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Video Game History Foundation: Today, we’re introducing a new version of our digital archive platform. This update improves the user experience based on your feedback!

https://gamehistory.org/archive-portal-update-2026/

#VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF

The Video Game History Foundation Examines a Famicom Punch-Out Prototype
Frank Cifaldi presents a look at a mysterious prototype of NES Punch-Out!! that's turned up. It's only got four working boxers, with Bald Bull missing key moves, but it also has quite a few working features, including the password system. It's completely sile
https://setsideb.com/the-video-game-history-foundation-examines-a-famicom-punch-out-prototype/
#retro #frankcifaldi #nintendo #prototype #punchout #retro #vghf

« The Untold Story of the #Nintendo Entertainment System » by The Video Games History Foundation for the 40th birthday :

« 15 years in the making ! The #VGHF presents the unlikely story of how the #NES was born. »

› https://youtu.be/uJvpRGibFhg

#Gaming #RetroGaming #VideoGames #Atari

Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More)

https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/

#HackerNews #SegaChannel #VGHF #ROMs #SegaHistory #GamingNews #RetroGaming

Vamos à nossa seleção de links divertidos da semana…

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/16/vamos-a-nossa-selecao-de-links-divertidos-da-semana/

#MundoRetro #acervo #CMLK #comunicao #Datassette #DECtape #DennisRitchie #fita #protocolo #redes #Spartan #UNIX #VGHF #Videogames

Vamos à nossa seleção de links divertidos da semana…

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/16/vamos-a-nossa-selecao-de-links-divertidos-da-semana/

#MundoRetro #acervo #CMLK #comunicao #Datassette #DECtape #DennisRitchie #fita #protocolo #redes #Spartan #UNIX #VGHF #Videogames

Vamos à nossa seleção de links divertidos da semana…

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/16/vamos-a-nossa-selecao-de-links-divertidos-da-semana/

#MundoRetro #acervo #CMLK #comunicao #Datassette #DECtape #DennisRitchie #fita #protocolo #redes #Spartan #UNIX #VGHF #Videogames

Vamos à nossa seleção de links divertidos da semana…

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/16/vamos-a-nossa-selecao-de-links-divertidos-da-semana/

#MundoRetro #acervo #CMLK #comunicao #Datassette #DECtape #DennisRitchie #fita #protocolo #redes #Spartan #UNIX #VGHF #Videogames

Vamos à nossa seleção de links divertidos da semana…

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/16/vamos-a-nossa-selecao-de-links-divertidos-da-semana/

#MundoRetro #acervo #CMLK #comunicao #Datassette #DECtape #DennisRitchie #fita #protocolo #redes #Spartan #UNIX #VGHF #Videogames

#VGHF and friends have recovered around 144 lost #Sega Channel ROMs!

https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/

#RetroGaming #ROMs #SegaGenesis #MegaDrive #90s

‘This Guy Should Be Beaten To Death With Baseball Bats’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/mlb-slugfest-commentary-cut

Many people know of the SNES version of SimCity, but there was actually a version made for the NES that was unreleased, and The Video Game History Foundation published a few minutes of gameplay of the prototype for it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0q93b_allY.

It looks similar to other versions of SimCity we know. The music is fairly repetitive (that 8-bit limitation has a lot to do with that, I'm sure) but the video here shows a lot of the gameplay features, including the monster destroying the city. The music of the short cutscenes with the animated characters (saying you have too much crime, etc) really have a kinda Mario sound to them, in my opinion.

