2019 Year in Review!

Ten conferences, three movies, a library, and a museum exhibit were only just the start…

Every English-Language Video Game Magazine Still In Print

Print might be “dead,” but don’t tell these 25+ active magazines.

Kelsey Lewin Named VGHF’s Co-Director

Our most prominent volunteer is now our first hire!

Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES

The Super Nintendo classic started life on the 8-bit NES. That version was considered lost…until now.

The Sega-Gremlin Marketing Video Archive

Nearly a decade before they did what Nintendon’t, Sega’s marketing still managed to break new ground…even when it was really cheesy.

The Media vs. Death Race

Over 15 years before Mortal Kombat, Exidy’s destruction derby caused video gaming’s first moral panic.

A Video Game By Any Other Name

Before they knew to call them “video games,” writers had to resort to all kinds of colorful descriptions.

Pixels In Print (Part 1): Advertising Computer Space – The First Arcade Video Game

To advertise the first commercial video game, marketers took inspiration from an unlikely source.

From the Game Informer Archives: Lost NES Games!

Singing raisins, flying firemen, and a Dracula who loves Reebok sneakers.

The time I excavated a Power Glove dinosaur

So after yesterday’s discovery of an undocumented Spinnaker game hiding in a pile of 90s GIFs (you did read that, didn’t you?) I was inspired to dig a little further into the GIFs Galore CD. And what I found, and brought back to life, was a lost Power Glove dinosaur. Sort of. Let’s back up…