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Multiplatform gaming -- Magazines

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3394 Collections and/or Records:

Game Players, Volume 9, Number 7, Issue 86, July 1996

 Item — Location Game Players
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS.86
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection includes nearly every known issue of Game Players in its various forms.Game Players was originally published as the Game Player's Guide, which alternated between covering Nintendo games and MS-DOS PC games. After four issues, it was relaunched as three separate magazines, covering Nintendo, PC, and general gaming, respectively. Several spinoff magazines followed, covering other platforms.All three editions of Game Player's...
Dates: Publication: July 1996
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEPLAYERS, Game Player's / Game Players / Game Buyer / Game Players

Game Players, Volume 9, Number 8, Issue 87, August 1996

 Item — Location Game Players
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS.87
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection includes nearly every known issue of Game Players in its various forms.Game Players was originally published as the Game Player's Guide, which alternated between covering Nintendo games and MS-DOS PC games. After four issues, it was relaunched as three separate magazines, covering Nintendo, PC, and general gaming, respectively. Several spinoff magazines followed, covering other platforms.All three editions of Game Player's...
Dates: Publication: August 1996
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEPLAYERS, Game Player's / Game Players / Game Buyer / Game Players

Game Players, Volume 9, Number 9, Issue 88, September 1996

 Item — Location Game Players
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPLAYERS.88
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection includes nearly every known issue of Game Players in its various forms.Game Players was originally published as the Game Player's Guide, which alternated between covering Nintendo games and MS-DOS PC games. After four issues, it was relaunched as three separate magazines, covering Nintendo, PC, and general gaming, respectively. Several spinoff magazines followed, covering other platforms.All three editions of Game Player's...
Dates: Publication: September 1996
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEPLAYERS, Game Player's / Game Players / Game Buyer / Game Players

GameFan

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEFAN
Abstract GameFan (originally titled Diehard GameFan or Diehard Game Fan through October 1995) was a monthly publication that billed itself as a "next generation video game magazine" and, later, as "the last true enthusiast magazine." Although the magazine covered a wide variety of games, they focused on specialty topics for a video game enthusiast audience, such as import games and role-playing games. GameFan was founded by...
Dates: Publication: Majority of material found within October 1991 – December 2000; Publication: April 2010 – Summer 2015
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / GameFan

GameFan Books Presents: Mortal Kombat 3 Komplete, 1995

 Item — Location Diehard GameFan
Identifier: MAG-GAMEFAN-SPECIAL.MK3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The library has a complete physical collection of the main run of GameFan. Due to publication difficulties, only five issues of Volume 6 were actually produced, although they retain issue numbering based on the month they were published. Volume 7, Issue 2 was also not produced.



The collection also includes several special issues of GameFan; the only print issue of the unofficial GameFan spin-off magazine GameGO!; and issues of the relaunched GameFan from 2010.

Dates: Publication: 1995
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEFAN, GameFan / GameFan special issues and spin-offs

GameFan / Destructoid Magazine, Issue 1, Summer 2015

 Item — Location Diehard GameFan
Identifier: MAG-GAMEFAN-GF2010.11
Abstract

This is the final, unnumbered issue of the 2010 reboot of GameFan, which also serves as the debut issue (and only issue) of Destructoid Magazine. GameFan starts on the front cover of the magazine, and Destructoid Magazine starts on the opposite cover with the pages inverted.

Dates: Publication: Summer 2015
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEFAN, GameFan / GameFan special issues and spin-offs / GameFan reboot

GameFan, Issue 7, December 2011

 Item — Location Diehard GameFan
Identifier: MAG-GAMEFAN-GF2010.07
Abstract

This is an issue from the second run of GameFan, which was re-launched in 2010 by GameFan founder Dave Halverson.

Dates: Publication: December 2011
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEFAN, GameFan / GameFan special issues and spin-offs / GameFan reboot

GameFan reboot, April 2010 – Summer 2015

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEFAN-GF2010
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The library has a complete physical collection of the main run of GameFan. Due to publication difficulties, only five issues of Volume 6 were actually produced, although they retain issue numbering based on the month they were published. Volume 7, Issue 2 was also not produced.



The collection also includes several special issues of GameFan; the only print issue of the unofficial GameFan spin-off magazine GameGO!; and issues of the relaunched GameFan from 2010.

Dates: Publication: April 2010 – Summer 2015
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEFAN, GameFan / GameFan special issues and spin-offs

GameFan special issues and spin-offs

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The library has a complete physical collection of the main run of GameFan. Due to publication difficulties, only five issues of Volume 6 were actually produced, although they retain issue numbering based on the month they were published. Volume 7, Issue 2 was also not produced.



The collection also includes several special issues of GameFan; the only print issue of the unofficial GameFan spin-off magazine GameGO!; and issues of the relaunched GameFan from 2010.

Dates: Publication: Majority of material found within October 1991 – December 2000; Publication: April 2010 – Summer 2015
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEFAN, GameFan

GameFan Sports Network, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 1997

 Item — Location Diehard GameFan
Identifier: MAG-GAMEFAN-SPECIAL.GSN1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The library has a complete physical collection of the main run of GameFan. Due to publication difficulties, only five issues of Volume 6 were actually produced, although they retain issue numbering based on the month they were published. Volume 7, Issue 2 was also not produced.



The collection also includes several special issues of GameFan; the only print issue of the unofficial GameFan spin-off magazine GameGO!; and issues of the relaunched GameFan from 2010.

Dates: Publication: Summer 1997
Found in: Video Game History Foundation Library / MAG-GAMEFAN, GameFan / GameFan special issues and spin-offs

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