This was a cool watch for SimCity fanatics like myself. 😂

#SimCity #simulation #SimGames #NES #Nintendo #GameHistory #gaming #80s #80sGames #prototypes #GamePrototypes #TheVideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF #RetroGames #RetroGaming #VideoGameHistory

The #VideoGameHistoryFoundation has released the Craig Stitt papers, with lots of art from the portfolio of an artist who worked on #Sonic, #Spyro, #RatchetAndClank, and more. There's a video interview with him as well.
https://gamehistory.org/introducing-the-craig-stitt-papers/

https://youtu.be/QAN6AD2_fs0

#Videogames #ClassicGames #SEGA #VGHF #VideoGameHistory #SonicTheHedgehog

#Nintendo en #AméricaLatina en la década de los 90 - #piratería y #Famicom

https://picandocodigo.net/2025/nintendo-america-latina-90s-pirateria-famicom/

¡Excelente y extenso artículo! ¡Lectura obligada! :alertglitch:

#Latinoamérica #TheVideoGameHistoryFoundation #VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF #Videojuegos #FamilyGame #FamilyComputer #USTR #ArterAndHadden #ArterHadden #Electrolab #Argentina #NES #NTDEC #Uruguay #China #Taiwán #Venezuela #Paraguay #Panamá #Brasil #Chile #México #España #ProjectReality

Online-Archiv der VGHF geöffnet

Ende Januar 2025 gab die Video Game History Foundation, Inc. (VGHF) bekannt, ihre Datenbank öffentlich zugänglich zu machen. Das ist ein großer Schritt für die Erhaltung von Computer- und Videospielkultur.

https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/online-archiv-der-vghf-geoeffnet/

#Bibliothek #Datenbank #GameStudies #Geschichte #History #Library #Recherche #VGHF #Videospielgeschichte

And it's officially live.

"The Video Game History Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. This library is our way of sharing our collections of rare video game history materials."

https://library.gamehistory.org/

#DigitalPreservation #archiving #videogames #VideoGameHistory #VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF

🎮 The VGHF Library opens in early access 🎮

«Our digital library platform launches with access to a curated selection of materials from our library, including:

- Never-before-seen game development materials.
- Artwork, press kits, and promotional materials from iconic video games.
- Over 1500 full-text searchable out-of-print video game magazines—including game industry trade magazines rarely available to the public.»

#Videogames #Magazines #VGHF

https://gamehistory.org/vghf-library-launch/

Video Game History Foundation opens free online access to 1,500 classic game mags, 30K historic files

Website: https://library.gamehistory.org/

#DigiPres DigitalPreservation #GameDev #Nintendo #Sega #Magazine #Retro #RetroGaming #Archive #VGHF #VideogameHistory

Des scans sympa de matériel promotionnel #Nintendo of America Inc. 1989

#VGHF

🥁
Amoureux de #JeuxVidéos et de #RetroGaming la "Video Game History Foundation" ouvre la porte de leurs archives au public.
👇

"La #VGHF est une fondation à but non lucratif fondée par Frank Cifaldi. L'objectif principal de la fondation est l'archivage, la préservation et la diffusion des médias historiques liés aux jeux vidéo.

#VGHF

📚 Bibliothèque:
https://library.gamehistory.org/

🌐 SIte Web:
https://gamehistory.org/vghf-library-launch/

:wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Game_History_Foundation

:youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tysm_Wf60Q

The Video Game History Foundation opened up digital access to a large portion of its massive archives today, offering access to information from the past 50 years.

"Today's launch of the VGHF Library comprises more than 30,000 indexed and curated files, including high-quality artwork, promotional material, and searchable full-text archives - over 1,500 video game magazine issues. This initial dump of digital materials also contains never-before-seen game development and production archival material stored by the VGHF, such as over 100 hours of raw production files from the creation of the Myst series or Sonic the Hedgehog concept art and design files contributed by artist Tom Payne."

https://library.gamehistory.org

More about it here at Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/vghf-opens-free-online-access-to-1500-classic-game-mags-30k-historic-files

#history #gaming #GameHistory #VideoGames #RetroGaming #art #ConceptArt #GameArt #VGHF

Already using https://archive.gamehistory.org/ to dig up stuff on locative games. So far, I've found a half-page marketing thing on The Shroud, a page on how Pokemon Go was changing laws, and an acknowledgement that Botfighters existed. Still plenty of stuff to search for.

