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Cultural ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Acclaim "Consumer Highlights" packet, Spring 1994

 Item
Identifier: FLITMAN-ACCLAIM-BUSINESS.5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes scanned documents, digital images, disc images, and audiovisual recordings of material collected during the career of game producer Mark Flitman. The collection includes internal business and development documents, guidelines and research for licensed properties, production assets, personal correspondences, and related memorabilia and newsclippings.The materials in this collection have been arranged based on the companies Mark Flitman worked at during his...
Dates: Spring 1994

Analog, Issue 6, May 2019

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-ANALOG.6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

Dates: Publication: May 2019

Cards and invitations, est. 1992–1996

 Series
Identifier: FLITMAN-CARDS
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes scanned documents, digital images, disc images, and audiovisual recordings of material collected during the career of game producer Mark Flitman. The collection includes internal business and development documents, guidelines and research for licensed properties, production assets, personal correspondences, and related memorabilia and newsclippings.The materials in this collection have been arranged based on the companies Mark Flitman worked at during his...
Dates: est. 1992–1996

Disintegrated Data, 2016

 Item
Identifier: EPHEMERA-LAWHEAD.03
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a collection of zines and ephemera donated to the Video Game History Foundation by Nathalie Lawhead. Lawhead collected these zines from events they attended between roughly 2016–2018.

Dates: Publication: 2016

Encyclopedia of Generativity zine, 2017

 Item
Identifier: EPHEMERA-LAWHEAD.10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a collection of zines and ephemera donated to the Video Game History Foundation by Nathalie Lawhead. Lawhead collected these zines from events they attended between roughly 2016–2018.

Dates: Publication: 2017

Envelope from Video Power, post-recording, September 19, 1991

 Item
Identifier: EPHEMERA-VIDEOPOWER.2.0
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a digital collection of scanned paperwork ephemera given to Chris Johnert when he appeared as a contestant on a 1991 episode of the television game show Video Power, along with an off-air recording of his episode.

Dates: Issued: September 19, 1991

Envelope from Video Power, pre-recording, 1991

 Item
Identifier: EPHEMERA-VIDEOPOWER.1.0
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a digital collection of scanned paperwork ephemera given to Chris Johnert when he appeared as a contestant on a 1991 episode of the television game show Video Power, along with an off-air recording of his episode.

Dates: Issued: 1991

Frontier, Number 21, 2019

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-FRONTIER.21
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

Dates: Publication: 2019

Game Workers Unite ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: EPHEMERA-GWU
Abstract Game Workers Unite (GWU) was one of the first labor advocacy groups for the video game industry. The organization, which was founded in 2018, promoted awareness of labor rights and the benefits of unionization. One of GWU's most visible forms of advocacy was distributing zines at video game industry events between 2018 and 2020. The international GWU parent organization appears to have disbanded in 2020 amid ...
Dates: Publication: 2018–2020

Game Workers Unite, Game Developers Conference 2018 zine, March 2018

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG
Identifier: EPHEMERA-GWU.GDC2018
Abstract

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.)

Dates: Publication: March 2018