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Game On! USA

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEONUSA

Scope and Contents

This is a complete collection of all seven issues of Game On! USA. Although none of these issues have dates, the final issue states that it was published in November 1996, allowing us to backdate the other six (since the masthead indicates the magazine was published monthly).

Dates

  • Publication: 1996

Creator

Extent

7 Magazines

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Game On! USA: The Magazine of Electronic Manga Gaming was the American edition of the Japanese gaming magazine Game On! (ゲームオン!). The magazine focused exclusively on the Japanese game industry, particularly games with distinctive Japanese aesthetics, dubbed "manga gaming" by the magazine. As its marquee feature, each issue included several chapters of manga adaptations of video games with new English translations.

Game On! USA was published by Viz Communications, a company that specialized in publishing Japanese manga in the United States. The magazine was discontinued after only seven issuse; a letter from editor Jason Thompson printed in the final issue of Game On! USA suggests that the magazine may have been canceled due to consumer confusion over its emphasis on manga rather than video game coverage. Similar content continued to be published on the publisher's website Game Online! USA.

Holdings

Held:

  • Volume 1, Issues 1–7

Creator

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Video Game History Foundation Library Repository

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