The Video Game History Hour

Jonathan piqued the interest of our co-hosts with his recent video EarthBound 64/MOTHER 3 N64 Spaceworld ‘99 breakdown/analysis, a detailed…

Chris Baines shares his recently published documentary, The History of Ghosts ‘n Goblins (and Makaimura 魔界村) – Full Series Retrospective…

Jon-Paul Dyson, the Director of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at The Strong, where he is…

Gaming historian Liam Robertson returns as almost a sequel to Ep. 16 to share how Nintendo’s Page Boy was almost…

Author Chris Kohler explores the evolution of niche fan culture from analog to digital through stories from his book Final…

Veteran game designer Noah Falstein looks back on his 42 year long, and counting, career and reflects on the evolution…

Benj Edwards – journalist, tech historian, and recovering retro computer hoarder – teaches us a little about MS-DOS and QBasic…

A couple months ago we hosted a ticketed event as a fundraiser we called Nintendo Power Reunion – Stories from…

Translator, localizer, and writer Nob Ogasawara shares highlights of his career working with the Pokémon franchise and at EGM. He…

Dimitris Giannakis, well-known for creating excellent videos on the technical aspect of video game preservation, explains. Luckily, he wears a…

Join us in our celebration of the Video Game History Foundation’s 5th birthday! Let’s take a ride through history as…

Phil Salvador – video game historian and librarian – has not only joined the Video Game History Foundation as its…

Our guest this week, Yahel Velazquez from the Patreon funded YouTube channel Wrestling With Gaming, caught our eye with his…

Author and oral historian Brian VanHooker recently caught our attention with his very appropriately titled article, An Oral History of…

Video game historian and documentarian Kevin Bunch is here to talk about the Fairchild Channel F: the greatest game console…

Gaming Historian and friend of the show, Norm Caruso, joins us to expand on his recent video The Ultimate Guide…

Danny O’Dwyer of Noclip is here to talk about the latest episode in their Greatest Hits series, The History of…

Andrew Borman, Digital Games Curator at The Strong National Museum of Play, joins us to discuss the roles, benefits, limitations,…

It’s time, once again, to answer your burning questions! But first, a big thank you to all our listeners, supporters,…

Dustin Hubbard (Hubz), founder of Gaming Alexandria, and Robert Reeves (Phillyman), founder of Retromags, join hosts Frank and Kelsey in…

PushDustIn, aka Will, takes us on a journey through the past of Super Smash Bros. (read: Brothers). Sparing us only…

Jacob Salas, of the website Pop History, joins the show to tell us about an ambitious attempt at a Virtual…

Alex Smith returns to the show, this time to talk about Computer Space: a 1971 arcade game often considered the…

Cyberlaw Clinic tech lawyer Kendra Albert and librarian and video game historian Phil Salvador join the show to give us…

Rachel Weil started the FEMICOM Museum to catalogue, celebrate, and remix the history of girl games, girly games, and femme…

Executive Director of Hit Save!, Jonas Rosland, joins us to showcase some of the amazing work this fellow 501(c)(3) non-profit…

Gaming historian and journalist Damiano Gerli shares the details of how exactly Nintendo marketed itself to the Italian consumer in…

Author Tim Lapetino joins us to discuss his new book, Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon. After so many years, why…

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…