Video Game History Foundation: VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here’s what’s next.. “Our magazine library now spans 46 years of video game history, from 1981–2026. Major new additions since launch include hundreds of trade magazines, a historically significant newsletter, and publications for niche gaming communities. Altogether, these account for about 60 percent of the Video […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/30/video-game-history-foundation-vghf-digital-archive-passes-5000-magazines-heres-whats-next/#videogamehistoryfoundation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #videogamehistoryfoundation, aggregated by home.social.
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📬 PS5 ohne Blu-Ray-Disc: „Piraterie ist kein Diebstahl, sondern eine „moralische Verpflichtung“
#Gaming #BlurayDisc #DavidSzymanski #DeadDomain #FrankCifaldi #IronLung #Piraterie #VideoGameHistoryFoundation https://sc.tarnkappe.info/3ce04d -
Video Game History Foundation: Sonic, Rayman, and more in latest additions to GamePro CD collection. “This week, we added the next 100 CDs from our GamePro press CD collection to our digital archive! As we explained last year, we’ve been digitizing a massive collection of CDs from the art department at GamePro magazine. These discs contain the raw artwork and screenshots that game publishers […]
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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!
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Video Game History Foundation: Our first “expansion pack”! New materials in our development collections. “This week, we’ve updated two of our existing library collections: the Mark Flitman papers and the Andrew Nelson papers! We recently received packages from Mark and Andrew containing new materials from their collections that we missed the first time around, as well as a few items we […]
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The History of Game Player’s Magazines
The Video Game History Foundation has a breezy 3½ minute video about one of the less-remembered magazines of the NES-through-Playstation era, Game Player's, with the apostrophe-S at the end. But it wasn't just one magazine. Over ten years they put out magazines under thirteen different titles, and s
https://setsideb.com/the-history-of-game-players-magazines/
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The Defeating Games for Charity livestream is happening NOW, from Jan 23-25, raising money for the #VideoGameHistoryFoundation!
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Comment la NES a failli être vendue par Atari (et pourquoi ça a tout changé)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/nes-histoire-secrete-1985-atari-nintendo.html
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An unpublished #NES game finished by volunteers is receiving a physical release. 100% of profits go to benefit the #VideogameHistoryFoundation who made this possible.
https://www.iam8bit.com/products/xcavator-2025-nes-cartridge
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It's #GivingTuesday and if you care about #GameHistory, consider supporting the #VideogameHistoryFoundation's winter fundraising drive. I am proud to be a patreon supporter which has great benefits like a private discord server, but one-off donations are also very much appreciated! Check out this video with a recap of everything they did this year:
https://bsky.app/profile/gamehistoryorg.bsky.social/post/3m6z5tkjl7a2p
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‘This Guy Should Be Beaten To Death With Baseball Bats’
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/mlb-slugfest-commentary-cut
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‘This Guy Should Be Beaten To Death With Baseball Bats’
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/mlb-slugfest-commentary-cut
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"We launched the #NES 40 years ago today" was a fantastic panel at this year's Portland #RetroGaming expo, featuring three #Nintendo of America veterans and hosted by The #VideogameHistoryFoundation's Frank Cifaldi.
Check out the VOD here:
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The #VideoGameHistoryFoundation acquired the rights to one of the first ever video game magazines - "Computer Entertainer". They've now digitized the entire run and have made it avail under CC-license via their Digital Archive here:
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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/#Videogames #ClassicGames #SEGA #VGHF #VideoGameHistory #SonicTheHedgehog
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Time Extension: The VGHF Is Set To Dump 125 Mystery Prototype ROMs Live On Stream. “The creator of the Video Game History Foundation, Frank Cifaldi, has announced yesterday on social media that the 501(c)3 non-profit organization has recently come into possession of 125 mystery prototype ROMs, which are believed to originally be from Taito Japan. And, better yet, the non-profit will be doing […]
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#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
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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
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The Video Game History Foundation’s Online Library, A Wonder Of The Modern World, Is Now Open
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/video-game-history-foundation-library-magazines
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"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."
