Scoubidou

Scoubidou is also a song by Sacha Distel and was formerly the title of the cartoon Scooby-Doo in French. The influence of the magazine appears to have boosted the local popularity of such games as the X-COM and Jagged Alliance series, and Finnish sales of little-known classics like King of Dragon Pass can be disproportionate. In July 2004 German and Dutch research showed that scoubidou appears to contain an excessive amount of phthalates. Original and less mass-marketed games such as adventures, turn-based strategies and independently published ones are much respected. For examples of Scoubidous in popular culture, see the cult movie Napoleon Dynamite (2005). This can of course be seen as just a way to back up their image as "independent" and "above the rest of gaming magazines". Most of the knots used in Scoubidou were already used in Bast fibre, while the creations possible with Scoubidou are also similar in many ways to traditional corn dollys and to macrame. However, any and all deals that would restrict the staff's freedom to write what they wish are steadfastly refused, often as bribery.

Key chains, friendship bands and other trinkets are common, although more complicated shapes and figures can also be created. Multiple previews and reviews of pre-final versions of games are numerous today. They are used to make various items by binding them together with special knots. Pelit have always frowned upon hype but have themselves succumbed to it in last few years. They are sold in various colours, sizes and types. Recently the quality has decreased in some respect, as the magazine has started to extensively use screenshots from official press kits as opposed to their own screenshots of actual gameplay situations. Scoubidous are supple, round, hollow plastic tubes ususally about 80 centimetres in length. Game reviews are by far the most important part.

It uses commercially supplied plastic strips or tubes. It prides itself on providing quality content for its readers and intends to keep things that way. It came back into fashion in various countries, including the United Kingdom, in 2004 and 2005. The magazine's characteristic feature is its somewhat idealistic outlook, which can seem self-righteous to some. Scoubidou (Scoubi, Scoobie, or Boondoggle in the USA) is a plaiting and knotting craft, originally aimed at children, which originated in France, where it became a fad in the 1960s. Jyrki Kasvi has spent several years as a game reviewer, as well as a columnist under the pseudonym of Wexteen the Wizard. Its staff includes the accidental gaming icon Niko Nirvi and the cartoonist Wallu.

Pelit's editor-in-chief is Tuija Lindén. The most notable changes were the 1998 founding of its sister magazine, the PlayStation-based Peliasema, and the later merging of the two as a practical necessity with the growth of the console market and the weakening of the PC games market. While the magazine started with four computer platforms, coverage for the Amiga, Commodore 64 and Atari ST vanished along with the computers. A comic, KyöPelit, was started in 1993 and has since successfully avoided making sense.

Game solutions were dropped as the adventure and old-fashioned role-playing games, the primary subjects, dwindled. Its layout and contents have occasionally been revised over the years. In 1992, the staff of the semi-annual computer game book found themselves fed up with the limitations of their format, and thus the proper Pelit magazine was started. Another annual issue was published in 1988, and in 1989 it became semi-annual (two times per year).

Pelit is an old-timer, originally dating back to 1987, as an annual extra games-only issue of MikroBitti and C=Lehti. Recently some newcomers, mainly Pelaaja and Tilt have started to challenge its position as the sole choice for a serious Finnish gaming magazine. Being by far the largest of its kind in Finland and covering both PCs and consoles, it has for a long time lacked serious competition and is thought by many to be the magazine of its kind, especially on the side of computer games. Pelit (meaning "games") is a Finnish video games magazine published 11 times a year by Sanoma Magazines.