#exp.

Well, I absolutely did not expect it to take an entire year from exp. 2600 to the next issue, but such is life, honestly. Either way I'm terrifically pleased to announce that exp. 2601 will be debuting this weekend as part of Spring Online Canzine 2024, Canada's premiere zine festival running April 13th to 21st. 

This issue covers the eleven games released for the Atari 2600 in 1978, with essays on Space Invaders and the year 1978 to provide context. Even if you're not particularly interested in the Atari 2600, I think there's a lot in here for anyone interested in video games and their history, so I hope you'll check it out.

As with the first issue, exp. 2601 is being published in a signed, numbered limited edition of 52 and I'm also making it available as a PDF and ebook for people who don't want a little object, but still want something to read on an iPad or a Kindle with a bit more focus than they'd give to a webpage.

I am opening pre-orders here today, in advance of Canzine, so I can announce the issue with enough time to ensure subscribers know about it and are aware that they automatically receive 35% off in our ko-fi shop (including on new issues.) It's just $1 per month to become a subscriber, and you'll also get new articles a week early (as well as regular exclusive articles.) Physical copies will be sent out in the last week of April, with digital copies arriving as soon as Canzine begins.

In addition, and not to bury the lede here, for the first time since 2020 my ebook collecting the best of the original run of exp., exp. negatives, is also available for pre-order today, and will be on sale during, and only during, Spring Online Canzine 2024 (to reiterate: April 13th-21st).

If you don't have any of my available digital publications (exp. 2600, 2601, and negatives) I have also made a bundle of all three available for pre-order with a $2 discount for all (and if you're a subscriber, that stacks with your discount!)

Hello!

If you've been following this tumblr for a long time, you might be aware that it began as a sequel, in some respects, to a zine, exp., I published for a while to at least a modicum of critical and cult success (as far as zines go, anyway) and which I stopped publishing because... well, I'm not really sure why I stopped doing it at the time, but I do know that for nigh-on ten years now Every Game I've Finished has served as a pleasant outlet for my writing. However, since I've actually organized my "system" for playing games and have ended up playing a lot more retro titles, I'm now generating so much writing that it's starting to feel like a bit of a waste to just keep throwing it into the ether. Especially as now social media is a raging bin fire. No one looks at Facebook, Twitter is meaningless for sharing things you care about, and I'm sorry, but I can't turn two thousand words on A Mind Forever Voyaging into a series of Tik Toks. Well, maybe I can, I just don't want to.

So I've decided to give zines another shot. This issue, exp. 2600, is a proof-of-concept for what I intend to be a regular series of zines giving people who want to genuinely engage with thoughtful and hopefully funny writing on video games a little object to have, hold and enjoy. This issue covers the ten launch games of the Atari 2600, including essays on Pong and the year 1977 to provide context.

Our first issue is being published in a signed, numbered limited edition of 52, and I'm also making it available as a PDF and ebook for people who don't want a little object, but still want something to read on an iPad or a Kindle with a bit more focus than they'd give to a webpage. You can pre-order them both both at our ko-fi shop or our bigcartel, with issues being sent out in the first week of May.

exp. 2600 digital edition is now back on sale! Immediate download of the pdf/epub over at my ko-fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/s/176bc879cd

Massive news in the exp.-o-verse: the much sought after (probably) exp. negatives, a collection of articles from the print zine exp., is available once again as part of Storybundle’s Greatest Hits Game Bundle which gives you an absurd 95 books for $30.

(You can also pick up five books for $5, but you don’t get exp. negatives...)