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| title image_file = Commodore Power/-Play February–March 1986.jpg

| image_caption = February/March 1986 issue

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| editor =

| frequency = Bi-monthly

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| category = [[Home computer magazines]]

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| publisher = Commodore Business Machines

| firstdate = Volume I, Number 1 (1982)

| country founded = [[United States]]1982

| languagecountry = [[EnglishUnited language|English]]States

| website language = English

| based = [[West Chester, Pennsylvania]]

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| finaldate = October/November 1986

| finalnumber = Volume 5, Number 5 (Issue 23)

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'''''Commodore Power/Play''''' was a one of a pair of computer magazines published by [[Commodore Business Machines]] in the [[USA|United States]] in support of their [[8-bit]] [[home computer]] lines of the 1980s. The other was called ''Commodore Interface'', changed to just ''Commodore'' in 1981, Microcomputers''Commodore Microcomputer'' in 1983, and finally to ''Commodore Microcomputers'' in 1984 and for the rest of its run. The two magazines were published on an alternating, bimonthly schedule.▼

==History and profile==

▲'''''Commodore Power/Play''''' was a one of a pair of computer magazines published by [[Commodore Business Machines]] in the [[USA|United States]] in support of their [[8-bit]] [[home computer]] lines of the 1980s. The other was called '''Commodore Microcomputers'''. The two magazines were published on an alternating, bimonthly schedule.

''Power/Play'' was started in 1982 as a quarterly publication.<ref>{{cite book|author=Roberto Dillon|title=Ready: A Commodore 64 Retrospective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecuoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|accessdate=February 12, 2017|date=December 3, 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-981-287-341-5|page=113}}</ref> The magazine was targeted at the home computer user, emphasizing [[video games]], educational and hobbyist uses of the [[Commodore 64]]/[[Commodore 128|128]] and [[Commodore VIC-20]] models.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/c64_programmers_reference/c64-programmers_reference_guide-00-toc_introduction.pdf|title=Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide|quote=When it comes to entertainment, learning at home and practical home applications, Power/Play is THE prime source of information for Commodore home users}}</ref> ''Commodore Microcomputers'' initially served Commodore's business customers using the [[Commodore PET|PET]] and [[Commodore CBM-II|CBM]] lines but as the business market segments standardized on [[CP/M]] and later [[MSDOSMS-DOS]], the coverage of the two magazines essentially overlapped, until the November 1986 issue, when both magazines were switched from a bi-monthly to a monthly schedule and retitled '''Commodore Magazine'''. <ref>[http://amr.abime.net/issue_2672 Issue 2672]</ref>▼

▲''Power/Play'' was targeted at the home computer user, emphasizing [[video games]], educational and hobbyist uses of the [[Commodore 64]]/[[Commodore 128|128]] and [[Commodore VIC-20]] models.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/c64_programmers_reference/c64-programmers_reference_guide-00-toc_introduction.pdf|title=Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide|quote=When it comes to entertainment, learning at home and practical home applications, Power/Play is THE prime source of information for Commodore home users}}</ref> ''Commodore Microcomputers'' initially served Commodore's business customers using the [[Commodore PET|PET]] and [[Commodore CBM-II|CBM]] lines but as the business market segments standardized on [[CP/M]] and later [[MSDOS]], the coverage of the two magazines essentially overlapped, until the November 1986 issue, when both magazines were switched from a bi-monthly to a monthly schedule and retitled '''Commodore Magazine'''. [http://amr.abime.net/issue_2672]

==References==

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==External links==

* [httphttps://www.scribd.com/doc/14501153/Commodore-PowerPlay-1985-Issue-17-V4-N05-Oct-Nov Oct/Nov 1985 issue]▼

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