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GamePro magazine was founded in late 1988 by Patrick Ferrell, Leeanne McDermott, Michael Kavish, and Lynne Kavish. The team operated out of private homes before securing their first office lease in Redwood City, California at the end of 1989.
GamePro created the concept of Protip as a short piece of advice attached to images within articles. Editors were encouraged to caption three-to-seven images used in an article with such advice, though one famous image showing how to defeat the Cyberdemon in Doom (1993) was revealed to be fake.
GamePro ended monthly publication after over 22 years with its October 2011 issue. It briefly changed to Gamepro Quarterly using higher quality paper stock but scrapped that format entirely when operations ceased on the 5th of December 2011.
GamePro appeared in several international editions including France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Brazil, and Greece. Australian GamePro ran from the 10th of November 2003 to February 2007 while other regions shared North American content or featured different content entirely.
Patrick Ferrell sent Debra Vernon to a meeting between games industry representatives and Consumer Electronics Show organizers in 1993. The team at Infotainment World launched Electronic Entertainment Expo commonly known as E3 later that same year.