Video Game History Foundation
@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Join us in about an hour for our live chat premiere!
Join us tonight at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern for a YouTube Premiere of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social's impassioned, energetic talk about the state of video game preservation. This was previously for GDC attendees only, but has been unlocked for all. We'll be in chat! youtu.be/_00AjQNjgDk?...
Preserving Game History: It's Just Us
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December 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Join us in about an hour for our live chat premiere!
Join us tonight at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern for a YouTube Premiere of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social's impassioned, energetic talk about the state of video game preservation. This was previously for GDC attendees only, but has been unlocked for all. We'll be in chat! youtu.be/_00AjQNjgDk?...
Preserving Game History: It's Just Us
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Join us tonight at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern for a YouTube Premiere of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social's impassioned, energetic talk about the state of video game preservation. This was previously for GDC attendees only, but has been unlocked for all. We'll be in chat! youtu.be/_00AjQNjgDk?...
A treat for helping us reach the goal for our annual fundraiser:
We've redigitized the MaxiVision Power Video Challenge, an infomercial for an unlicensed NES multicart, featuring WWF superstars in the WORLD GAME FEDERATION
Read more: gamehistory.org/maxivision-p...
We've redigitized the MaxiVision Power Video Challenge, an infomercial for an unlicensed NES multicart, featuring WWF superstars in the WORLD GAME FEDERATION
Read more: gamehistory.org/maxivision-p...
MaxiVision Power Video Challenge (VHS Domesday capture)
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December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A treat for helping us reach the goal for our annual fundraiser:
We've redigitized the MaxiVision Power Video Challenge, an infomercial for an unlicensed NES multicart, featuring WWF superstars in the WORLD GAME FEDERATION
Read more: gamehistory.org/maxivision-p...
We've redigitized the MaxiVision Power Video Challenge, an infomercial for an unlicensed NES multicart, featuring WWF superstars in the WORLD GAME FEDERATION
Read more: gamehistory.org/maxivision-p...
Since we've rocketed past our winter fundraiser goal, how about a little treat to celebrate?
Give us just a second here...
Give us just a second here...
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Since we've rocketed past our winter fundraiser goal, how about a little treat to celebrate?
Give us just a second here...
Give us just a second here...
We did it! Thanks to your generosity, we smashed through our minimum goal in just two days, meaning *VGHF is officially funded for 2026*! Thank you all so much.
We could always use more, so the campaign is still open through the end of the year! Online events start next week! gamehistory.org/donate
We could always use more, so the campaign is still open through the end of the year! Online events start next week! gamehistory.org/donate
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We did it! Thanks to your generosity, we smashed through our minimum goal in just two days, meaning *VGHF is officially funded for 2026*! Thank you all so much.
We could always use more, so the campaign is still open through the end of the year! Online events start next week! gamehistory.org/donate
We could always use more, so the campaign is still open through the end of the year! Online events start next week! gamehistory.org/donate
We are OVER $25K ON DAY TWO, with just over $4k left to hit our minimum goal for 2026! You're all incredible, thanks for the support and the shares!
Finishing the meter isn't a guarantee though, so if you were thinking of giving but waiting, help us keep this momentum going! gamehistory.org/donate
Finishing the meter isn't a guarantee though, so if you were thinking of giving but waiting, help us keep this momentum going! gamehistory.org/donate
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We are OVER $25K ON DAY TWO, with just over $4k left to hit our minimum goal for 2026! You're all incredible, thanks for the support and the shares!
Finishing the meter isn't a guarantee though, so if you were thinking of giving but waiting, help us keep this momentum going! gamehistory.org/donate
Finishing the meter isn't a guarantee though, so if you were thinking of giving but waiting, help us keep this momentum going! gamehistory.org/donate
🎉We made it halfway in less than 8 hours! Thank you so so much for joining us in keeping video game history alive. We've still got a ways to go but getting this far on day one is a huge relief. Still plenty of time to help! gamehistory.org/donate
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
🎉We made it halfway in less than 8 hours! Thank you so so much for joining us in keeping video game history alive. We've still got a ways to go but getting this far on day one is a huge relief. Still plenty of time to help! gamehistory.org/donate
Did you know that your donations today are DOUBLED?
That means if we raise another $424, it'll magically become $848, which will put us HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL on day one!
That means if we raise another $424, it'll magically become $848, which will put us HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL on day one!
December 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Did you know that your donations today are DOUBLED?
That means if we raise another $424, it'll magically become $848, which will put us HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL on day one!
That means if we raise another $424, it'll magically become $848, which will put us HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL on day one!
🥳 We've smaaaaashed through 33% of our annual fundraising goal in less than four hours! If we reach our goal on day one we'll literally kick Phil out of the office and make him go home early to relax.
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🥳 We've smaaaaashed through 33% of our annual fundraising goal in less than four hours! If we reach our goal on day one we'll literally kick Phil out of the office and make him go home early to relax.
It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate
VGHF's latest Video Game History Hour podcast features audio of our PRGE panel on the 40th anniversary of the NES launch, ft. Gail Tilden, Marketing; Bruce Lowery, Sales; and Lance Barr, Product Design: https://gamehistory.org/episode-145-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-nes-a-prge-panel/
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
VGHF's latest Video Game History Hour podcast features audio of our PRGE panel on the 40th anniversary of the NES launch, ft. Gail Tilden, Marketing; Bruce Lowery, Sales; and Lance Barr, Product Design: https://gamehistory.org/episode-145-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-nes-a-prge-panel/
Original B&W concept / promo art from Twisted Metal 3? We've got that too in the GamePro art CD archives: https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/97088652-b416-4c1f-9928-e5dba5862c4d
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Original B&W concept / promo art from Twisted Metal 3? We've got that too in the GamePro art CD archives: https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/97088652-b416-4c1f-9928-e5dba5862c4d
The Worlds Of Ultima spinoffs took the classic fantasy RPG in some different directions - and The Savage Empire (1990, based on the Ultima VI engine) went full Conan Doyle 'Lost World'.
