The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are. Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library... - ThreadSky

videospacegames.bsky.social•122 days ago

Congratulations!

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erotikill.bsky.social•122 days ago

This is awesome. I may not game as much as I used to do, but I still love reading game history. Thank you so much!

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camerontalley.bsky.social•120 days ago

Really enjoying reading through old Next Generation magazines. I'm so glad all these materials are preserved!

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earthboundbooks.bsky.social•122 days ago

Thank you!

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craftersshaft.undertaie.com•121 days ago

i know this breaks the "only use for research or publication" policy but i found this set of Virtual Bart takes too funny not to do anything with

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mohawk1337.bsky.social•121 days ago

I'm gonna subscribe! 👏🎮

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speckbrummsel.bsky.social•122 days ago

Great!

Bit under pressure rn it seems.

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acegamersam.bsky.social•122 days ago

That is so amazing ! 😮 Time to share, share and share again !

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tezukuri.dev•121 days ago

So many amazing memories to be relived; this truly is an incredible gift to the gaming world.

Thank you to everyone at the Video Game History Foundation for making this possible. 💛

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blackheartvinyl.bsky.social•118 days ago

Boy, I bet @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social is gonna love this shit.

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javo.bsky.social•122 days ago

Representing the 3 pillars of video games. Myst. Power Glove. Macho Man Randy Savage.

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quest64official.bsky.social•122 days ago

This is nothing short of amazing, thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️

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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social•122 days ago

quest sixty-thank you

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quest64official.bsky.social•122 days ago

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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dk1105.bsky.social•121 days ago

Came up with an odd question to play with the library. How many issues of PSM magazine mentions the Dreamcast by name? Out of all 130 issues 93 use the word Dreamcast at least once. 8 in the final year 2007. Obviously missing pre announcement. Yeah we're going to get some really cool research now.

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henren-98.bsky.social•122 days ago

Kelsey Lewin. Go girl.

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momgnew4rtg56.bsky.social•121 days ago

that's great news, making video game history accessible to all can help preserve the industry's heritage and educate new generations of gamers.

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immewnity.pidgi.net•121 days ago

Is there a way to directly download items from the digital archives? e.g. get the TIF file from https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/6b14495c-949f-4d67-b2f7-0563c971a92e ?

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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social•121 days ago

Not currently, BUT we did mirror the raw disk images of the GamePro CDs on the Internet Archive until we figured that out! (may require you to mess around with files/formats that are difficult to read on modern computers) https://archive.org/details/VGHF-gamepro-press-CDs

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robotortoise.com•121 days ago

you guys are so freaking cool

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immewnity.pidgi.net•121 days ago

Y'all rock!!

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gojirra.bsky.social•120 days ago

Do you have plans to make the entire archive available for download?

About how big is the digital archive?

Thanks so much for your hard work!

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sharonblady.bsky.social•122 days ago

This is incredible!

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scurvydog619.bsky.social•121 days ago

@unseenbox.bsky.social CHUGS needs to know about this,he'd go nuts.

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unseenbox.bsky.social•121 days ago

He absolutely does!

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notawizard1.bsky.social•122 days ago

Awesome!

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projectdolphin.bsky.social•121 days ago

Awesome work I love it.

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retrogamer20xx.bsky.social•121 days ago

So here I am, just y’know, casually flipping through issues of The Logical Gamer, like one does now in this modern world of wonders. 🥰

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gaston64.bsky.social•121 days ago

Hey trie this french website :
https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/index.php

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paganleo.bsky.social•122 days ago

congratulations! 🤘

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haste.bsky.social•121 days ago

This is rad af.

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heckh0und.bsky.social•122 days ago

Thank you so much for this, incredible work!!

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zigorously.bsky.social•122 days ago

I have so much Myst and Riven footage to watch now, let's go 😤

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lylescout.bsky.social•122 days ago

That's amazing. Great work!

