NEW PROJECT ALERT: Retro Game Zine 011, 012, & 2025 ANNUAL

Hello everyone!

Retro Game Zine is coming back to Kickstarter for the final time this year! I am rounding out the year with issue 011 and 012 covering Harvest Moon on the SNES and Snatcher on the Sega CD. This will bring my goal of producing a monthly zine for an entire year to an end. It has been a lot of work, but a lot of fun, and I will let you know now, I don’t plan on stopping. I will be retooling, and I’ll share more about that later, but do know Retro Game Zine isn’t done!

I am also releasing a massive 340+ page collection of every issue released in 2025 in a single book called Retro Game Zine 2025 ANNUAL. This will be a great way for people who skipped the zine initially to check it out, or for those who want an easy to read single volume to put on your book shelf. It will have all of the same content from every issue, including all of the contributors essays, retro reviews, and game histories. I hope you all enjoy it!

The project will be launching on Kickstarter soon! So head to this link and get notified when it launches so you can get your issues, or the 2025 ANNUAL as soon as it launches. The early support goes helps push it up the charts for Kickstarter to internally promote it, and as always, you aren’t charged until the project ends, so if you planned to back it, please do as early as you can!

Here are some of the promotional images I made of the issues, as well as the cover art done as sticker mockups to see how amazing Ry-Spirits art for these issues is!

Thanks for all for your interest, your support, and helping me make these projects for an entire year. This isn’t something I could have done alone, and your support means more than you know. If you’ve read this far down, I will also share the secret cover art that will be unlocked during the campaign… Legendary cover artist Wil Overton is working on artwork for the actual cover right now! Ry-Spirits art will still be featured on the back cover and interior, and as a sticker, but having the chance to do something different for this collection with Wil was something I couldn’t pass up. If you don’t know his stuff, google “Wil Overton Samus” or check out his site. I’m excited.

That’s all I got for this newsletter! I just wanted to share a quick update on this new Kickstarter. I’ll be back when there is another new project to share!