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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 promotion at E3 2004, May 11–14, 2004
These photographs were taken at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2004. Although MAGFest did not have an official presence at the event, Joseph Yamine, who founded MAGFest, represented and promote the event on the show floor with MAGFest organizer Pernell Vaughan and attendee Matt Reis.
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.
Magnavox, Odyssey² Video Game Christmas Gift Guide, Holiday 1984
This collection of flyers was distributed, along with an order form, to promote Odyssey games and hardware for the 1984 holiday season.
"Market Demographics: That Was Then, This Is Now" panel photographs, May 17, 1996
This subcollection includes ephemera from E3 1996–2012. This mainly encompasses press kits, brochures, photographs, and promotional CDs.
Massive Gamer, Volume 1, Number 1, Issue 1, August 2008
This is a collection of one-off, shorter, or incomplete collections of genre-specific magazines.
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.