Chris Kohler

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This is a near-complete collection of Electronic Gaming Retail News, including three Consumer Electronics Show specials. Several of this issues are on permanent loan to the library. Issued are numbered as they appear in the physical magazine. For example, the 1992 Summer CES issue is labeled Issue 10.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This is a near-complete collection of Electronic Gaming Retail News, including three Consumer Electronics Show specials. Several of this issues are on permanent loan to the library. Issued are numbered as they appear in the physical magazine. For example, the 1992 Summer CES issue is labeled Issue 10.

Abstract

In 1980, the Mego toy company licensed the Game & Watch handheld games by Nintendo for North American release under the name "Time-Out." This commercial is believed to be the second revision of the commercial for the "Time-Out" Toss-Up, better known by its original title, Game & Watch: Ball.

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This flyer for MAGFest (seen here as the Mid Atlantic Gamers Festival) was distributed at the anime convention Otakon 2001.

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This is a supplemental program for the anime convention Otakon, held at Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD in 2001. Flyers for MAGFest were distributed at this event, the first time MAGFest was promoted under that name (see "Mid Atlantic Gamers Festival flyer").

Abstract Penny Power (later titled Zillions) was a consumer economics magazine for children, publishing by the makers of Consumer Reports. Like the adult version of Consumer Reports, Penny Power reviews and analyzed products for children and their associated costs. This included coverage of video games and electronic games. The magazine was relaunched under the name Zillions in mid-1990, though its content remained the same.Across its entire run, the magazine was...