Title
Paper Please: Lessons from Three Decades of Video Game Fanzines
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
Before dial-up internet forever changed one-to-many communication, video game fans, like science fiction fans before them, shared their views on games by exchanging copies of handmade publications––fanzines. Video game fanzines are sometimes crude, sometimes incisive, but always idiosyncratic, the products of unmistakably individual minds. In this talk, librarian Michael Hughes will discuss the history of game fandom’s print culture, including its little-remembered origins in "Joystick Jolter", a newsletter from New Jersey. He'll also discuss why fanzines matter, not just for their informational content but, in the words of Sherry Turkle, as “companions to our emotional lives or as provocations to thought”.
Repository Citation
Hughes, Michael J., "Paper Please: Lessons from Three Decades of Video Game Fanzines" (2019). Library Faculty Research. 100.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/lib_faculty/100
Slides from presentation
Comments
Presentation given at MAGFEST, January 2019, Maryland.