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GameFan Volume 7, Issue 12 - December 1999 Editor David Hodgson Eric Mylonas Categories, Frequency Monthly First issue October 1992 Final issue — Number December 2000 Volume 8, Issue 12 Company DieHard Gamers Club (1992-1996) Metropolis Media (1996-1998) Shinno Media (1999-2000) Country, Language English Website (defunct) GameFan (originally known as Diehard GameFan) was a publication started by and in September 1992 that provided coverage of domestic and. It was notable for its extensive use of game screenshots in page design because of the lack of good screen shots in other U.S. Publications at the time. The original magazine ceased publishing in December 2000. On April 2010, Halverson relaunched GameFan as a hybrid video game/film magazine. However, this relaunch was short-lived and suffered from many internal conflicts, advertising revenue being the main one. Contents • • • • • • • • • History [ ] The idea for the name Gamefan came from the Japanese Sega magazine called Megafan.

Although it began as an advertising supplement to sell imported video games mostly from Japan, the small text reviews and descriptions soon took on a life all their own, primarily due to the lack of refinement and sense of passion. Caricatures were given in place of actual editor profile, with profiles drawn exclusively by Terry Wolfinger. This particular method of reviewing and commenting seemingly freed its editors from the creative restraints commonly associated with competing publications.

It also allowed certain editors like Dave Halverson to write multiple reviews of the same game under different pseudonyms. GameFan Magazine was well known for its extensive import game coverage and its expansive coverage of the emerging interest in anime. Vyatta Web Proxy Setup.

Another major feature that separated GameFan from other gaming magazines was the high quality paper it was printed on. Gamefan’s game screen shots were the most colorful and faithfully resembled the game graphics. The death of GameFan Magazine is usually attributed to several factors. The primary cause was a series of lawsuits which had haunted the magazine for nearly its entire run (mainly stemming from a cadre of investors that felt they were fleeced during the earliest years of the publication's run), following it through numerous corporate iterations and change of hands. It is this lawsuit that, in fact, had prevented the sale of the print magazine and its continuation as a going concern (as it turns out, the deal was virtually all but final and was derailed at the 11th hour due to the aforementioned suit). Even after its demise, several staff members attempted to have the brand resurrected by the publisher of Computer Strategy Plus, based in Burlington, Vermont.

A deal could not be reached and the magazine was shuttered shortly thereafter (around the end of the first quarter of 2001.) Controversy [ ]. A scan of the page in the issue that contained the offensive words.

In the September 1995 issue of GameFan, an article was printed that contained several derogatory comments about (naming them 'little bastards', a racially derogatory term that was used to insult Japanese descendants and Japanese-Americans during the years of ). The text took the place of one of the paragraphs of one of the sports games reviews. The article discussed a flight-simulator,, rather than College Football '96 (which was the topic of the article) and was poorly written.

GameFan's official explanation was that a rogue employee had sabotaged the magazine in order to alienate its Japanese audience and fanbase. However, later reports indicated that it was actually that someone had neglected to remove, and the whole thing was an internal joke that accidentally got printed. A long apology (dated August 24, 1995) was published in DieHard GameFan's October 1995 issue in both English and Japanese, and a further apology appeared in the November 1995 issue. Staff [ ] Staff members of GameFan magazine had amusing aliases.