@masterlinkuei.bsky.social shared that the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Tengen prototypes has an early build of Pit Fighter II for Genesis that was supposed to come out in late 1993 but was shelved.

We have one more treat for you this week... The rustiest staple we have ever seen in our lives

I worked at Scientific-Atlanta from 1994 until they were divested by Cisco in 2015. Around the launch of the SEGA Channel, they handed out these glow-in-the-dark Frisbees to us. They were probably part of a marketing effort encouraging our customers to launch the channel with our equipment.

Two unreleased Sega Game Gear games in early/unfinished state: "Prime" (1994) and "The World of Sport: Golf" (1993). Provided and recovered by @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social team, analyzed/patched by smspower team): www.smspower.org/forums/20713

🚨 From this ROM dump, the community has assembled a working development build of the unreleased port of Popils for the NES. More unfolding live! www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...

PoP IC1 and IC2 from the VGHF's current stream are a demo/prototype or something of Prince of Persia for MD/Genesis -- merged binary here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s55e5... @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Spent some fun time the last few weeks getting some old NES source code of Police Academy back into a compliable state. Fun dive into the the early 90s development system and all that stuff. Code and instructions on how to build it I wrote are released today by @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

ALL the stars are here on our ROM dumping stream! Police Academy NES! A broken build of Pit Fighter for Game Boy! www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...

Today's @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social ROM dumping live stream comes with a prototype of an unreleased, unannounced(?) Game Gear golf game from Tengen and Atreid Concept - The World of Sport: GOLF! Aiming, swinging, and club selection seem to work but putting does not. May bear further investigation.

The winter FUNraiser continues at 12pm Pacific: We're dumping a new set of mystery ROMs, live on stream! And we need your help to assemble the data! Based on the labels on these ROMs, there *will* be at least one new unpreserved game in here.

Everyone, we have OFFICIALLY COMPLETED OUR WINTER FUNDRAISER, with big baller @timmcconnell.bsky.social coming in to push us over the edge of our stretch goal! You all really came through for us, our 2026 is going to be really safe and secure for the VGHF. Thank you so much. Phil, go home.

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The cable-TV powered Sega Channel for Genesis/Mega Drive has been preserved and over 140 ROMs recovered. Here's the remarkable story: www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/12...

The response to this has been incredible! We're glad you're all as excited about this as we are. Reminder: Our work is mostly funded through individual donations to our charity. We're close to hitting our goals for 2026! If you were waiting to give, now is a great time: gamehistory.org/donate

As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels. Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/

Good morning. Please join us at 10am Pacific for a special presentation about Sega Channel. The video will last around 1 hour. Go make some coffee. We'll see you soon.

Please join us Monday for a special presentation.

Gotta be honest here - we were nervous this morning when we raised our original $30k fundraising goal to $45k so that we could accommodate a $5k donation match challenge from @cyan.com, unsure if we were shooting too high. But you all CAME THROUGH, and we demolished that challenge in one day!

198 people have stepped up to contribute to our annual Winter Fundraiser! Who will be lucky number 200?? As a reminder, @cyan.com is DOUBLING donations right now! there's about $500 left before that donation challenge has been met! givebutter.com/vghf-winter-...

A new challenger approaches! We just got a donation challenge from our friends at @cyan.com, creators of Myst and Riven! If you donate toward our Winter Fundraiser right now, Cyan will DOUBLE your contribution. If you were waiting to donate, now is the time! givebutter.com/vghf-winter-...

Please join us Monday for a special presentation.

We are SO EXCITED to finally show you Xcavator 2025! This is an unreleased (and unannounced!) NES game from 1991 that we recovered from its source code. The rights to it were 100% donated to us, and it's being published as a fundraiser cartridge to support our work!

We're partnering with @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social + @megacatstudios.bsky.social to release Xcavator 2025, a never before seen NES game from the legendary Chris Oberth. 100% of profits go to @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social! Pre-order now to play the newest old game on the market: bit.ly/xcavator-2025

Join us in about an hour for our live chat premiere!

Join us tonight at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern for a YouTube Premiere of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social's impassioned, energetic talk about the state of video game preservation. This was previously for GDC attendees only, but has been unlocked for all. We'll be in chat! youtu.be/_00AjQNjgDk?...

A treat for helping us reach the goal for our annual fundraiser: We've redigitized the MaxiVision Power Video Challenge, an infomercial for an unlicensed NES multicart, featuring WWF superstars in the WORLD GAME FEDERATION Read more: gamehistory.org/maxivision-p...

