Video Game History Foundation

Our latest VGHH podcast is 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, and multiple new collections, there's lots to discuss: gamehistory.org/episode-136-ha…

This Ultima VII magazine ad from the VGHF Library doesn't hold back on the 'Crossing the Alps with Hannibal's elephants vs. using a PC with a mouse' comparisons...

Adrift at sea with only an Atari joystick for company? This surreal VGHF Library print ad - for Activision's 1982 Astro Blaster-esque shooter Megamania for the Atari 2600 - suggests just such a thing...

Given out at Summer Game Fest 2025 and via mail-in, and now added to the VGHF Library, this half-sized, 8 page promo for Capcom's Onimusha 2 remaster is designed to look like a classic '90s magazine.

3D fighting game Zero Divide was a PlayStation 1 launch title in North America, and thus got the following, far too 'radical' U.S. print ad...

New post for our Patreon members: Subscribers get first look at what we're working on this month! patreon.com/posts/whats-ne…

Metal Saga was the first game in the Metal Max saga to make it to the U.S., and it did it in style with this 2006 print ad for the PS2 game. (What a good boy!)

Veteran game designer and author Lawrence Schick (Smurf Rescue, Tarzan) shares stories from his early 80s work with the ColecoVision, Atari 2600, and Intellivision in the latest Video Game History Hour podcast: gamehistory.org/episode-135-ba…

New to our collection: We received issues of the British magazine 3DO Magazine. Looks like this was the only dedicated 3DO magazine published in Europe. So understandably, they got a lot of interviews with execs at 3DO's UK offices (cos who else wanted to talk about 3DO Europe?)

Today is "National Video Game Day" because 34 years ago, a guy named David Earle decided it should be Video Games Day. That's it, that's the holiday Here's a post we wrote about it back in 2017: gamehistory.org/why-is-today-n…

Videogame Advisor (1995–1997) covered the launch of the 3D generation of consoles. And it had charts! In fall 1996, Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 dominated console game sales, as the only two available N64 games post-launch: archive.gamehistory.org/item/1dbda557-… (p.78)

Silly Sunday posts: thanks to a generous/foolish donation to the VGHF, you can learn about the fitness routine of Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick, in this newly scanned magazine from 2008! archive.gamehistory.org/item/d89c8d67-…

VGHF went back and rescanned the early issues of Game Developer magazine to make sure we captured all the early ads for development tools that you never saw anywhere else. For example: This absolutely wild ad for a code editing tool called MULTI-EDIT: archive.gamehistory.org/item/60eb40ac-…

In the latest Video Game History Hour, Host Phil Salvador and guest host Colleen Barrett chat with David Carter, Video Game Archivist and Comic Librarian at University of Michigan Library Computer and Video Game Archive: gamehistory.org/episode-134-pr…

We're still looking through newly scanned issues of Games Business for our Trade Magazine Week. There's some trade-only unique ads in here that are... uh... hmm: archive.gamehistory.org/item/263d965e-… (Page 26.)

One more article from VGHF's scans of Games Business... in July 1999, Babbage's launched a new video game delivery website called [squints] Game...stop? That'll never work: archive.gamehistory.org/item/d8cde6cd-… (Page. 1)

#TradeMagWeek BONUS: 📰❗ In 2006, Kojima Productions and Konami made a parody of E3 Show Daily called "M4 Show Maybe" to promote Metal Gear Solid 4. We've scanned it and added it to our digital library too! archive.gamehistory.org/item/4f5925c4-…

#TradeMagWeek DAY 2: E3 Show Daily! Did you know E3 had its own daily magazine? E3 Show Daily was handed out for free at the Electronic Entertainment Expo and featured a mix of breaking news and promotional content. Our scanned collection in progress: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/ae5ac29…

📰 It's TRADE MAGAZINE WEEK 📰 💥 NEARLY 400 video game industry trade magazines, full-text searchable by the public 💥 🎙️ NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN interviews with Miyamoto, Meier, and more 🎙️ ☠️ NOT for the FAINT-OF-HEART historian ☠️ 🚨 ONLY at archive.gamehistory.org 🚨

New (bonus!) Video Game History Foundation digital library collection: we've added a small set of original artwork by Kirk Henderson from ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/38a31ed…