Who's on the cover of this 1992 Electronics Boutique game catalog scanned by VGHF? Why, it's EB mascot Elbo the dog. Hi, Elbo! https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/3e598ac1-b4bc-4f66-a8ba-6463d78782c1

Today we're rescanning some issues of the 80s/90s magazine Game Player's. This issue (Volume 2, Number 3) includes the First Annual Videogame and Computer Game Awards! Let's see what won in 1989...

Last month at PRGE, we held a reunion panel with Nintendo employees who launched the NES. Hear from Bruce Lowry, Gail Tilden, and Lance Barr about how the scrappy staff at NOA defied all odds and released one of the most iconic game systems ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2WDfsiLiRA

For our new followers: We run a free digital library for researching game history! We have over 4000+ out-of-print game magazines and hundreds of development documents, press kits, event guides, and more archive.gamehistory.org

Hello sports fans We're the Video Game History Foundation, a non-profit that's helping preserve the history of video games. This year, we launched our digital video game history library!

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

How many of these 'extreme player!' '90s console controller ads are there? Quite a few apparently...

Yes, this ad for 1993 Sega Genesis game The Ren & Stimpy Show Presents: Stimpy's Invention forces you to connect the dots before working out who the 'stars' are.

This year for Halloween, we handing out copies of the 1990 International Summer Consumer Electronics Show Official Directory archive.gamehistory.org/item/a4b7adc...

The PC version of Rare's unconventional Viva Pinata gets this amusing 2007 U.S. print ad - 'I pledge to buy Viva Pinata and provide hundreds of abused pinatas with a safe place to live'?

Presenting our newest archival collection: The Andrew Nelson papers, from the writer of the 1996 mystery game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time 🚢 Read more:

For more about the Andrew Nelson papers, listen to the latest episode of the Video Game History Hour podcast, featuring Nelson and guest co-host @galexquest.bsky.social!

This 1993 U.S. print ad scanned by the VGHF showcases the Super Bomberman Party Pak, including the game and the four-player adaptor for the SNES. (So much fun!)

Annnd we're live! Thank you so much, @philsalv.bsky.social, for having me on. It really was a lot of fun to dive into the earlier script and replay an old favorite!

Love these totally hinged reactions to our new collection

Presenting our newest archival collection: The Andrew Nelson papers, from the writer of the 1996 mystery game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time 🚢 Read more:

Anyone remember this hardware bundle? This PlayStation Portable Star Wars combo from 2007 includes a silk-screened Darth Vader design and a version of Star Wars Battlefront.

From the first ever issue of Game Informer magazine in 1991, 'True power players take a ride on the Hot Seat'. Apparently.

We've added another 600+ pages of video game catalogs to our library, including some mail-order catalogs from the UK! archive.gamehistory.org/folder/ccc52...

Look, VGHF unearthed this issue of short-live B2B mag Interactive Age, featuring Yoichi Wada, David Cage and Ian Livingstone discussing the global nature of games.

Thanks to a donation from @joerybicki.com, we now have a complete collection of P.S.X., physically AND digitally! October 1996 was the last issue we were missing and also the last unscanned issue archive.gamehistory.org/item/c548c7c...

Today's challenge: Can you figure out what game this development screenshot comes from? We recovered this from our press CD collection (we know what it is, but we want to see if anyone can get this!)

HA HA GET STUFFD

For VGHF Patreon members: we have a preview of a new collection coming to our library next week, featuring the history of the interactive movie company Cyberflix!

The @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social library is so good

It’s FunFactor Fuuuuuuuuuesday (on Wednesday)! We’ve unlocked our fabulous bonus episode w/ @philsalv.bsky.social & @frankcifaldi.bsky.social of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social about games media preservation, game critic pioneers, and a review of the first(?) North American review of Super Mario Bros.

Yup, this early U.S. River City Ransom ad in EGM Issue 2 (Summer 1989) dispensed with any screenshots or other info, in favor of a novelty approach...

The rare Arcade Express (later named Electronic Games Hotline) was a biweekly U.S. supplement to the magazine Electronic Games - here's 1982 coverage of the Atari/Lucasfilm deal that led to Rescue On Fractalus and Ballblazer. (As well as a separate Raiders Of The Lost Ark deal!)

