Location Zines

Maze Rats is the publishing group name for writer Broson O'Quinn, who writes essays and zines about video games. This collection includes the full run of his zine The Backlog, as well as a single of Maze Rats Asks, produced with friends at the 2017 Kentucky Fried Zine Fest.

The library's zine collection currently holds five subcollections of zines by various authors and groups.

Zintendo is a self-published fanart zine featuring art based on characters and games from Nintendo consoles. The zine includes contributions from a variety of community artists and was published through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.

This Game Workers Unite zine was designed for the 2018 Game Developers Conference, shortly after the organization's public debut. This issue, featuring Sonic the Hedgehog on the cover, is themed to look like an issue of Nintendo Power magazine, including tongue-in-cheek references to a "free strategy guide inside." (The reference to "Issue 68" on the cover is part of the joke; it does not indicate an actual issue number.)

This Game Workers Unite zine was designed for the 2019 Game Developers Conference. Four variant covers were produced for this issue:

• Waluigi holding a rose, a symbol of Democratic Socialism
• Isabelle from Animal Crossing leading a march
• A picket line of game industry professionals
• A computer-generated egg character by artist mushbuh

This zine was likely printed and distributed around the time of the organization's public debut in 2018.

The library's zine collection currently holds five subcollections of zines by various authors and groups.

The library's zine collection currently holds five subcollections of zines by various authors and groups.

This collection includes three issues of the long-running, self-published newsletter Video Magic by Frank M. Polosky. The newsletter could be described as an early game collecting magazine. It contains sales listings for used video and computer games, reviews for games on older platforms, and advertisements for gaming magazines, newsletters, and services.

Issue 113 implies that these three issues were given away as a free sample.

The library's zine collection currently holds five subcollections of zines by various authors and groups.