Good things come to those who wait - the Video Game History Foundation Digital Library launches on January 30th, 2025. (We'll tell you all about it then!)
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I'm 1000% hoping for the UK Playstation and Nintendo magazines as they were a big part of my childhood and the only place that has UKPSM scans is a forum that has paywalled access to them which is frustrating for archive enthusiasts like myself
Hey, wanted to answer this! We have some but not many UK magazines in the library at launch. Since we're based in the US, it's harder for us to collect international mags (eg., we have a small run of ONM). I know this is an area people want to see more of in the future and I'm keeping that in mind!
Hey Phil, I have a lot of UK magazines from the 90s including almost the entire Official PS1/PS2/Saturn magazines in PDF, any interest in them? I think I might be the only person who actually has them since they disappeared from the Internet Archive. Cheers
Thank you for thinking of us! We're only doing digital access for magazines that we have physical copies of right now. I do appreciate it, but we don't want to put stuff in the library unless we can verify we have our own copy
Will there be any Portuguese gaming magazines from back then, say 90s, 2000s and early 2010s? I was an avid gamer and gaming lover but I didn't have enough green dough due to hard times and the Recession, so I couldn't buy them at all times. Would be nostalgic and cool to see them there. :)
I really want to see some stuff from the Super Mario franchise that I never seen before. I remember those recent discoveries including Luigi in Super Mario 64 Beta and Wapeach concept art. I have high hopes for this!
Counting the days! It might be useful, for launch, if you could
a) include your URL (https://gamehistory.org/) in your bio
b) verify your bluesky account using that domain
I'd love to see Nintendo work with you guys on getting all the old Nintendo Power issues archived. An archive of every Nintendo Power and Player's Guide for Switch Online subscribers seems like it would be a no brainer for them, but since they won't, they should let you put up their old issues!
Wow, there are really interesting posts on your timeline. I checked your posts and you always post beautiful pictures, but we are not friends here on Facebook
This is such a great project. Thank you so much to the VGHF for undertaking this and making it freely available to the public. I'll absolutely start contributing to your Patreon to support this great work.
As the main person building EGM's upcoming Digital Archive, I believe—having not used VGHF's site yet—we're taking different approaches.
I think their approach is going for more of a text search of OCRed scans of issues, which will provide the chance to search through them for terms or other text.
This is going to be a GREAT resource, given so many of these old magazines would never have any such archive otherwise. There's so much history and information in these old magazines that currently is only searchable by flipping through each issue page-by-page.
On the other side of things, for the EGM Digital Archive, we're going through every issue EGM by hand to catalog as much from each issue as we can with a variety of metadata. This is going to offer extra levels of searching that the VGHF's site (again, from my understanding) won't offer.
That's not meant to be any insult what they're doing, to be clear. We're doing a finer level of cataloging that simply wouldn't be possible with thousands of issues of magazines without a huge amount of time, money, resources, or manpower. I'm exhausted just doing the issues of EGM that I've done. 😅
I paid for the fancy-pants edition with lifetime archive access and the poster and stuff and I did not realize you were the one doing the archival stuff for it! That rules, I'm so excited.
Yeah, in addition to being half of the core writing team on the book, I started putting together a simpler website mainly focused on helping us in the creation of the book. It ended up being so neat to use we decided to build it up into something to share with others.
"Okay, so to get to the Hall of Konami, go up the stairs, take the elevator up to the 30th floor, take the escalator down, go down the stairs to the left, turn right at the bathrooms, left at the TMNT room, right again at the Gradius ship, yell 'a baby!', and they'll select you to start exploring."
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It is a late 20th/early 21st century online gaming historians wet dream...and almost nobody even knows it exists. Don't let it be lost to time!!
a) include your URL (https://gamehistory.org/) in your bio
b) verify your bluesky account using that domain
"The Ending Has Not Yet Been Written."
I think their approach is going for more of a text search of OCRed scans of issues, which will provide the chance to search through them for terms or other text.
When coming across things like that, we've done research to tag—as accurately as we can—that game with an actual name, company info, platform(s), etc.