MAGFest
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Mid Atlantic Gamers Festival flyer, August 2001
Item — Location Event guidebooks: Series EVENTS-MAGFEST-01
Identifier: EVENTS-MAGFEST-01.06
Abstract
This flyer for MAGFest (seen here as the Mid Atlantic Gamers Festival) was distributed at the anime convention Otakon 2001.
Dates:
Publication: August 2001
Otakon 2001 program book, August 10–12, 2001
Item — Location Event guidebooks: Series EVENTS-MAGFEST-01
Identifier: EVENTS-MAGFEST-01.04
Abstract
This is a supplemental program for the anime convention Otakon, held at Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD in 2001. Flyers for MAGFest were distributed at this event, the first time MAGFest was promoted under that name (see "Mid Atlantic Gamers Festival flyer").
Dates:
Publication: August 10–12, 2001
RoAnime Club flyer, February 2000
Item
Identifier: EVENTS-MAGFEST-01.01
Abstract
This is a flyer for RoAnime Club, an anime club based out of Roanoke, VA. Members of RoAnime Club were the founders of the video game-focused anime fan event Omakecon, which would ultimately become MAGFest.
Dates:
Publication: February 2000
Star City Games & Comics tournament flyer, February 2001
Item
Identifier: EVENTS-MAGFEST-01.02
Abstract
This is a flyer for a video game tournament held at Star City Comics & Games in Roanoke, VA. These tournaments were run by members of the Roanoke-based anime fan group RoAnime Club. Joseph Yamine, the founder of MAGFest, was a member of RoAnime Club and helped run these tournaments; he credits them for inspiring the creation of the video game-focused anime convention Omakecon, which became MAGFest. According to Yamine, early MAGFest participants have retroactively described this...
Dates:
Publication: February 2001