Mid Atlantic Gamers Festival flyer, August 2001

Item — Location: Event guidebooks

Identifier: EVENTS-MAGFEST-01.06

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This collection contains items related to the founding of Omakecon and the promotion of the first MAGFest event. This includes materials related to other events and groups, particularly anime and gaming events in the Virginia area where the MAGFest community was first organized.

Dates

Publication: August 2001

Creator

MAGFest, Inc (Publisher, Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

MAGFest, Inc. and Joseph Yamine have given the Video Game History Foundation permission to make their materials viewable and downloadable in our digital archive for research and educational purposes. This does not apply to materials in this collection produced by other organizations or individuals.

Biographical / Historical

MAGFest is identified on this flyer as the Mid Atlantic Gamers Festival. By the time the event was held in September 2002, it was named the Mid-Atlantic Gaming Festival.

MAGFest was originally planned as Omakecon, an anime convention with a video game focus. According to a presentation by MAGFest founder Joseph Yamine at MAGFest X in 2012, the event rebranded shortly before Otakon 2001. Likely because of the short turnaround, this flyer from Otakon 2001 still uses the URL for that previous iteration of the event, www.omakecon.com.

In emails to the Video Game History Foundation, Yamine recalled that MAGFest did not have a booth at Otakon 2001, but that he put out "a stack of flyers" at the event. Although Yamine said that Omakecon had been promoted at earlier community events in the Virginia area, such as Anime Mid-Atlantic and the sci-fi convention ShivaCon, this marks the first time that the event was promoted under the name MAGFest.

Full Extent

1 Pages

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

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

Custodial History

This item was donated to Video Game History Foundation by Chris Kohler. Kohler was an attendee of Otakon 2001, where this flyer was distributed; his donation also included the program and pocket program for Otakon 2001.