Hi backers! It's been a while since I did any kind of "behind-the-scenes" post, so I thought I'd show you a quick little thing I worked on today.
The following are slides that Sega included in a cir...
2018-05-10 01:51:27 +0000 UTC View Post
How do you advertise the first video game ever sold, when nobody knows what a video game is yet?
That was the challenge faced by Nutting Associates in 1972, when the original Computer Space deb...
Hi all! Here's a quick backer-only update from the VGHF Top Secret Storage Unit to show you a massively cool donation we just received: just about everything that remained of GamePro magazine, straigh...
2018-03-06 19:44:54 +0000 UTC View Post
So after yesterday's discovery of an undocumented Spinnaker game hiding in a pile of 90s GIFs (you did read that, didn't ...
2018-02-08 21:25:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Something pretty fun happened yesterday that I wanted to share with you all: a bot on Twitter accidentally provided the clue that finally solved a 28-year-old mystery about a DOS game that never shipp...
2018-02-07 22:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to a VERY GENEROUS donor, we were recently able to acquire something of a holy grail for me and my scanner: an original 1983 promotional handbill from Nintendo, advertising the games that were ...
2018-01-31 00:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I'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 begin...
2018-01-16 20:30:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! I'm working on a big article about the unreleased NES version of SimCity, but since it's coming together a little slower than I expected, I thought I'd send along some screenshots to whet your...
2018-01-03 00:49:57 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
All of the $25+ backers should know this by now, as I've emailed them separately, but I wanted everyone else to know that we're going to have a special year-end Google Hangout t...
2017-12-12 20:46:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons! I'm really happy to debut the first in a new series that has come from our Writing Fund: an ongoing spotlight on the contributions of women throughout video game history, written by freela...
2017-12-08 20:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
As most of you have probably heard by now, Patreon had a recent policy change. For the specifics, 2017-12-08 20:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! The latest result of our Writing Fund is here, and it's the first in a series of tutorials on researching video game history:
Here's the latest entry from our recently launched Writing Fund: The first in a continuing series of Review Roundups.
The premise here is pretty simple: Using our reference library - as well as digi...
2017-11-03 23:05:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Come hang out with The Video Game History Foundation this weekend at Portland Retro Gaming Expo.
We're attending (in an official capacity) for the second year in a row. And this time we're bringing ...
2017-10-16 18:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I'm really proud to publish the first result from our Writing Fund today - a totally comprehensive deep dive ...
2017-10-11 19:07:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to your generous donations, the VGHF now has this MASSIVE BEAST of a flatbed scanner. This is the Epson 10000XL, which does A3 scans (11.7" x 16.5"), which is double the size of our prior bed. ...
2017-09-27 18:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt's being widely-circulated that today is National Video Games Day. It's so widespread that as I write this, #VideoGamesDay is 2017-09-12 21:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
When we launched the Video Game History Foundation back in February, our goal was to make sure that researcher...
2017-08-09 16:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostHi again. I thought I'd do a little backer-only post showing you where your generous donations to the VGHF have gone!
After fees, we've taken home an amazing $9,964.23 since launching at the end of ...
2017-07-07 07:06:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! Thanks to your donations, our tech director Travis and I are sitting at an Airbnb in Minneapolis tonight, with a giant wall of vintage PlayStation review code separating us. As you might ...
2017-07-07 06:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi again! Quick update tonight, as I try to catch some sleep and get back to work early in the morning. My hotel room has a mysterious phantom dripping sound coming from somewhere in the general bathr...
2017-05-12 03:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings from Minneapolis! Or more specifically Plymouth, where the hotels are way cheaper.
Today marks the first day of a long overdue trip for us. About a year ago I started talking to Game Infor...
2017-05-11 03:27:42 +0000 UTC View PostOur second ever Town Hall-style monthly Google Hangout will be happening tonight at 5pm Pacific time! This is an exclusive perk for our $25-and-over donors, though I'm sending this reminder out ...
2017-04-24 19:39:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! It's monthly Hangout time!
Please mark your calendars for this Monday, April 24th, at 5pm Pacific for our second Town Hall Google Hangout chat. If you didn't go to the las...
2017-04-19 18:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! We've been full steam ahead since launching The Video Game Media Assets Collection earl...
2017-04-17 21:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to your help these past couple months, we've finally been able to start our largest ongoing project to date: The Video Game Media Assets Collection. We're archiving a collection of 400+ p...
2017-04-05 20:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to a very generous donor from Korea, we were recently given the very, very exciting opportunity to digitally archive Dooly Bravo Land, a 1992 game for the Nintendo Entertainment System released...
2017-03-15 21:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all, before we get started, THANK YOU SO MUCH! The donation response we saw last week has, I'm happy to say, met our internal goals for starting to build this dream into a full-fledged compan...
2017-03-07 20:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Our friends at IGN are being super gracious and hosting us for an extended stream starting at 12 PM Pacific on February 27th (our launch day). We'll be showing off some weird unreleased games and talk...
2017-02-27 05:28:36 +0000 UTC View Post