History
In the year of our Lord
In the year of our Lord 2005 Family Friendly Gaming came into existence. It dawned on a few people that there was no Christian video game magazines. All of the video game magazines on the market call good evil, and evil good. No one was standing up for Christians in the publishing world of video game magazines. In fact the opposite was true. Christians were being mocked by those who ran the video game magazines at that time.
A few bold people stood up, and said no. An innovative, and note worthy direction was begun. A small band of believers got together, and decided to shine the light of Jesus Christ in the video game magazine arena. This small band of believers formed the first ever Christian video game magazine - Family Friendly Gaming. The innovations did not end there, as they decided to sell the magazine in hard copy format, CD format, and online format. Family Friendly Gaming was also the first to provide a comprehensive listing of all the Christian video game developers.
The website came out on 03/13/2005 to announce the arrival of the magazine. Just before June 2005 Family Friendly Gaming issue #1 came out with Bibleman on the front cover. The reaction from the Christian community was excitement, and interest. Issue #1 was so ground breaking that Dightman's stores in Tacoma, WA carried it. Church goers all over the Pacific Northwest were discussing this revolutionary new magazine. Non-Christian gamers took an interest as well. In fact Family Friendly Gaming receives a lot of comments from them in regards to how fair and balanced the website and magazine are.
One of the motto's of Family Friendly Gaming is: "we are not politically correct, we are Biblically correct." This motto has served all of the staff members quite well in getting across their vision for the project. Staff at Family Friendly Gaming embrace the traditional values, traditional history, and traditional definitions of words. They find it the height of arrogance (hubris) to try and reshape, re-mold, and redefine the world in a manner that is very destructive to society.
Family Friendly Gaming does not spend a lot of time exposing the frauds of political correctness. Instead they focus on the good video games that are friendly to the family. There are many video games out there that are not receiving the positive press they so richly deserve. Family Friendly Gaming steps up to the plate and rights that wrong. Staff at Family Friendly Gaming have found that focusing on these games improves their mood, outlook, and dispositions. There are quite a few good video games that help us improve in many different manners. It is the honor of the staff to bring these to the attention of gamers.
Since there are no good, historically accurate websites that founders of Family Friendly Gaming have been able to find to give a history of this ministry/business - it was decided to do our own. There is a wiki site that is enslaved by political correctness that is really not note worthy enough to even mention. It is interesting to note that Family Friendly Gaming is part business, and part ministry.
The founders of Family Friendly Gaming were quite pleased to receive their trademark from the US Patent and Trademark Offices in just under one year from the original application. The states attorneys were pleasant to work with, and supportive in many ways to the founders of this company.
Fairness is one of things that keeps Family Friendly Gaming separate from the secular gaming magazines. All those involved with Family Friendly Gaming decided early on that they would be fair with their reporting, editorials, previews, and reviews. Honesty would be the policy in dealing with advertisers, readers, fans, PR firms, and developers. Family Friendly Gaming was the first magazine to take the time to honestly report on all sides of the side effects of video games.
In January of the year of our Lord 2007 Family Friendly Gaming moved from the Pacific Northwest to Arkansas. This major undertaking was performed for multiple reasons that the owners of Family Friendly Gaming have expressed. A few of the reasons were the climate, people, area, educational system, and political system. Family Friendly Gaming experienced a few hiccups in that transitionary year, but have been able to work through all of them.