Another super-rare VGHF scan, Christian Comics & Games was a short-lived 1995 periodical reviewing Christian games like the superhero-starring Captain Bible. Yes, really: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/642ea239-64b2-49aa-b5e6-ee0c5eea924a

Remember when game consoles were cheap? This article from rare B2B Game Intelligence magazine - https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/f61d4f21-efce-44ee-bdc7-860d5713b1df - says CompUSA was selling the Game Boy Color for $64.99 "as a way of luring customers into stores during the [1998] holidays".

At the height of Guitar Hero madness (2008), there was an entire 'Guitars & Gaming' magazine released, including Slash and Joe Perry interviews: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/c4d3f3ec-ab7e-42fa-bef8-93bcffe6ff46

Near Portland? Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NES with a once-in-a-lifetime panel with the people who made it happen! We're hosting a panel on the actual 40th anniversary date with ex-Nintendo staff. Memories, photos, surprises and more! www.patreon.com/posts/nes-40...

It’s another quarterly podcast update for VGHH! Robin Kunimune talks with Frank Cifaldi and Phil Salvador about recent work, from Chicago travel to launching Computer Entertainer, from our new Booth-in-a-Box to 4,000 magazines archived & more: https://gamehistory.org/episode-142-october-update/

This dual-game VGHF-scanned Konami ad from 1990 reminds us that, yes, Snake's Revenge had a character called Higharolla Kockamamie in it. (This horrible Ayatollah Khomeini riff is apparently not Hideo Kojima's fault, folks.)

Near Portland? Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NES with a once-in-a-lifetime panel with the people who made it happen! We're hosting a panel on the actual 40th anniversary date with ex-Nintendo staff. Memories, photos, surprises and more! www.patreon.com/posts/nes-40...

The winners (Deer Hunter, Ocarina Of Time) and losers (CompUSA, Interplay) of 1998 in U.S. game retail, per Game Intelligence magazine (as scanned by VGHF!) - https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/f61d4f21-efce-44ee-bdc7-860d5713b1df

Ah yes, finish shooting all the terrorists after your homework's done, won't you? (This is a very weirdly pitched VGHF-scanned ad for Rescue: The Embassy Mission, aka Hostages.)

VGHF recently archived a LucasArts press CD-ROM from 1996 as part of the GamePro archives, including a full history of the company to date: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/fc835949-e496-47ff-9800-e8f5428e01e2 (The LucasArts .com website got '5,000 visits a day' back in 1996!)

Here's original GamePro-provided promo art from 1996 PlayStation (& other format!) platformer Johnny Bazookatone, in which "The original guitar hero... has been imprisoned in the year 2050 in Sin Sin Prison by El Diablo." Okay: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/cab7a...

We're big believers in making sure the metadata in our library is human-curated and accurate. Here's a sample from some cataloging we're working on today: We're reviewing about 100 CD-Rs from the art department at GamePro to confirm when they were burned and which companies were involved

Hey! Did you get an NES Classic mini console but you don't care about the manual/poster it came with? Put it to use supporting @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social! I'm seeking these out for fundraiser autograph opportunities, but need them ASAP. Let me know! Can pay!

Collectors! Store owners! Hoarders! Help us out! @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is looking to source copies of this 1985 NES pack-in poster for fundraising reasons, and we need them asap. We already cleaned out eBay. Note that they need to be the ones that say copyright 1985, as pictured! Can pay!

Here's the 'main' show floor for E3 1998 in Atlanta, via the E3 Show Daily magazine (as scanned by VGHF): archive.gamehistory.org/item/65ce6bc... - which companies are you surprised by? (Size or location-wise!)

Anybody remember when Sonic Team's next big franchise after the hedgehog was... Billy Hatcher? (Here's a teaser ad from 2003, in case you forgot...)

My October random magazine from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is this 1996 issue of PS Extreme. I have no memories of this magazine and I was reading everything back then. 🤷‍♀️ Highlights include a baffling ad for Reloaded, declaring Tomb Raider “the adult Mario”, and GIVING BUBSY 3D A 93%! “

Has the VGHF archived original Bubsy 3D art from a press CD provided to GamePro magazine? Yes. Do you want it? No? Well you're getting it anyhow... archive.gamehistory.org/folder/0119a...

It's Macho Man Monday

Legend Of Zelda magazine covers? Expected! A Link's Crossbow Training magazine cover - from Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook back in 2008? Not so much...

The latest Video Game History Hour podcast talks to Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, about her research on video games in girls’ lifestyle magazines like Girl Gamer & Total Girl: gamehistory.org/episode-141-...

We've fixed an issue that affected search results in this collection. If you haven't checked out the William Volk papers yet, now's a great time to dig in! archive.gamehistory.org/folder/2cc8f...