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robotattack.bsky.social•122 days ago

Thank you 🙏

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miztanyabea.bsky.social•118 days ago

@stewdippin.bsky.social (p.s. Is this how we do this here? 😆)

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stewdippin.bsky.social•118 days ago

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miztanyabea.bsky.social•118 days ago

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catgirlfingies.quest•122 days ago

This is epic

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catgirlfingies.quest•122 days ago

Site is getting hit hard
It's crashing for me haha

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xenosns.bsky.social•122 days ago

congratulations!!!!

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brossentia.bsky.social•122 days ago

Oh no! I get a 502: Bad Gateway when trying to go to the library. Hoping it'll be back soon!

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kolyada.bsky.social•121 days ago

Congratulations!

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ds9official.singles•121 days ago

📌

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minitankmayhem.bsky.social•121 days ago

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keepthe7.com•122 days ago

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

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wiazzzard.bsky.social•122 days ago

Thank you for that from EU

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junoevermore.bsky.social•79 days ago

I’m about to head to GDC. Will anyone from your organization be there? And is there someone you can suggest for a radio interview about the history of video games?

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chozospartan.bsky.social•122 days ago

Heck yeah, preservation.

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jiveturkey.bsky.social•121 days ago

@docdropkick.bsky.social

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docdropkick.bsky.social•121 days ago

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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tcgamer.bsky.social•122 days ago

📌

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eugeneprunk.bsky.social•122 days ago

a treasure ✨

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crispyburris.bsky.social•121 days ago

So dope! What a breakthrough for games preservation!

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bodycamflorida.bsky.social•35 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/bodycamflorida.bsky.social/post/3lnrcyk4u522e

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adambyte.bsky.social•122 days ago

YES!!! Amazing work y'all! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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gamesbymanuel.bsky.social•122 days ago

Now we're cooking with gas!

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gojirra.bsky.social•120 days ago

@authorblu.es

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thadeshammer.bsky.social•121 days ago

I want to believe. /genuine

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moonhotel.bsky.social•122 days ago

📌

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megamoses.bsky.social•122 days ago

Gonna read some Gex Wire later

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danthefool21.bsky.social•121 days ago

Do you accept physical donations? Magazines, strategy guides etc.? I've got some stuff lying around.

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gargaj.umlaut.hu•122 days ago

For a given value of "everyone" 😅

(Yeah I know, but it's still funny.)

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impossible.bsky.social•122 days ago

https://archive.gamehistory.org linked in the youtube video works for me

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ryuto.quizmagic.academy•122 days ago

That also doesn't work for me sadly

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speedlolita.bsky.social•122 days ago

cool where do I download super mario bros?

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sirverdyh.bsky.social•121 days ago

Such an amazing work! 🫡
I'M GONNA READ ALL OF THIS!

jk, but I will use it a lot for sure

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lordbtb1.bsky.social•121 days ago

My generation was the last to play outdoors. First to play indoors.

With ‘tennis’ if you sat on the left side of the tv, you’d always win. Due to how your brain worked the paddle.

Those were the days.

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ghengiskhant.bsky.social•122 days ago

Incredible, thank you so much

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andyk250.bsky.social•121 days ago

📌

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agentm.bsky.social•122 days ago

this rules

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gamesline.net•121 days ago

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astral-anxiety.bsky.social•121 days ago

Bookmarking so I can look at it later 👀📌

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k-she-he-they.bsky.social•122 days ago

I am forever an axis-inverter thanks to playing a lot of Zaxxon on a ColecoVision at the dawn of my gaming.

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joebazz.bsky.social•121 days ago

I've lived it. Was one of the nerd kids gathered up in the back room of Radio Shack when they unboxed the first CGA video card. 3 Fucking colors!!! Gaming would NEVER be the same!!

