GameFan Volume 4 Issue 08 (August 1996)

The magazine started off called Die Hard Game Fan, which would be modified into DieHard GameFan as time went on. Dave Halverson created an impot game store called Die Hard Super Store in 1989. He says he "left" the store to create the magazine. They dropped the "diehard" from the front cover on issue Vol 4 Issue 01 but they would still be called DieHard GameFan on the Editorial page, and published by DieHard Publishing until Gamefan Vol 4 Issue 06.

GameFan was then purchased by Metropolis Media, which was owned by David Bergstein. starting with Gamefan Vol 4 Issue 07 they were now published by Metropolis Media (though the address was the same as the previous, so the offices didn't change. This is technically when the "DieHard" was removed from the magazine's pages internally. The import game store was called Diehard Gamers Club by this point, and it continued to have an ad in the mag for now. Metropolis Media was a shady business, taking profits from GameFan and putting them into other projects, not to mention employees having multiple issues getting paid on time. It would get so bad the Halverson would conduct a meeting at his house in 1998 about starting a new magazine. This is when he started Gamers' Republic a bit later, and there came a point when he was just gone from the GF offices. With some of his stuff still there. He would later create the US version of Play Magazine.

Magazine Highlights (Volume 4 Issue 08) I still enjoy these issues on Retromags. I have seen many other issues of Game Fan have the edges of the pages cut off, but these done by Retromags always have the full-frame of the page, so thanks for that. we got previews for Burning Road, Tomb Raider, Disruptor, Street Racer, Legacy of Kain, NiGHTS, Virtua Fighter Kids. PowerSlave and more. And reviews for DarkStalkers, Fade to Black, MotorToon 2, and a handful of import RPGs (like Treasure Hunter G on snes, and Sword & Sorcery on Saturn). Plus 11 pages of sports, a great issue.