Hi folks! Frank is starting the prototype stream right now as we speak! We have about 125 loose ROM chips that we believe are from Taito, mostly unlabeled, and we're going to recover data from them and start looking through them live on stream!
2025-06-04 19:53:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Phil Salvador chats with Brian Clark, author of Gameplay Harmonies, and Kevin Bunch, owner of Atari Archive, about the history of video game house bands. We cover the rise of bands like Sega Sound Team (SST) and Zuntata, the fall of house bands in the mid-90’s, and some ...
2025-06-03 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFrank Cifaldi and Phil Salvador host a discussion with Jez San, Jason Smith, and Mike Arkin from Argonaut Games about the development and remastering of the 1997 game Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. We touch on what went into the original game - incorporating 3D technology and character desi...
2025-05-27 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in 2023, we announced we were working with Cyan, the developers of the Myst series, to preserve their video archives. The Cyan collection was one of the highlights of our library when we launched it back in January, and we figured it was time to dig in and share some of the unique, ...
2025-05-22 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We're LIVE unpacking the mail! As we teased yesterday, we were donated HALF A TON of video game magazines, which we're opening live on stream. Will we find some unpreserved rarities? Is it going to be the game magazine version of Al Capone's vault? We'll see!
This stream supports our myster...
2025-05-20 19:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Tomorrow at 1pm PDT, we're opening HALF A TON of video game magazines, live on stream!
Earlier this year, an especially generous collector donated their entire game magazine collection to us. That's nearly 1400 magazines across 50 boxes. We really have no idea what to expect from these. So ...
2025-05-19 19:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hosts Frank Cifaldi and Phil Salvador chat with Mark and Michelle Flitman, a father-daughter duo, about Mark’s career, his donated collection at the VGHF, and his autobiography: "It’s Not All Fun and Games." As a semi-retired video game and toy producer, Mark shares his career highlights as a...
2025-05-13 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We're wrapping up our work on a collection from Craig Stitt, an artist who worked for Sega Technical Institute and Insomniac Games. The last piece we're working on is his collection of VHS tapes that contains samples of his artwork.
Craig uploaded these to YouTube a while back, but we're go...
2025-05-09 00:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The Video Game History Foundation team members share their experiences at GDC 2025: our exhibit on unreleased NES games, showcasing 552 titles; Frank Cifaldi's lecture on game preservation; a talk on spreadsheets; Cheesecake Factory menu choices; and how we're still recovering from whatever germs...
2025-04-29 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phil Salvador hosts Polygon’s Clayton Ashley and Simone de Rochefort to discuss a documentary they produced last year called The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft | Full Polygon Documentary about the 1996 FMV C...
2025-04-29 10:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostPhil Salvador and Robin Kunimune chat with Chlo
2025-04-15 10:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Phil here again! Now that we're recovered from GDC, we're back to processing materials for our digital library. The day after we all got back from GDC, we laid everything out on a whiteboard, and we were shocked just how much we have coming up in the next month or two. So we wanted to give you a ...
2025-04-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The discussion with Kendra Albert and the copyright ruling continue with a handful of our Discord-submitted listener questions. Phil and Kendra touch on topics of the political landscape of copyright reform, the importance of the 1201 exemption process, legitimizing video game studies, preservi...
2025-04-01 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostPhil Salvador and Kendra Albert, a partner at A
2025-04-01 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode of Video Game History Hour, Mic
2025-03-18 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for all your support for the launch of our digital library a little over a month ago. After what felt like years of buildup, we've taken the last month to shift our gears back down and work on some bigger collections and longer-term projects, which we'll be sharing more about in the future...
2025-03-07 21:22:23 +0000 UTC View PostGail Tilden, Nintendo of America’s marketing mastermind, takes Frank Cifaldi on a trip down memory lane in a panel at the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, reminiscing about everything from the early days of NES branding to the explosive rise of Pokémon. She shares behind-the-scenes stori...
2025-03-04 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Laine Nooney, an associate professor at NYU and
2025-02-18 11:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We kept the recording going a little longer to answer some more questions from you lovely Patreon members in our Discord server, discuss additional behind-the-scenes considerations of this massive endeavor, talk about our technical challenges and subsequent custom solutions/tools, and to just han...
2025-02-04 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s finally arrived: our digital library archi
2025-02-04 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, the Video Game History Foundation launches early access to its digital archive of video game history research materials, available now at library.gamehistory.org.
Ever since we started in 2017, the Video Game His...
2025-01-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, library director Phil Salvador here again! We just announced that we're launching our digital library on January 30! This years-in-the-making project would never have been possible without your support.
You might remember that we originally wanted to open the libr...
2025-01-23 19:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Guests Katrin Auch and Dan Amrich, formerly of
2025-01-21 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by Director of Digital Preservation at The Strong National Museum of Play Andrew Borman to recap the events of the first ever Save the Games Symposium put on by the museum in August 2024, a conference dedicated to digital preservation and advancing the field of video game preservatio...
2025-01-07 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In this field report from Mead, Washington, Cya
2024-12-24 11:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
In our very first episode of season two, university professor José Zagal and video game historian Benj Edwards, co-authors of Seeing Red: Ni
In our very first episode of season two, universit...
2024-12-12 01:28:13 +0000 UTC View Post
We're thrilled to announce season two of the Video Game History Hour is finally here! We've been toiling away behind the scenes putting together a fun and interesting new line-up of guests and we can't ...
2024-12-12 00:49:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Frank is joined by our show's producer, Robin, historian Chris Kohler, and special guest Amanda Cifaldi to recap all that went on at Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2024. Back in late September we, along...
This week, we kicked off our annual winter fundraiser, with exclusive merchandise, auctions, and other ways to support us. It's been a jam-packed year, and we want to show you the impact your ongoing support had for us in 202...
2024-12-04 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Tomorrow we're launching our annual winter fundraiser. We'll have more to share tomorrow about what's coming up next for VGHF, but we wanted to tip you off early about some limited-time merchandise we're debuting for the fundraiser.
This year, we're selling exclusive prints fro...
2024-12-02 22:17:49 +0000 UTC View Post