Since we've rocketed past our winter fundraiser goal, how about a little treat to celebrate? Give us just a second here...

We did it! Thanks to your generosity, we smashed through our minimum goal in just two days, meaning *VGHF is officially funded for 2026*! Thank you all so much. We could always use more, so the campaign is still open through the end of the year! Online events start next week! gamehistory.org/donate

We are OVER $25K ON DAY TWO, with just over $4k left to hit our minimum goal for 2026! You're all incredible, thanks for the support and the shares! Finishing the meter isn't a guarantee though, so if you were thinking of giving but waiting, help us keep this momentum going! gamehistory.org/donate

🎉We made it halfway in less than 8 hours! Thank you so so much for joining us in keeping video game history alive. We've still got a ways to go but getting this far on day one is a huge relief. Still plenty of time to help! gamehistory.org/donate

Did you know that your donations today are DOUBLED? That means if we raise another $424, it'll magically become $848, which will put us HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL on day one!

🥳 We've smaaaaashed through 33% of our annual fundraising goal in less than four hours! If we reach our goal on day one we'll literally kick Phil out of the office and make him go home early to relax.

It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate

VGHF's latest Video Game History Hour podcast features audio of our PRGE panel on the 40th anniversary of the NES launch, ft. Gail Tilden, Marketing; Bruce Lowery, Sales; and Lance Barr, Product Design: https://gamehistory.org/episode-145-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-nes-a-prge-panel/

Original B&W concept / promo art from Twisted Metal 3? We've got that too in the GamePro art CD archives: https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/97088652-b416-4c1f-9928-e5dba5862c4d

The Worlds Of Ultima spinoffs took the classic fantasy RPG in some different directions - and The Savage Empire (1990, based on the Ultima VI engine) went full Conan Doyle 'Lost World'.

Also from the newly archived VGHF GamePro press CDs, this EA/Square collab disc - https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/236fb114-867f-4e78-ab60-e05c230ad10d - includes hi-res Parasite Eve promo images.

Over on Patreon, supporters get a preview of what we have coming in December! We're wrapping up the year with some fun content and a couple surprises

This Secret Of Monkey Island ad from 1991 includes details of the Monkey Island Treasure Hunt. What's that? Certain 3M diskette boxes (and a write-in offer) included a demo you could complete to win a cruise (or a sound card!)

Thanks to our GamePro art CD archiving (https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2), VGHF is preserving hi-res versions of, uh, Bruce Willis being a shoot-y CG guy in Neversoft & Activision's Apocalypse.

Who remembers Eye Of The Beholder? This classic Westwood developed D&D-licensed first person dungeon crawler RPG debuted in 1991.

New public post on our Patreon: We THINK we have every issue of PCGames magazine. How do we know that other issues *don't* exist? Well, it's tricky...

Remember when game companies used magazines to help hire? Back in 2008, this ad in Game Developer magazine suggested you apply to work at a (pre-Fortnite, post-Unreal) Epic Games: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/bc1cf67b-d52f-4d3b-bd76-5d454ea2e3af

What's that? Some nice Rival Schools (Capcom fighting game) character art from a 1998 GamePro magazine backup? Don't mind if we do! https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/2a227067-4606-4dd6-9b94-f865e0fc33ed?sortField=title&sortDir=asc&showUncatalogedFiles=true

More art gems from our expanded GamePro press CD collection - https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2 - as picked by Deeb on BSky - can you identify all 4?

Digital Eclipse just released new DLC for Atari 50, covering Namco ports for Atari platforms. And... hey, what's this? That's Computer Entertainer, the game magazine we released into the Creative Commons this summer! It's already being used in commercial game history projects

flipping through my vghf random retro magazine for the month (gamepro sept '95) and wow!!! the legendary!!! first time i've ever seen it in the wild... the card has Some kind of unidentifiable smell but it has faded with time

Thanks to a generous donation, we've completed our digitized collection of E3 directories from 1995–2006. Every booth, every company, every map. 2400 pages. archive.gamehistory.org/folder/53778...

Thanks to a local volunteer, our Domesday VHS capture setup is working again! This still-experimental hardware mod lets us read from VHS tapes at the highest possible quality, directly from the internals of the VCR Currently digitizing this goofy Xbox Live infomercial...