CAAD fanzine
The CAAD fanzine, also called simply CAAD, is a Spanish fanzine (now a magazine) edited by the Club de Aventuras AD and directed by Juan José Muñoz Falcó. The first Spanish language fanzine about adventure games, it was made in Valencia and distributed by mail to all Spain and some South-American countries. Primarily focused on conversational adventures (IF), the fanzine version was published between issue #0 in April 1989 and #48 in December 2000. In that time, 38 issues were published in paper edition and ten more in PDF only edition.
CAAD was published continuously from issue #0 to #35 (in batches -- "suscripciones" -- of three issues each), alongside six special issues ("CAAD Extra") labeled #1 to #6 (each accompanying one subscription). When the publication resumed after a hiatus, the first new issue was numbered #42. This jump in numbering occurred because the earlier special issues (#1–#6) had retroactively been assigned as issues #36–#41. The series was discontinued again after issue #48.
Issue #50, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first issue, appeared in May 2019. (Number #49 was deliberately skipped, to make issue #50 the 50th issue -- see page 6 of that issue for the publisher's full rationale.) Since May 2020 with issue 51, the CAAD, as a magazine, is being published again, both as a free download PDF and in paper.
Contents
The CAAD fanzine had articles about adventure games and also on other adventure related topics: graphic adventures, gamebooks, mail games, role-playing games and Strategic games. It had a Q&A section and an adventure "bag" (Bolsa de aventuras) from which homegrown adventures were distributed, mainly made with PAWS.
Links
- All CAAD issues in PDF format
- Transcriptions of some issues, at wiki.caad.club
- PDF issues at the IF Archive
- Announcement of CAAD creation in Microhobby #171 (June 1988, p23)
- Announcement of CAAD launch in Microhobby #181 (November 1988, p5)
