Growth
After launching its 'tell all your friends about us' campaign, Gameshow started to accumulate a small but dedicated mass of readers. Money was still in short supply, but the editors felt confident enough to 'upgrade' the magazine.
In 1996, the magazine was printed in color for the first time. It later grew in size as well, and eventually became a 96-page magazine printed on high quality A4 paper.
A bigger and better magazine captured more attention than a small and slim one. The sales got higher and higher, and for a while things looked good for Gameshow. The amateurish look and the unstructured style of the magazine fascinated many readers. These things were certainly more interesting for young people than the serious, down-to business tone of Pc Oyun.
However, two things went wrong. Murat Adanç (Mac) fell at odds with his fellow crewmen and left the project. This was a blow that Gameshow never fully recovered from, as his articles on heavy metal music and freelance philosophy were very popular. Also, the increasing quality of the magazine had inflated the costs of the project faster than the rise in sales.
In 1998, the magazine started her countdown: Numbers appeared on the cover of the magazine, and got smaller with each issue. Everyone wondered what was going to happen when they reached zero. Finally, the issue that answered the question arrived: Its cover was black, and bore the words:
"Artık demir alma günü gelmişse zamandan..." (If the day to set sail from the harbor of time has come...)
That was a reference to a famous Turkish poem "Sessiz Gemi" written by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, and the poem was about death. Gameshow was dead, the project was canceled.
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