Over 15 years before Mortal Kombat, Exidy’s destruction derby caused video gaming’s first moral panic.
Before they knew to call them “video games,” writers had to resort to all kinds of colorful descriptions.
To advertise the first commercial video game, marketers took inspiration from an unlikely source.
Singing raisins, flying firemen, and a Dracula who loves Reebok sneakers.
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…
Something pretty fun happened yesterday that I wanted to share with you all: a bot on Twitter accidentally provided the clue that finally solved a 28-year-old mystery about a DOS game that never shipped. Yesterday, the VGHF Twitter account was tagged in a thread by @awesomonster, who was frantically trying to figure out the origins…
Thanks to a VERY GENEROUS donor, we were recently able to acquire something of a holy grail for me and my scanner: an original 1983 promotional handbill from Nintendo, advertising the games that were slated to be coming soon to the Famicom. The flyer is historically important on its own, as what might be the…
How do you explain video games when video games don’t exist yet?
The following article by freelance journalist Lisette Voytko is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the work of women throughout video game history. It was made possible through donations made toward the VGHF Writing Fund. If you’d like to see more like this, consider donating today! While working as a barista at a southern California coffee shop,…
The Internet Archive’s book collections are a goldmine…if you learn to deal with its quirks.