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Cultural ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

The Backlog, Issue 6, Spoiler Warning (Part I), August 2, 2017

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

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.

Dates: Publication: August 2, 2017

The Backlog, Issue 7, How to Tell a Story, December 6, 2017

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-MAZERATS-BACKLOG.7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: Publication: December 6, 2017

"Tracery: A text generation JS library" zine, est. late 2015 or early 2016

 Item
Identifier: EPHEMERA-LAWHEAD.08
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: est. late 2015 or early 2016

Video Magic newsletter, 1992–1993

 Series
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Publication: 1992–1993

Video Magic newsletter, Issue 111, October/ November 1993

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC.111
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: Publication: October/ November 1993

Video Magic newsletter, Issue 112, December 1993 / January 1994

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC.112
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: Publication: December 1993 / January 1994

Video Magic newsletter, Issue 113, February / March 1994

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC.113
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: Publication: February / March 1994

Video Magic newsletter, Issue 119, February / March 1995

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC.119
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: Publication: February / March 1995

Video Power contestant ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: EPHEMERA-VIDEOPOWER
Abstract

Video Power was a video game-themed television show that ran from 1990–1992. Although Video Power started out as a show about video game strategies, it was retooled as a game show for its second season. Chris Johnert, who was a contestant on episode 72 (according to paperwork from the show's producers), held onto the paperwork he was given during his participation on the show.

Dates: 1991

Video Power contestant pass, 1991

 Item
Identifier: EPHEMERA-VIDEOPOWER.1.2
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