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Mega Drive Advanced Gaming

magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ268671 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mega Drive Advanced Gaming was a magazine that focused on the Sega Mega Drive video game console, but would also cover the Mega-CD and 32X. Launched by Maverick Magazines around the same time as Future's MEGA in August 1992, with issue 1 cover dated as September 1992.

In 1995 the magazine ceased publication. Hugh Gollner, publisher and owner of Maverick Magazines, granted the magazine preservation project permission to scan, edit and release the back issues of Mega Drive Advanced Gaming.

Mega Drive Advanced Gaming was the launch-title for Maverick Magazines.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mega Drive Advanced Gaming” is magazine. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mega, Drive and Advanced, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1995—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1992-01-01, 1992-09—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Mega, Drive and Advanced is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mega Drive Advanced Gaming” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.