It’s another quarterly update! Host Robin Kunimune talks with Frank Cifaldi and Phil Salvador about our recent work. From Chicago travel to launching Computer Entertainer, from our new Booth-in-a-Box to 4,000 magazines archived, from NES’s 40th to building Lego; come find out just how many new collections we’ve added in the last few months. You…| Video Game History Foundation
Phil Salvador interviews Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) School of Design Games Program in Australia, about her research on femininity in gaming, particularly in girls’ lifestyle magazines. Dr. Harkin discusses her journey from media studies to focusing on feminine games. She highlights her findings on the lack of… The post Episode 141: Hidden Advertising of Feminine Games appeared first on Video Game History Foundation.| Video Game History Foundation
Dig into the early production history of Activision in this new digital collection from former Activision vice president William Volk. The post Discovering early Activision history in the William Volk papers appeared first on Video Game History Foundation.| Video Game History Foundation
Our new library collection celebrates the origins of the community-run Music and Gaming Festival.| Video Game History Foundation
Host Frank Cifaldi is joined by documentarian, historian, hacker, and all around cool guy SynaMax to talk about their documentary Resurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archaeology Documentary. The 1983 top-down space shooter arcade game’s unique 49-way joystick allowed players to pilot their spaceship to prevent a giant skull, Sinistar, from forming. SynaMax interviewed developers, restored cut content,…| Video Game History Foundation
We’re joined by pioneer video game historian Leonard Herman, author and publisher of several video game history books including the first comprehensive book chronicling the history of the videogame industry, Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Home Videogames, and its subsequent series. We touch on Leonard’s early career, the challenges of self-publishing, and the evolution…| Video Game History Foundation
Host Phil Salvador is joined by Derek Alexander, of the YouTube channel Stop Skeletons From Fighting, and Zarithya, of the YouTube channel Zarithya, to talk about the fan-restored 16-player mode for the 1991 Game Boy game Faceball 2000 as laid out in My 2 Year Journey to Solve the 30-Year Myth of Faceball 2000 |… The post Episode 138: Playing Faceball 2000 With 15 of Your Closest Friends appeared first on Video Game History Foundation.| Video Game History Foundation
The magazine, which ran from 1982–1990, has been released into the Creative Commons for anyone to use.| Video Game History Foundation
Frank Cifaldi is joined by Marylou Badeaux to discuss the history of the vitally important Computer Entertainer, also known as The Video Game Update: a monthly newsletter which covered video game availability information and reviews in the 1980’s. Co-created with Marylou’s sister Celeste Dolan, this publication has helped provide historians with game information found from… The post Episode 137: Computer Entertainer appeared first on Video Game History Foundation.| Video Game History Foundation
It’s time for a little review of what we’ve been up to, so far, this year. With the official launch of our digital library archive, livestreams of game magazine unboxing and EPROM dumping, the newest collections of Craig Stitt and Kirk Henderson, a Trade Magazine Week special event, and teasing some special new acquisitions we…| Video Game History Foundation
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Our new study shows the dire state of the classic game market. We broke down what that means.| Video Game History Foundation
New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable| Video Game History Foundation
How a 17-year-old in the UK set the course for Nintendo's future.| Video Game History Foundation
