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Promotional publications

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 739 Collections and/or Records:

Game Candy, undated, distributed December/January 2009

 Item — Location Imagine Town Magazine
Identifier: MAG-IMAGINETOWN.1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection includes all three known issues of Ubisoft's girl game magazine, including several duplicate copies. Based on their publication dates and magazine content, we believe these are the only three issues of this magazine series. When known, we have noted which magazines each issue was distributed with.

Dates: Issued: undated, distributed December/January 2009

Game Developer Mobile, Sponsored by Nokia, Volume 1, Issue 1, February 2003

 Item — Location Game Developer
Identifier: MAG-GD-MOBILE.V1I1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This is a nearly complete collection of Game Developer and its many supplements, including the Game Developer Game Career Guides. Where applicable, supplements are organized with the issues they were bundled with.

Dates: Publication: February 2003

Game Developer Mobile, Sponsored by Nokia, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2003

 Item — Location Game Developer
Identifier: MAG-GD-MOBILE.V1I2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This is a nearly complete collection of Game Developer and its many supplements, including the Game Developer Game Career Guides. Where applicable, supplements are organized with the issues they were bundled with.

Dates: Publication: April 2003

Game Developer Mobile, Sponsored by Nokia, Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2003

 Item — Location Game Developer
Identifier: MAG-GD-MOBILE.V1I3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This is a nearly complete collection of Game Developer and its many supplements, including the Game Developer Game Career Guides. Where applicable, supplements are organized with the issues they were bundled with.

Dates: Publication: June 2003

Game Players Nintendo-Sega presents Virgin: The New Games supplement, est. 1994

 Item — Location Game Players
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS-SUPPLEMENTS.3
Scope and Contents From the Series: The library's physical collection includes every known issue of Game Players in its various forms. Our digital library currently includes almost all issues of the magazine, with an exception of one issue of Game Player's PC (Volume 3, Number 1, January/February 1990) and several editions of Game Player's Encyclopedia.Game Players was originally published as the Game Player's Guide, which alternated between covering Nintendo games and MS-DOS PC games....
Dates: Publication: est. 1994

Game Player's, Nintendo supplements, 1992

 Sub-Series
Abstract

The supplements in this sub-collection were distributed with issues of Game Player's Nintendo Guide. Because we were unable to match them with specific issues, we have cataloged them in this sub-collection.

Dates: 1992

Game Players supplements, 1993–1995

 Sub-Series
Abstract

The supplements in this sub-collection were distributed with issues of Game Players. Because we were unable to match them with specific issues, we have cataloged them in this sub-collection.

Dates: 1993–1995

Game publisher publicity kits, brochures, and catalogs, assorted

 Collection
Identifier: PROMO-KITS
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of folders and catalogs that video game publishers used to advertise their games. Based on the included information, it is unclear if these were intended for retailers or the press, possibly both, since they contain information about product ordering as well as general press releases. Unless otherwise noted, the original provenance of these folders is unclear.

Dates: 1987–2012

Game-specific promotional magazines, assorted

 Collection
Identifier: MAG-GAMEMAGS
Abstract

As part of their promotional campaigns, game publishers would occassionally publish one-off or short-run magazines based on individual game titles or franchises.

Dates: Publication: 2005

Gamemania Power mail-order catalog, circa 1990

 Item — Location Retailer catalogs
Identifier: PROMO-RETAILER-GAMEMANIA.1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection currently includes several dozen video game and software retailer catalogs. This includes both physical and mail-order retailers. Catalogs sent directly by game publishers are separately (see "Video game publisher product catalogs").

Dates: Publication: circa 1990