in technical details, willingness to rely on skilled players, concern with release information, and obsession with documenting games were already visible in Semrad’s newspaper years.
The physical evidence of that career has survived as well.
In 2021, Frank Cifaldi and Kelsey Lewin of the Video Game History Foundation visited Semrad and examined boxes of material accumulated during his years covering games. They found review cartridges, prototypes, photographs, and other artifacts. Cifaldi described Semrad as a “completionist” and “perfectionist” who carefully documented games and trade shows. Some unfinished or unreleased games survive visually today because Semrad photographed them.
Among the material preserved from his collection were prototype cartridges for systems including the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, NES, and Sega hardware. Hidden Palace subsequently helped examine and preserve a number of those builds.
The reporter who once needed newspaper space to tell Milwaukee readers about upcoming cartridges had unknowingly become an archivist of the medium he covered.
Why The Milwaukee Journal Matters to Video Game History
Modern video game history often depends on sources that nobody originally expected historians to need.
A retailer advertisement can establish when a console was actually available. A review can prove that a cartridge existed by a particular week. A holiday buying guide can reveal what systems competed for shelf space. A strategy column can show what players knew before official guides explained a game’s secrets. A skeptical hardware review can remind us that the eventual winner did not always look inevitable.
The Milwaukee Journal offers all of those things.
Its 1981 and 1982 consumer reporting captures the first American console boom. “Stream of Video Games Is Endless” stands near the edge of the market collapse. Its 1983 coverage shows games surviving as a consumer category during the industry’s contraction. Semrad’s October 1985 report documents Nintendo while the NES was still an uncertain American experiment. His later columns preserve the arrival of games that would become landmarks of the medium.
That usefulness has been recognized by modern researchers. During a Video Game History Foundation discussion about reconstructing Atari release chronology, historian Kevin Bunch and Frank Cifaldi discussed Semrad’s newspaper work as a way to fill gaps left even by dedicated game publications. Cifaldi described the weekly column as potentially “gold” for precisely that kind of research.
There is something fitting about that.
The Green Sheet was created decades before electronic games entered American homes. It was never designed to become an archive of Nintendo release history or Atari prototypes. Yet because The Milwaukee Journal gave games space when many newspapers still treated them as a passing novelty, its pages now preserve details that sometimes survive nowhere else.
For historians trying to reconstruct what people actually knew, bought, played, disliked, anticipated, and argued about during the first great decades of home video games, Milwaukee’s old newspaper pages remain surprisingly alive.
The games changed. The machines disappeared from store shelves. The Green Sheet itself passed into history.
The record remained.
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“Video Bounty Expected.” The Milwaukee Journal, December 2, 1981, pt. 5, 3. https://www.odyssey2.info/library/newspapers/articles.php
Robinson, Karen. “Deciding What to Buy Is Part of the Video Game.” The Milwaukee Journal, November 22, 1982, Accent, 1, 5. https://odyssey2.info/library/newspapers/articles.php
“Just What Is the Harm in Video Games?” The Milwaukee Journal, November 22, 1982. https://odyssey2.info/library/newspapers/articles.php
“Stream of Video Games Is Endless.” The Milwaukee Journal, December 26, 1982, Business, 1. https://wiki.km6slftech.com/content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2025-08/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_of_America_Inc.
“Video Games.” The Milwaukee Journal, November 17, 1983, special section, “Electronics for Christmas,” 1. https://www.nabunetwork.com/download-manager.php?id=35
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Semrad, Edward J. “Atari’s ‘Jr Pac-Man’ Scores for Looks, Sound.” The Milwaukee Journal, June 26, 1986. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800
Semrad, Edward J. “And Now, A Novel Idea: Computer Literature.” The Milwaukee Journal, January 3, 1987. https://dtc-wsuv.org/elo-repositorytestsite/works/2414/0/0/
Semrad, Edward J. “Stumped by ‘Super Mario’? These Suggestions May Help.” The Milwaukee Journal, April 11, 1987. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
Semrad, Edward J. “Local Video Wizards Master ‘Super Mario’s’ Intricacies.” The Milwaukee Journal, April 18, 1987. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
Semrad, Edward J. “‘Harrier’s’ Big Memory Has Its Good, Bad Sides.” The Milwaukee Journal, May 16, 1987. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
Semrad, Edward J. “Konami’s ‘Castlevania’ a Superb Challenge.” The Milwaukee Journal, June 27, 1987. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
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Semrad, Edward J. “Exercise Game Is Fun, but Quite Expensive.” The Milwaukee Journal, August 22, 1987. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
Semrad, Edward J. “2 Games for Car-Racing Buffs.” The Milwaukee Journal, August 29, 1987. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
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Semrad, Edward J. “‘Wizards’ by Acclaim a Good Adventure Game.” The Milwaukee Journal, January 30, 1988. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
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Semrad, Edward J. “‘Gear’ a 10+ Beauty from Konami Spinoff.” The Milwaukee Journal, August 20, 1988. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
Semrad, Edward J. “‘Life Force’ Too Easy, Rates a 6.” The Milwaukee Journal, October 1, 1988. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
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Semrad, Edward J. “‘Midway’ a Well-Designed Shoot-’Em-Up.” The Milwaukee Journal, November 12, 1988. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
Semrad, Edward J. “‘Power Pad’ Isn’t Worth It.” The Milwaukee Journal, November 26, 1988. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
Semrad, Edward J. “‘Phantasy’ Is Costly, Difficult, Excellent.” The Milwaukee Journal, December 3, 1988. https://www.osgrelics.com/video-adventures
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