 The proliferation of PBM companies in the 1980s supported the publication of a number of newsletters from individual play-by-mail companies as well as independent publications which focused solely on the play-by-mail gaming industry such as the relatively short-lived "The Nuts & Bolts of PBM" and "Gaming Universal".The PBM genre's "two preeminent magazines" of the period were "Flagship" and "Paper Mayhem".Also in the mid-1980s, "general gaming magazines" began carrying articles on PBM and run PBM advertisements, and the Origins Awards began a "Best PBM Game" category.