The hunt for the first video game commercial
Added 2018-01-16 20:30:15 +0000 UTCI'm so thrilled to finally be able to introduce the latest series from our Writing Fund: an ongoing, in-depth investigation into the history of video game advertising, starting at the very, very beginning.
Author Kate Willaert went out in search of the first video game commercial, and made some fascinating, undocumented discoveries along the way. Check it out here:
https://gamehistory.org/first-video-game-commercial/
This is exactly the kind of content we're hoping to not only generate more of, but encourage others to make. Kate used every resource available, including vintage news archives, material from the VGHF collection, eBay listings, private torrent trackers of vintage TV content, museum archives, YouTube uploaders, and in one instance, even figuring out when a 1972 game show was filmed.
As you can tell this one is really exciting for me, go have a look!