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projectgoemon.bsky.social•121 days ago

Very disappointing. 😑

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projectgoemon.bsky.social•121 days ago

Seriously, though, there’s some fascinating resources here. At the very least, take a look at the promotional material for Legend of the Mystical Ninja. See if you can spot some differences vis-a-vis the original art and how they would market the game later.

https://library.gamehistory.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/9266

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battletankbob.bsky.social•121 days ago

Oh wow, unlocked hidden memory of that first image.

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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social•121 days ago

Oh, but check: https://archive.gamehistory.org/search?keyword=goemon

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projectgoemon.bsky.social•121 days ago

Sorry. Maybe that joke came across as a bit meaner than I intended (and now I’m a bit worried that my threads are not visible), but thank you so much for all the work you are doing.

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mamamaji.bsky.social•121 days ago

That's neat as heck!

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tokeffyhn.bsky.social•113 days ago

📌

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a-ria.bsky.social•121 days ago

@foushe.bsky.social

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deux036.bsky.social•121 days ago

📌

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hobbesvoltaire.bsky.social•121 days ago

Merry Christmas 2.

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abewust.bsky.social•122 days ago

Gen X says Thank You!

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battletankbob.bsky.social•121 days ago

Hellyea
@gexfacts.bsky.social https://archive.gamehistory.org/search?keyword=gex&sortField=title&sortDir=asc

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kotbox.net•122 days ago

Incredible work. VGHF is one of the coolest groups out there. So exciting to see this launch!

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cpi.bsky.social•121 days ago

Is this link broken for anyone else or just me?

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amtrax.bsky.social•122 days ago

Is there any way that we can help with maintaining/contributing to this incredible resource?

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aklim95.bsky.social•121 days ago

Will European game magazines be preserved as well, or only American and Japanese ones?

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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social•121 days ago

We have some European magazines in there at launch! (Mega, Super Play, etc.) We have fewer European magazines in our physical collection since we're on the west coast in the US, but we acquire them when we're able

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aklim95.bsky.social•121 days ago

I'm specifically looking for Official UK PlayStation Magazine (all 108 issues) and Official PlayStation 2 Magazine UK.

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pedrossauro.bsky.social•120 days ago

Is there anything "EarthBound 64 related" there...?

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jtsknight92.bsky.social•122 days ago

Hell yeah!

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0llymelancholy.com•122 days ago

Congratulations! 👏

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giacco.bsky.social•122 days ago

@liamrobertson.bsky.social seems like something you would use!

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saturnjaguar.bsky.social•122 days ago

From the VHGF Digital Archive: I was excited to see the publicity folder for Atlus' Print Club from when the "Dream Entertainment" U.S. subsidiary was launched to bring the machine overseas! The document has info on licenses (i.e. Sanrio), merch and a newsletter that discusses early performance.

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philsalv.bsky.social•122 days ago

@book-historia.bsky.social Your donation at work!

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book-historia.bsky.social•122 days ago

Omg!!!!! I’m so glad it’s already been useful! :D

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cpi.bsky.social•121 days ago

I love that feeling when a researcher digs through materials you've prepped and they find something awesome

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pixeldth.bsky.social•122 days ago

Congratulations to the team! Thank you for all the hard work

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videogamecanon.bsky.social•122 days ago

Congratulations! And thanks for allowing me to volunteer to help test the library. It was an honor!

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pyonpyonyang.bsky.social•122 days ago

📌

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seelesaid.bsky.social•122 days ago

If you're in Astoria you can see the real deal at.. Coastal Lock and Key where they have the evolution of game machines from pinball to Astroids and Pac-Man
(Oregon)

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thedorksdelight.bsky.social•122 days ago

Congratulations!

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spineflu.bsky.social•122 days ago

hey i get a 502 error [bad gateway] when trying to follow the link from the blog post [library.gamehistory.org]; is that a high demand issue or?

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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social•122 days ago

Yep, things are under a lot of stress right now. We're able to load it right now, try again later. You can also access the digital archive side of it directly: https://archive.gamehistory.org

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