Secret Service (magazine)

*Secret Service*
Categories	Game magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	ProScript
Year founded	1993
First issue	16 March 1993
Final issue	November 2001
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
ISSN	1230-7726

Secret Service was a Polish monthly magazine for gaming and consoles published from 1993-2001 by the ProScript publishing house. The first issue of the magazine was released on the 16th of March 1993. The initiators and founders of the magazine were Marcin Przasnyski and Waldemar Nowak, who had previously worked for Top Secret. The magazine disbanded after 95 issues. The magazine was reactivated in 2014 but only 2 issues were published.

History

Secret Service was the first magazine in Poland to have a cover disk (SS 19, 12/1994) or a cover CD (from the SS 36, SS 64 06/1996, 01/1999).

The last issue of Secret Service (No. 95) was released in November 2001. On December 31, 2001 a message notifying of the magazine being suspended appeared on the official website. A few days later the staff stated that the information was a result of their server being hacked. They stated that the only reason for the "confusion" was technical problems. Issue 96 (12/2001) was completed and sent 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 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 Secret Service was announced. On July 15, a crowdfunding campaign began with the goal of 93,000 PLN being reached in just 20 hours. Within a month, 284,200 PLN was collected. The first reactivated issue (97, as the reactivated magazine continued the numbering) was published on the 30th of September 2014 with 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 its place the publisher announced the release of a new monthly magazine, Pixel, whose first issue went on sale in late January 2015.

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