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Worlds Of Ultima spinoffs took the classic fantasy RPG in some different directions - and The Savage Empire (1990, based on the Ultima VI engine) went full Conan Doyle 'Lost World'.
Also from the newly archived VGHF GamePro press CDs, this EA/Square collab disc - https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/236fb114-867f-4e78-ab60-e05c230ad10d - includes hi-res Parasite Eve promo images.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Also from the newly archived VGHF GamePro press CDs, this EA/Square collab disc - https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/236fb114-867f-4e78-ab60-e05c230ad10d - includes hi-res Parasite Eve promo images.
Over on Patreon, supporters get a preview of what we have coming in December! We're wrapping up the year with some fun content and a couple surprises
Roadmap for the rest of 2025 (with some big teases!) | The Video Game History Foundation
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November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Over on Patreon, supporters get a preview of what we have coming in December! We're wrapping up the year with some fun content and a couple surprises
This Secret Of Monkey Island ad from 1991 includes details of the Monkey Island Treasure Hunt. What's that? Certain 3M diskette boxes (and a write-in offer) included a demo you could complete to win a cruise (or a sound card!)
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This Secret Of Monkey Island ad from 1991 includes details of the Monkey Island Treasure Hunt. What's that? Certain 3M diskette boxes (and a write-in offer) included a demo you could complete to win a cruise (or a sound card!)
Thanks to our GamePro art CD archiving (https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2), VGHF is preserving hi-res versions of, uh, Bruce Willis being a shoot-y CG guy in Neversoft & Activision's Apocalypse.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thanks to our GamePro art CD archiving (https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2), VGHF is preserving hi-res versions of, uh, Bruce Willis being a shoot-y CG guy in Neversoft & Activision's Apocalypse.
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Who remembers Eye Of The Beholder? This classic Westwood developed D&D-licensed first person dungeon crawler RPG debuted in 1991.
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Who remembers Eye Of The Beholder? This classic Westwood developed D&D-licensed first person dungeon crawler RPG debuted in 1991.
New public post on our Patreon:
We THINK we have every issue of PCGames magazine. How do we know that other issues *don't* exist? Well, it's tricky...
We THINK we have every issue of PCGames magazine. How do we know that other issues *don't* exist? Well, it's tricky...
We have every issue of PCGames... we think. | The Video Game History Foundation
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New public post on our Patreon:
We THINK we have every issue of PCGames magazine. How do we know that other issues *don't* exist? Well, it's tricky...
We THINK we have every issue of PCGames magazine. How do we know that other issues *don't* exist? Well, it's tricky...
Remember when game companies used magazines to help hire? Back in 2008, this ad in Game Developer magazine suggested you apply to work at a (pre-Fortnite, post-Unreal) Epic Games: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/bc1cf67b-d52f-4d3b-bd76-5d454ea2e3af
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Remember when game companies used magazines to help hire? Back in 2008, this ad in Game Developer magazine suggested you apply to work at a (pre-Fortnite, post-Unreal) Epic Games: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/bc1cf67b-d52f-4d3b-bd76-5d454ea2e3af
What's that? Some nice Rival Schools (Capcom fighting game) character art from a 1998 GamePro magazine backup? Don't mind if we do! https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/2a227067-4606-4dd6-9b94-f865e0fc33ed?sortField=title&sortDir=asc&showUncatalogedFiles=true
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
What's that? Some nice Rival Schools (Capcom fighting game) character art from a 1998 GamePro magazine backup? Don't mind if we do! https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/2a227067-4606-4dd6-9b94-f865e0fc33ed?sortField=title&sortDir=asc&showUncatalogedFiles=true
More art gems from our expanded GamePro press CD collection - https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2 - as picked by Deeb on BSky - can you identify all 4?
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
More art gems from our expanded GamePro press CD collection - https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2 - as picked by Deeb on BSky - can you identify all 4?
Digital Eclipse just released new DLC for Atari 50, covering Namco ports for Atari platforms. And... hey, what's this?
That's Computer Entertainer, the game magazine we released into the Creative Commons this summer! It's already being used in commercial game history projects
That's Computer Entertainer, the game magazine we released into the Creative Commons this summer! It's already being used in commercial game history projects
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Digital Eclipse just released new DLC for Atari 50, covering Namco ports for Atari platforms. And... hey, what's this?
That's Computer Entertainer, the game magazine we released into the Creative Commons this summer! It's already being used in commercial game history projects
That's Computer Entertainer, the game magazine we released into the Creative Commons this summer! It's already being used in commercial game history projects
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flipping through my vghf random retro magazine for the month (gamepro sept '95) and wow!!! the legendary!!! first time i've ever seen it in the wild... the card has Some kind of unidentifiable smell but it has faded with time
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
flipping through my vghf random retro magazine for the month (gamepro sept '95) and wow!!! the legendary!!! first time i've ever seen it in the wild... the card has Some kind of unidentifiable smell but it has faded with time