Winnie Forster

Winfried Ernst Forster (born 21 March 1969) is a German journalist, publisher, and video game critic. He founded several popular German video game magazines from the early 1990s to early 2000s.

Life Forster was born the son of German tax law Ernst Forster on 21 March 1969 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany. He is the nephew of Gerhard Forster, the President of the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 1994 to 2001, and grandson of entomologist and zoologist Walter Forster.

In his school days, Forster played many arcade games like Centipede, Galaga, Pooyan, and 1942. and Zivildienst till 1990, In 1990, he started working for the IT-Verlag Markt & Technik. and PC-Xtreme In 2000 and 2001, he realized the console special editions of GameStar, the prototype of today's GamePro, for IDG, as well as numerous reports and articles and product and market analyzes. In 2002, he founded his own publishing company GAMEplan, which he leads till today.

Since 2009, Forster has been talking with , and in the monthly Spieleveteranen-Podcast about historical and recent trends and events in the computer and video game industry.

Works (selection)

In German Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer 1972–2002. Gameplan, Utting, 2003. Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer 1972–2005. Gameplan, Utting, 2005. Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer 1972–2009. Gameplan, Utting, 2009. Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer 1972–2015. Gameplan, Utting, 2015. Joysticks. Gameplan, Utting 2004. Lexikon der Computer- und Video-Spielmacher. Gameplan, Utting, 2008. As publisher and translator: Volkscomputer: Aufstieg und Fall des Computer-Pioniers Commodore. Gameplan, Utting, 2011. As publisher, translator, and co-author: Atari: Kunst und Design der Videospiele. Gameplan, Utting, 2018.

In English

Encyclopedia of Game.Machines. Gameplan, Utting 2005. Steering through the Microworld. In: Friedrich von Borries: Space Time Play. Birkhäuser, Basel among 2007. Sega Game Applications: Console, Games and Development Possibilities. With Thorsten Oppermann in Walter Brenner/Lutz Kolbe: The Information Superhighway and Private Households. Physica-Verlag (Springer), Heidelberg, 1996.