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Today, the Video Game History Foundation launches early access to its digital archive of video game history research materials, available now at library.gamehistory.org.

Ever since we started in 2017, the Video Game History Foundation has been building a digital library to help the study of video game history. We've been collecting development documents, behind-the-scenes content, rare video game publications and catalogs, magazines, memorabilia, ephemera, and more.

After years of cataloging, processing, and digitizing our collections, we're ready to open our (virtual) doors to the public for the first time.

You can read all about the launch of the library on our blog. This is just the start of our library, and we're going to keep growing this over time.

For everyone who's been following us on Patreon all these years, we hope this was worth the wait. We've been working diligently (and quietly) on this for so long, and we think what we've built is going to change how people study video game history. This would not have been possible without your support.

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library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access

The Video Game History Foundation Library is open in early access. For everybody. For free. Wherever you are. Right now. Access thousands of video game history materials, from development documents to magazines to press kits and more. The future of game history research is at your fingertips. Read more: https://gamehistory.org/vghf-library-launch/ https://library.gamehistory.org https://archive.gamehistory.org --- Articles and videos referenced (in order): - Game History Gallery at GDC 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGl14yIeOsc - Super Sushi Pinball - Lost Sony NES Game Revealed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpilK06IriA - First US Nintendo commercial? Mego "Time-Out" Toss-Up (1980): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xVT5i1muxE - US Copyright Office hearing, April 18, 2024: https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2024/hearings.html - "Video Game Preservation Has Become an Industry Urgency" by Robert Steiner for Variety: https://variety.com/vip/video-game-preservation-2024-1235981428/ - Sonic 2 Lost Stages Revealed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfJ4uEcJJtA - 2024 Independent Games Festival Awards Ceremony: https://youtu.be/WkW3FicsKUU?t=4428 - "Looks like GameStop just shut down 'Game Informer' magazine and killed its archive" by Matt Binder for Mashable: https://mashable.com/article/gamestop-shuts-down-game-informer-removes-website-digital-archive Music credits (in order): - Pamgaea – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ - Koopa Vacation – Ben Briggs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMY3pT2w5LM Licensed via GameChops under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ - Goldenrod Game Corner – RobKTA. https://gamechops.com/ultraball/ Licensed via GameChops under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ - Surfing on a Sine Wave – Fearofdark. Used with permission. - Dvorak Polka – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Audio credits: - Little Whoosh 1 by ch_ase – https://freesound.org/s/423792/ Licensed under Creative Commons 0 1.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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