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Looking for issues of the Joystick Jolter newsletter.....

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I was recently communicating with the founder of the Joystick Jolter newsletter. For those that are unfamiliar with it, the Joystick Jolter was a monthly newsletter from the 80s that provided video game reviews. Unfortunately, all his issues of the newsletter were lost in a flood many years ago. And he'd like to obtain either originals or copies for his records.

 

Would anyone out there happen to have any issues of the newsletter? If so, please let me know, as I'm interested in purchasing either originals or copies, including in digital form, so I can pass these along to him. Thanks.

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An AtariAge member was kind enough to send me images of the Feb./Mar. 1984 (Vol. 3, No. 1) issue of the Joystick Jolter newsletter, which I'm attaching here.  They were sent as a series of smartphone photos, but they're perfectly legible.  I don't see any other issues of the newsletter anywhere online.

 

I was reading that Joystick Jolter was the first video game fanzine and that many retailers used the publication as a purchasing guide for their stores, as mainstream magazine reviews were sometimes a month or two behind a game's release date.

 

It's a pretty interesting read.

JoystickJolter_FebMar_1984.pdf

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Thanks, I noticed Knight Rider is listed as a future 2600 release. I bet that would have taken a lot of hard work.

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