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It was about 5 years after AVC stopped going to the Ti-fairs and about 2 years after the Mars Merchandising video game swap meets that the First annual Jagfest has started at the Ramada INN
at Rosemont, IL (not too far from AVC HQ in Melrose Park, IL back then).
Here are some highlights from Fest'97:
Jagfest 1997,the one that started the whole thing ,held in Rosemont
, Illinois on 7/19/1997. This also marked the first ever Jagfest issue
for the Atari Video Club. AVC also had the honor of holding pre-fest
 dinner at a local Burger king in Melrose Park, IL the night before.

Jagfest'97 official hosts were: Jeff Grimshaw, Kevin Manne and Wes Powell
(with Chad Ridgeway maintaining the first fest website).
 Highlights of this event was seeing Battlesphere being played in a network play
(this was before it was finished), hearing Tom Harker talk about Battlesphere
and AirCars, hearing that a new company called Visual Dimensions 3D was
 interested in making games for the Jaguar and Lynx.
 
Besides the games I mentioned a couple of Telegames games were
also being shown like World Tour racing, even though Carl Forhan
wasn't even known back than as he is now he had some body show
 off his new lynx games Ponx, SFX and Planar Wars.
 
Some com-lynx gaming was going on with War Birds and Cal. Games.
We even got to see the first Movie by Fard.
I didn't stay long though I had to leave at 4pm.
I estimated about 40 people have attended for this event.



The First Jagfest issue is now availble at the new stand with the new cover designed by cover contest design winner (it is also available in PDF format(minus the new cover)by request at the back issues page(a link to back issue page can be found on News Stand page on AVC Online) to view the new cover got the Jagfest secion
of the AVC news stand at cafepress.com


Jagfest Design contest has ended
Click Here for a list of winning issues