Retrogaming

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This is an ongoing collection of Fusion. Some issues are missing, particularly special issues.

For the first 21 issues (and specials through 2021), Fusion came with a collectible trading card featuring the issue's cover art. When available, these trading cards were left inside the magazines and were not cataloged. Some trading cards may be missing.

Abstract Hardcore Gamer was a magazine by DoubleJump Publishing, founded by alumni of GameFan magazine, that covered current and retro games. Similar to GameFan, Hardcore Gamer had a special focus on import gaming and niche subgenres that received less coverage in mainstream publications, like Japanese role-playing games.The magazine ran for three and a half years on a semi-regular schedule until 2009, when publisher Tim Lindquist sold the rights to Hardcore Gamer on eBay to an unknown...

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This collection incldues concept art, design documents, correspondence, and other documentation from Gabe Swarr's work as character designer for the 2003 video game Go! Go! Hypergrind. The collection also includes a small assortment of zines, cards, and memorabilia illustrated by Swarr; some of these materials have not been scanned.

Content Note: This collection includes depictions of nudity and other suggestive content.

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The library's copy of this zine has a personalized dedication from the author to Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi on the inside cover.

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Incredibly Strange Games is a zine and accompanying blog by Chris Charla, exploring unusual retro video games and retrogaming culture. At least three issues were published.

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The library has two copies of this issue of Incredibly Strange Games, one of which is a "Special Monochrome Edition." This edition comes with a handwritten note promoting the next issue of the zine.

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

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

Abstract Mega Visions (also called Mega Visions Magazine) is a retrogaming magazine edited and published by Chris Powell. Originally launched in 2016 as a digital-only retro Sega fan magazine, Mega Visions has been relaunched twice, first in 2018 as a physical and digital hybrid artbook magazine, then again as a "neo retro" magazine in 2021 that also covers modern retro-style games.Originally intended to be published quarterly, since 2018, the magazine...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This ongoing collection includes every print issue of Mega Visions.According to Mega Visions editor-in-chief Chris Powell, the original digital-only issues of Mega Visions (Issues 0–5) were produced using a custom interactive digital format, which cannot be easily reproduced outside its original (and now-discontinued) format. These issues will likely not be collected by the library.Starting with the second relaunch of Mega Visions in Fall 2021 (nickamed Mega Visions...