Family PC

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Family PC was a computer magazine printed by Ziff-Davis. It became defunct in the year 2002.

The magazine itself covered a wide varieties of topics that applied to families. It would cover and review hardware based upon who it was meant for, it would handle many tech support issues. And even though it did have PC in the title, it also contained articles and reviews for the Apple Macintosh regularly.

In software, it tended to cover education software, further going into Edutainment software, applications, and creativity tools. It also would cover games, though they tended to be extremely popular or very family safe. The exception would be the annual gaming issue they would do. Though they always did some of this before, after the Columbine High School massacre they began to say which age group the game was appropriate for and an explanation of any violence contained in the game.

Towards the end of the 20th century, they did more and more on E-Commerce and places to shop online where one could save money.

Ziff-Davis shut down the magazine in 2002.