The following is part of our 25-day Holiday Countdown Calendar! Every day from December 1st through the 25th, we’re posting a cool game history treat, daily updates from the VGHF, giveaways, and more! To make sure you don’t miss a day, sign up for our email list:
This is all part of our annual Winter Fundraiser donation drive, where we ask those who are able to generously give what they can so that we can continue thriving. If you’re able to make an additional one-time charitable contribution, this really is the best time to do so, as your donations will be DOUBLED thanks to a generous group of sponsors! Head on over to gamehistory.org/donate to learn more and give today.
Here’s a rarity, and something we’re always excited to find: video footage directly from the E3 2000 floor!
This video was filmed by a co-worker of Mark Flitman, a video game producer who, at the time, was working for a small company called NuFX (Mark is also the guy who had the Eclipse demo in yesterday’s post!). Mark’s colleague filmed just about everything on display at E3. This footage includes a look at Nintendo’s booth (featuring Banjo-Tooie and the never-released Dinosaur Planet for Nintendo 64) and the famous first trailer for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. (It also includes, well, some things best left in 2000.)
Videos like this are not easy to find, and we’re excited to be preserving two hours of video from E3 2000 captured by Mark’s team.
Today’s Sponsor
Today’s sponsor is Fangamer! Fangamer makes some really great merch for all kinds of games, from retro classics to modern indie hits.
They’ve offered to DOUBLE every dollar put toward our goal this year, up $1,500! As I write this we’re still pretty far from our goal, so if you’ve been waiting to give this year, this would be a really great time.
This video comes from the Mark Flitman collection, one of the exciting collections in our archives that we’ve been able to preserve thanks to your generous donations. We’ll be sharing more of his materials throughout the month!
Flying out to meet Mark, dig through his life’s work, and digitize what was important in order that we might better understand history was not only a lot of work – it was expensive! If you support this kind of thing and want to see more, we’d love for you to support us during our Winter Fundraiser drive. Thanks to our generous sponsors, every dollar you spend right now will be doubled!
Coming tomorrow: Meet the humans who made Grand Theft Auto.
You can see tomorrow’s post right now!
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