A new book staff telling the history of video games through the eyes of one of gaming’s greatest magazines, Electronic Gaming Monthly, has raised over $250,000 from crowdfunding. It quickly reached its initial funding goal of $35,000 in under three hours and over the last week has had over 3,500 backers get involved. Since then, every stretch goal has been achieved, including creating a brand new one-off magazine.

Electronic Gaming Monthly ran for over 25 years and was read by millions worldwide. The new book, called EGM Compendium, uses old excerpts from the magazine and puts a new spin on the history of video games through features and insights. It will contain 320 pages packed with nostalgia and retrospectives on beloved games. The campaign also aims to preserve every issue of EGM digitally on a new website that backers of the book will get early access to.

Speaking about the project, EGM Compendium co-author Josh Harmon said. “When planning this Kickstarter, our goal was to not only deliver a detailed history of video games as seen through the lens of EGM but also to create an archive to preserve and protect the legacy of the magazine. We thought it would also be exciting to create a stretch goal that, while likely unattainable, would give us something to push for in the home stretch. Creating a brand new issue of EGM was that goal. Little did we know that EGM fans like you would be so generous and supportive of this campaign that in under three days this goal would become a reality. In 2025 a new issue of EGM will be in your hands.”