mods are asleep, post 600dpi Mr. Bones box art

This week, we finally tracked down the last issue of Game Players that we were missing! We now have physical copies of all 200+ issues from the entire run, including all of its spinoffs. Phew!

We've passed 4000 magazines in our digital library! Every issue is cataloged and text-searchable, so it's easier than ever to do historical research with game magazines archive.gamehistory.org/folder/9a193... Here's a few recent highlights... 🧵

Video Game History Hour's Frank Cifaldi is joined by documentarian, historian, hacker, and all around cool guy @synamax.bsky.social to talk about their documentary Resurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archaeology Documentary in the latest VGHH podcast: gamehistory.org/episode-140-...

Spaceship attack! This foreboding early '80s Activision back page ad is for two Intellivision games, The Dreadnaught Factor and Beamrider.

Panzer Dragoon "It's a really cool game." ―Nobody in particular

New addition to our digital library... the complete run of Imagine Town Magazine, a promo publication from Ubisoft to promote their line of games for girls We believe this is the first (and hopefully not last) mention of Keke Palmer in our collection archive.gamehistory.org/folder/61871...

We received a new issue of Silicon, a mini-magazine that was given away for free at game stores. It's hard to find nowadays because it was very recyclable This issue has a rare US cover story on Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons. Or as it's described here, "Final Fantasy with farming equipment"

Great get from this month's @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Vintage Magazine subscription! You can get one for October and support their mission at the same time! the-video-game-history-foundation.myshopify.com/products/bli...

Digging into our digital archive today... We have a flyer for Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set, "the first software toy," which paved the way for future toy-games like SimCity archive.gamehistory.org/item/858a62d...

Lord British does what now? (Computer Gaming World's July 1988 issue, thanks so much.)

We're down to just one missing issue of Sendai's P.S.X. magazine, and it's this one. Anyone out there possibly have this stashed away?

Yeah it's 3DO, it's the best one. The hell is a PlayStation

Magazine from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social arrived! A super awesome issue from around 96 talking a lot about E3 that year and the N64. Super interesting discussions had about how devs weren’t happy about cartridges, how it seemed Nintendo wouldn’t make it etc. A great issue!

My latest random retro game magazine from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is sooo good! The lid sticker is still in there.

How cool is this cover? Nintendo Power Issue 51 from 1993! This month's "blind box" from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Okay... one teaser

Uh... our vintage mag 'blind box' - the-video-game-history-foundation.myshopify.com/collections/... - comes up Milhouse again?

Game history researchers are going to have a field day with this collection, especially if they're interested in hardware and game production circa 1989–1994

Our exclusive review of Silksong archive.gamehistory.org/item/a3016f2... p.137

In the latest Video Game HIstory Hour podcast, we're joined by pioneer game historian Leonard Herman, author of the first comprehensive book chronicling the history of the videogame industry, Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Home Videogames, and its subsequent series: gamehistory.org/episode-139-...

Thank you so much! We're a tiny organization, and this goes a long way for us. Every dollar helps us buy equipment, acquire and digitize collections, go to events, and make this whole "game history charity" thing work

We're closing out PAX West 2025! Our founder Frank Cifaldi is speaking at 3:30pm Pacific about what we do at VGHF and what we've been up to lately Streaming on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/pax

Our table at PAX has moved! We're on Summit level 4 outside the Nintendo Power Museum. Say hello!

@frankcifaldi.bsky.social's panel at PAX West about the launch of the NES (feat. special guest @thejenna.bsky.social) is starting! Watch along on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/pax

Hey! At 2:30 Pacific come watch my PAX panel live on Twitch. I'm going to teach you about the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System 40 years ago, and I promise you'll learn something new. Blue Dragon Theater if you're here, streaming you're not at twitch.tv/pax

Hey folks in the Pacific Northwest: We're going to PAX West 2025 this weekend! We've got two panels and an exhibitor table - more info here: www.patreon.com/posts/were-h...

On Patreon today, our members get a deep dive on how we bulk process files from video game press CDs! Unfortunately, it involves using a 20-year-old version of QuickTime.

Which games won Computer Entertainer magazine's '1986 awards of excellence'? Titles like Balance Of Power, The Pawn, Super Mario Bros (who?), and even Alter Ego as 'most innovative program': archive.gamehistory.org/item/f324dbc...

I guest host this episode of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast to talk with the co-founder of Computer Entertainer to learn the inside story behind this magazine run by two sisters that has become one of the most important resources for video game historians. gamehistory.org/episode-137-...

How recent is "history"? How about... three days ago? @danamrich.bsky.social brought us a few issues of Gamescom Daily 2025, the official event magazine for Gamescom, which we're adding to our physical library

This week on the Video Game History Hour, it's an episode about digital archaeology! We went deep with @stopskeletons.bsky.social and @zarithya.online about how they restored the long-lost 16-player mode from Faceball 2000 for the Game Boy, and how fan restoration is its own kind of preservation.

When mom brings home chicken nuggets

Just for you, our followers: some high-resolution Gex we got off the press CD we just digitized

The #bubsy-litterbox channel in VGHF's Patreon member Discord is lit right now 🔥

Who were the biggest U.S. PC game publishers back in June 2000? According to these VGHF-scanned charts from Games Business magazine - archive.gamehistory.org/item/b64e38c... - EA's Sims franchise made it #1, followed by Havas with Blizzard's titles, and Hasbro with Rollercoaster Tycoon.

Hey @quest64official.bsky.social do you need an extremely high-resolution copy of the Quest 64 box art

We talk to the Video Game History Foundation's directors Frank Cifaldi and Phil Salvador about the non-profit's digital library and the importance of its new archive of the '80s newsletter Computer Entertainer. www.endlessmode.com/article/the-...

Goth (?) SNES controller ads? Totally normal in '90s classic video game magazine-land.

When were games old enough to get 'retro compilations'? Our new Computer Entertainer scans tell us 1985 (!), when the Golden Oldies compilation (Pong, Eliza, Adventure & Life) shipped: archive.gamehistory.org/item/dbd05fe... (MobyGames info on the comp: www.mobygames.com/game/1549/go... .)

Oh heck yeah! My monthly random retro magazine from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a real doozy! Look at this thing. First look at RE. Darkstalkers 1, KI2, Shadows of the Empire….”are 16 bit games dead?” Cracking this bad boy open right now!

Welcome to the "Mysteriously receiving a magazine in the mail in exchange for supporting our charity" club!

The Video Game History Foundation (@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social) has digitised 1980s magazine "Computer Entertainer" and released it for free use. What's the big deal? It's a rare window into the US console industry at the time, says @philsalv.bsky.social thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/vide...

If you subscribe to our retro game magazine mystery box, you too may have received an issue of Hardcore Gamer! the-video-game-history-foundation.myshopify.com/products/bli... (we received a shipment containing hundreds of issues of Hardcore Gamer, so)

More great finds in Computer Entertainer. This is their review of the original Tetris! "You will go nutty trying to better your last score, and we assure you you'll have more than a little trouble walking away from it." archive.gamehistory.org/item/c09394a...

thanks to the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social you can now read through the entire run of one of the first video game magazines ever made

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

Love seeing these findings from Computer Entertainer (now in the Creative Commons!)

Heyyyyy…I think this is the first delivery from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social that has stuff I wrote. But it’s been so long I can’t remember what it was.

Video Game History Foundation expands its preservation efforts by making "one of the first American" games magazines available for free online www.eurogamer.net/video-game-h...