The Video Game History Hour

GlitchCat7, competitive gamer/ROM hacker/full time streamer/Kaizo Mario historian of record, joins us to discuss his extensive blog post, The Complete…

Historian and documentarian Kate Willaert returns to the show, this time to discuss her recent article on “adult” games made…

John Rairdin of Nintendo World Report joins us to discuss his ambitious documentary The History and Development of Star Fox…

We’re joined, once again, by Norman Caruso to discuss the history of a unique 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System controller, the…

To celebrate the Video Game History Hour’s 50th episode we’ve invited friend of the show, Chris Kohler, to join a…

Jimmy Maher, creator of The Digital Antiquarian, returns to the show to discuss his article on The Dig, a LucasArts…

Tomorrow marks the 22 year anniversary of the Dreamcast’s North American launch back on 9/9/99. To celebrate, we’re joined by…

In our final week of our three week hiatus, we’re going back to a conversation we had with David L.…

We’re continuing our brief hiatus, but this week we’re sharing a little after-show chat we had with Alex Smith talking…

The podcast is going to take a brief hiatus for a few weeks in order to better focus on projects…

Greetings and welcome to some quality time with Clint Basinger of Lazy Game Reviews, his YouTube channel dedicated to computer…

A behind the scenes look at one of our recent home preservation efforts. Sometimes we get the call from someone…

Martin Robinson of Eurogamer brings us the history of the Neo Geo, an interesting console of its time owned by…

Once again, we’re joined by Kevin Bunch of Atari Archive, this time to talk about his 50th episode of said…

We open up the mailbag and answer some of our listeners’ burning questions! We cover emulation preservation, the definition of…

Fan turned archivist Mat Van Rhoon of Big Finish Games tells the story of the lost Tex Murphy series production…

Norman Caruso is here to share the history of the Sega Mega Modem from his most recent video SEGA Mega…

Grace Kramer and Derek Alexander are this week’s guests discussing the Nokia N-Gage from their recent documentary, N-Gage: Cell Phone…

Game historian, journalist, and content creator Kim Justice joins us to talk about the commercial and critical disappointment, though surprisingly…

We sit down with Jimmy Maher, author of The Digital Antiquarian, to examine his recent four part series: The Ratings…

Felipe Pepe is here to showcase his collaborative, non-profit project to create a historical guide to computer role playing games:…

Diving into the history of the Xbox in his recent long read, Bet on Black: How Microsoft and Xbox Changed…

Eric Switzer joins us to share the development and downfall of Darkwatch in his article The Untold Story Of Darkwatch.…

Our podcasting duo takes us back to the dawning of real-time computer games: Spacewar! Alex Smith joins us for round…

Ben Hanson returns to the show to bring us The Oral History Of PopCap Games, a not 4 hour long…

Dr. Sparkle, the creator of Chrontendo, takes us through his more than decade long project to analyze every commercially released…

Raven Simone takes us down the research rabbit hole she fell into while making her video The Girl Games Of…

Should Monkey Island be made into a movie? Could it be? Jack Yarwood lays out the history of how this…

David Haywood, AKA Haze, discusses the MAME software preservation project: a collaborative, encyclopedic haven and emulator for all those ‘forgotten’…

Author, documentarian, artist, guest VGHF blogger, and wild west gunslinger Kate Willaert claims the title of First FMV Game for…

Musical Archeologist and Demo Stylist (professions we made up just now), The Brickster, explains how he and his colleagues collaborate…

You and Diddy better jump inside that explosive barrel and get tossed into this minecart because we are going on…

Discussing his new book, Once Upon Atari: How I Made History by Killing an Industry, Howard Scott Warshaw takes us…

Documentarian Bones joins us to discuss their directorial debut Mother to Earth. We dive into the mysteries of Earth Bound,…

Journalist Liz Landau reminisces about the old days of text-based adventuring through MUDs (Multi User Dungeons) and how they’re the…

Damian Rogers from Japan’s Game Preservation Society joins us this week to talk about their new documentary series: Geimu. Born…

We uncover lost stories of the never released Power-Up Baseball, sometimes referred to as “MLB Jam,” with then programer, now…

Iain Simons from The National Videogame Museum, UK joins us to discuss their current project: Animal Crossing Diaries. We learn…

In his recent video, WorkBoy: Lost Game Boy Add-on FOUND After 28 Years – Game History Secrets, Liam Robertson not…

THE speedrun historian and world’s fastest Mike Tyson’s Punch-out!! record holder, Summoning Salt, gives us an inside look at the…

Alex Smith, author of They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry,…

Chicken owner and gaming historian, Kevin Bunch, joins us to share some of the lessons he’s learned by living the…

Frank and Kelsey close out the year 2020 by answering your burning questions. We touch on topics of policy, found…

Today’s episode features the bizarre origins of SimRefinery as well as other Sim titles which never came to be. Phil…

Much the way we all set our status to NOT show when we’re in a game, the Game and Watch…

In his documentary, Insert Coin, Josh Tsui explored the good, the bad, and the ugly of Midway Games’ Studio from…

In this turn-based interview, Sid Meier takes us from zero to 255 and brings the show nuclear! Well, at least…