𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐄 No. 8

Halt and catch flames. Our most excitable zine has arrived. From the ultra-fantasies of cyberspace to the street goths of Queen West, FUNLAND NO. 08 is logging the heck in.

Miss the playful design and discovery of magazines like EGM, Nintendo Power and Famitsu? Want to fling your eyes into pages of previews, reviews, profiles, essays and art about the wildest new game things? To you, I say: Welcome to FUNLAND. 

Instead of merely being an exercise in nostalgia or aesthetics, FUNLAND blends sensibilities of olde with coverage that better reflects our modern tone, scope and politics. A queering of GamePro. A zine that seeks to explore the exciting fringes of games and adjacent culture.

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IN THIS ISSUE:

• For nearly 20 years, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol have been scheming, filming and gaming their way into fame. Now it has culminated into a grand adventure, NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, an odyssey through 21st century Toronto. Hailey Rose Ferguson speaks to the duo about their quest for the Rivoli, how to be prepared for anything and their closest calls.
• As personal computing dominated the ‘90s, mainstream smut peddlers attempted to predict the future of cybersex. Historian Joey Wawzonek looks at how, despite the efforts of queer editor Justin David, Hustler’s Hard Drive failed to titillate the liberation of circuit erotica.
• Longtime satirist JUSTIN "CAPTAIN GAMES" SMITH is hitting the race tracks. We talk about HORSEY GAME, how the practice of gambling spoils the potential of gambling and why all gaming is an act of farce. 
• If you can't blame your dog for taking your homework, look to the world beyond. We speak with the MINI BUNNIES team about AFTER SCHOOL AFTERLIFE, finding folklore at grandma's house and the surprising supernatural influence on secular Singapore.
• It has never been less fine than now. But it can be, if we try. We talk to cartoonist KC GREEN about THIS IS FINE: MAXIMUM COPE, how to keep control of your meme and how Question Hound will find salvation in a metroidvania.
• In this month's GUIDE TO LEAVING THE HOUSE: We Pokemon Go to the poles. South Pole that is. Why one Pokemon master sought pocket creatures at the end of the Earth.
• REVIEWS! PREVIEWS! AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!

Cover by Alec Robbins. Funlad (our goblin mascot) designed by Olea Kim. FUNLAND logo by Rodrigo Bravo. FUNLAND is a proud part of the Superculture Network, a collective of critical gaming coverage such as Bullet Points Monthly, Heterotopias, the BAD END podcast and more!