Why is today “National Video Games Day”?

It’s being widely-circulated that today is National Video Games Day. It’s so widespread that as I write this, #VideoGamesDay is trending on Twitter. Game, one of the UK’s largest video game retailers, is basing a sale around it (despite its “national” origins being in the U.S., but we’ll get to that!). Chuck E. Cheese is…

Introducing the VGHF Writing Fund!

When we launched the Video Game History Foundation back in February, our goal was to make sure that researchers had access to the materials they would need to tell the stories of our past. We believe that given the right tools, we can not only reconstruct history that might otherwise be lost, but gain new…

A Look Back at Our GDC 2017 Display

We were fortunate enough to have a space at GDC 2017’s first-ever Retro Play area, alongside a handful of other organizations. We had three main goals with our display: Promote our “We want your old development stuff!” campaign, which encouraged game developers to archive their old materials so that historians of the future can tell…