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Fangamer
Type of site
Retail
Available inEnglish
URLfangamer.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedAugust 2008; 16 years ago (2008-08)
Current statusActive

Fangamer is a video game merchandising site which was spun out from Starmen.net, an EarthBound online forum.[1] It operates an online store that sells items such as hats, pins, vinyl records and t-shirts and other video game apparel. In recent years the site has also begun selling physical editions of video games.

History

Starmen.net, an online forum, began selling T-shirts and mugs in 2007 as a way to pay for the server costs of the site. One of the creators of the site stated, "Well, the ads weren’t paying the bills, so we thought, ‘What if we took the kinda-crappy print-on-demand stuff we’re making on CafePress, and we did it at a much higher-quality?". The next year, Fangamer was launched with an initial offering of "two t-shirts, a pin set, and a mug" based on Earthbound.[2] After the success of this initial run of merchandise, Fangamer started to expand into creating items for other games such as Phoenix Wright and Chrono Trigger. To avoid infringement of the various video game properties they were creating items for at the time, the site avoided using designs with any copyrighted symbols.[1] Fangamer also produced physical copies of Starmen.net's unofficial "player's guide" for Mother 3.[3][4]

In the mid-2010's Fangamer became known as a fulfillment partner for video game Kickstarters, providing merchandise for the campaigns of games such as Broken Age and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.[5][6] After partnering with Toby Fox to create merchandise for Undertale,[7] the site experienced a higher number of sales, with a cofounder saying "I thought there was a glitch in Shopify... Undertale had become just an incredible phenomenon.”. This success allowed Fangamer to expand into acquiring licenses for other video game proprieties, going on to create merchandise for games such as Hollow Knight and Banjo-Kazooie.[1][8][9]

Games released

Title Original release year Developer(s) Genre(s) Platforms Release Date(s) Ref
Bugsnax 2020 Young Horses Adventure Playstation 4, Playstation 5 Q3 2021 [10]
Hollow Knight 2017 Team Cherry Action-adventure, Metroidvania Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, PC May 31, 2019 [11]
Later Alligator 2019 Pillow Fight Adventure Nintendo Switch Apr 16, 2021 [12]
Stardew Valley 2016 ConcernedApe Simulation, Role-playing Nintendo Switch, PC Nov 6, 2020 [13]
Undertale 2015 Toby Fox Role-playing PC, PS Vita, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One 2017-2021 [14][15][16][17]

References

  1. ^ a b c "How Fangamer Leveled Up Gaming Merch". EGM. 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  2. ^ "Feature: How Fangamer Changed The World Of Video Game Merchandise Forever". Nintendo Life. 2019-10-26. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  3. ^ "Fan-made Mother 3 Guide is All Kinds of Awesome". Nintendo Life. 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  4. ^ "Fan-made Mother 3 Handbook Freely Available To Read". Nintendo Life. 2009-07-13. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  5. ^ "Broken Age". Fangamer. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  6. ^ "Fangamer - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night". fulfillment.fangamer.com. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  7. ^ "Make Love, Not War: Five Years Of 'Undertale'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  8. ^ "Hollow Knight's European Physical Release Has Been Delayed". Nintendo Life. 2019-05-20. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  9. ^ "Fangamer's New Range Of Banjo-Kazooie Merch Is Tough To Resist". Nintendo Life. 2019-11-26. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  10. ^ "Bugsnax for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4". Fangamer. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  11. ^ "Hollow Knight is Finally Getting a Physical Release and Collector's Edition from Fangamer; Pre-Orders Now Open". Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  12. ^ "Later Alligator for Nintendo Switch™". Fangamer. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  13. ^ Marshall, Cass (2020-07-30). "This adorable physical copy of Stardew Valley comes with your own deed". Polygon. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  14. ^ "UNDERTALE Game Physical Edition". Fangamer. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  15. ^ "First Look at Undertale PS4 Theme, Closer Look at Physical Editions". PlayStation.Blog. 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  16. ^ "Pre-orders Open For Undertale Nintendo Switch Physical Copies". Siliconera. 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  17. ^ "Undertale Is Coming To Xbox Game Pass And Getting A Nifty Collector's Edition". Press Start. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
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