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MAGFest 1 Program Book, September 27–29, 2002
This program was distributed to attendees at the first MAGFest event, held at the Holiday Inn Tanglewood in Roanoke, VA in September 2002.
MAGFest 1 staff badge, September 27–29, 2002
This collection contains items related to the founding of Omakecon and the promotion of the first MAGFest event. This includes materials related to other events and groups, particularly anime and gaming events in the Virginia area where the MAGFest community was first organized.
MAGFest founding and MAGFest 1 event ephemera, 2000–2002
The first MAGFest event in September 2002 originated as Omakecon, a video game-focused anime convention founded by members of the video game and anime communities in Roanoke, VA. Due to an organizational dispute, Omakecon was never held. Joseph Yamine, an organizer for the event and the owner of the Roanoke video game store Captain Gamestation, relaunched Omakecon as a video game event called the Mid-Atlantic Gaming Festival.
MAGFest guidebooks, promotional material, and ephemera
MAGFest (Music and Gaming Festival) is a series of community-run video game event with a focus on video game music and gaming culture. The events, run by the non-profit organization MAGFest, Inc., began in 2002 as the Mid-Atlantic Gaming Festival in Roanoke, Virginia. Since then, the organization has expanded to run multiple events and game concert series throughout the United States.
MAGFest promotion at E3 2002, May 22–24, 2002
These photographs were taken at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2002. Although MAGFest did not have an official presence at the event, Joseph Yamine, who ran the game store Captain Gamestation and founded MAGFest, attempted to promote the event on the show floor. Yamine spoke with people including Working Designs president Victor Ireland, whose company became a sponsor the first MAGFest event.
MAGFest promotional booth at Otakon 2002, July 26–28, 2002
This photograph shows the promotional booth for MAGFest at the Baltimore-area anime convention Otakon 2002.
Matchbox "Accelerated Video Games" publicity kit, distributed October 31, 1990
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.
Maxim, Volume 9, Number 6, "Three Kings: The Poker Pack", June 2005
Due to the irrelevance of most of this magazine's contents to video game history, the library's digital copy of this issue currently only includes the cover and the relevant article.
Content Note: Maxim contains sexual imagery and crude content.
Maxis, SimTower: The Vertical Empire sell sheet, December 1994
This is an unorganized collection of miscellanous video game flyers, likely sourced from trade show events. These items may be reorganized in the future as this collection grows.