#news #DigitalPreservation #archiving #videogames #VideoGameHistory #VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF
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« The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) is making its digital library system available to the public for the first time next week »
#VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF #Gaming #Retrogaming #VideoGame #VideoGamePreservation
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Possibly the First US Commercial For a Nintendo Product
Generally it's considered that arcade Donkey Kong was the product that put Nintendo on the video game map, but Nintendo's Game & Watch line actually predates it by a year. They licensed it
https://setsideb.com/possibly-the-first-us-commercial-for-a-nintendo-product/
#niche #retro #advertising #Ball #ChrisKohler #commercial #GameWatch #history #mego #niche #nintendo #retro #TimeOut #TossUp #video #videogamehistoryfoundation #youtube -
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 articleAs 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/
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"You know, if you wanna learn about #Shakespeare, it's not like you have to go to a weird Discord to learn about how to do that. Why should it be the case for learning about #Miyamoto?"
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Eight years ago, I took this picture of my #Dreamcast and several games for #Castmas! We're still celebrating! Let's all get out and celebrate the Dreamcast today!
#Sega #classicgaming #classicgames #Videogames #videogamehistory #videogamehistoryfoundation #CelebrateCastmas #MerryCastmas
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https://theworldisending.neocities.org/capitalism-is-killing-video-games
I've updated my website to include Video Game related replacements. As much as i love gaming, the planet is more important.
#Nintendo #anticapitalism #anarchy #anarchism #Xbox #XBOX360Marketplace #playstation #steam #valve #excessivehashtags #wiiueshop #3dseshop #videogamehistory #videogamehistoryfoundation #videogamepreservation
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CW: 87% of Classic Games Gone & the Ethics of Emulation
With the recent report from the #VideoGameHistoryFoundation highlighting 87% of games from 1960 - 2009 are completely unavailable, it reaffirms my position on emulation. Without a video game library that can make these games easily accessible to the public, #emulation is the single best tool we have to preserving games (though in a perfect world we would have all relevant hardware maintained as well).
Due to inaccessible games and rising demand for emulation, we've seen a big boom in the emulation market. Fantastic little handhelds can be had without breaking the bank. This demand however, also creates an industry of selling hard drives full of ROMs, including Switch titles.
If you cannot reasonably obtain a copy of a game, whether it be due to availability or unobtainable prices, I think piracy is an option. Ideally someone buys their games and dumps them. Individuals selling solely pirated ROMs should not be trusted or promoted. Please do not buy these
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This can't be great news.
Video Game History Foundation estimates 87 percent of "classic" games now unavailable https://www.eurogamer.net/video-game-history-foundation-estimates-87-percent-of-classic-games-now-unavailable
#VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VideoGamePreservation #GamingNews
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📬 Retro-Spiele: Eine düstere Zukunft ohne illegale Raubkopien?
#Gaming #EntertainmentSoftwareAssociation #KelseyLewin #Kotaku #Raubkopien #RetroGame #VGHF #VideoGameHistoryFoundation #Videospiele #YakuzaSpiel https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/gaming/retro-spiele-eine-duestere-zukunft-ohne-illegale-raubkopien-278396.html -
87% of classic games are out of print. That’s a problem for gaming history. - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson)
Anyone with a passing interest... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1952784 #videogamehistoryfoundation #videogamepreservation #gaming
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Ars Technica: 87% of classic games are out of print. That’s a problem for gaming history. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1952784 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #videogamehistoryfoundation #videogamepreservation #Gaming
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Kotaku: An Alarming 87 Percent Of Retro Games Are Being Lost To Time https://kotaku.com/classic-games-history-foundation-preservation-yakuza-1850623857 #gaming #tech #kotaku #videogamehistoryfoundation #technologyinternet #nintendoswitch #nintendoeshop #playstation2 #johncarmack #retrogaming #kelseylewin #nintendo3ds #nostalgia #videogame #nintendo #mario #libby #wiiu #wii