#VGHF

The Video Game History Foundation (#VGHF) is making its digital library system available to the public for the first time next week.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-video-game-history-foundation-makes-its-digital-library-available-to-the-public-next-week/

"The Video Game History Foundation announced it will be launching its digital library platform later this month with "never-before-seen game development materials", as well as "artwork, press kits, and promo materials from iconic video games". The library will also allow readers to access 1,500 out-of-print videogame magazines stretching back to the early 1980s.

The magazine library will be fully text searchable, organisable by chronology, and allow users to filter mags by region, platform, publisher, and more."

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-video-game-history-foundation-launches-its-digital-library-later-this-month-providing-access-to-over-1-500-videogame-magazines-and-never-before-seen-game-development-materials/

#news #DigitalPreservation #archiving #videogames #VideoGameHistory #VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF

« The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) is making its digital library system available to the public for the first time next week »

› https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-video-game-history-foundation-makes-its-digital-library-available-to-the-public-next-week/

#VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF #Gaming #Retrogaming #VideoGame #VideoGamePreservation

Coleco’s Tarzan for the Atari VCS/2600 Found After 40 Years
The lost Atari 2600 version of Coleco's Tarzan game, from the VGHF article

As reported in a post at the excellent Video Game History Foundation, a copy of the unreleased Atari port of the Colecovision Tarzan game has been found, bought from a form
https://setsideb.com/colecos-tarzan-for-the-atari-vcs-2600-found-after-40-years/
#retro #2600 #atari #coleco #jwda #lostmedia #retro #tarzan #vcs #vghf #videogamehistoryfoundation

Coleco’s Tarzan for the Atari VCS/2600 Found After 40 Years
The lost Atari 2600 version of Coleco's Tarzan game, from the VGHF article

As reported in a post at the excellent Video Game History Foundation, a copy of the unreleased Atari port of the Colecovision Tarzan game has been found, bought from a form
https://setsideb.com/colecos-tarzan-for-the-atari-vcs-2600-found-after-40-years/
#retro #2600 #atari #coleco #jwda #lostmedia #retro #tarzan #vcs #vghf #videogamehistoryfoundation

Coleco’s Tarzan for the Atari VCS/2600 Found After 40 Years
The lost Atari 2600 version of Coleco's Tarzan game, from the VGHF article

As reported in a post at the excellent Video Game History Foundation, a copy of the unreleased Atari port of the Colecovision Tarzan game has been found, bought from a form
https://setsideb.com/colecos-tarzan-for-the-atari-vcs-2600-found-after-40-years/
#retro #2600 #atari #coleco #jwda #lostmedia #retro #tarzan #vcs #vghf #videogamehistoryfoundation

Coleco’s Tarzan for the Atari VCS/2600 Found After 40 Years
The lost Atari 2600 version of Coleco's Tarzan game, from the VGHF article

As reported in a post at the excellent Video Game History Foundation, a copy of the unreleased Atari port of the Colecovision Tarzan game has been found, bought from a form
https://setsideb.com/colecos-tarzan-for-the-atari-vcs-2600-found-after-40-years/
#retro #2600 #atari #coleco #jwda #lostmedia #retro #tarzan #vcs #vghf #videogamehistoryfoundation

Coleco’s Tarzan for the Atari VCS/2600 Found After 40 Years
The lost Atari 2600 version of Coleco's Tarzan game, from the VGHF article

As reported in a post at the excellent Video Game History Foundation, a copy of the unreleased Atari port of the Colecovision Tarzan game has been found, bought from a form
https://setsideb.com/colecos-tarzan-for-the-atari-vcs-2600-found-after-40-years/
#retro #2600 #atari #coleco #jwda #lostmedia #retro #tarzan #vcs #vghf #videogamehistoryfoundation

Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? - Enlarge / The Q*Bert's so bright, I gotta wear shades. (credit: Aurich ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2020063 #preservation #copyright #hearing #history #gaming #dmca #lega #vghf #esa

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