Video Game History Foundation
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Nonprofit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games.
Oakland, CA
Joined September 2016
VGHF is partnering with iam8bit and Mega Cat Studios to release Xcavator 2025, a never before seen NES game from the legendary Chris Oberth. 100% of profits go to VGHF! Pre-order: https://t.co/cqqhMIOIZT (Yes, we'll make the original prototype & source code available for free.)
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A bonus for our winter fundraiser: We’ve re-digitized a campy piece of NES history at the highest quality possible: https://t.co/qPuQdOCCY4
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It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able: https://t.co/dNu7jrwdjP
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VGHF's latest Video Game History Hour podcast features audio of our PRGE panel on the 40th anniversary of the NES launch, ft. Gail Tilden, Marketing; Bruce Lowery, Sales; and Lance Barr, Product Design: https://t.co/ri3bKP35zy
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Original B&W concept / promo art from Twisted Metal 3? We've got that too in the GamePro art CD archives: https://t.co/HiKtObsctE
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10 gallons a day. Zero infrastructure. Meet the WaterCube 10: the future of off-grid water.
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The Worlds Of Ultima spinoffs took the classic fantasy RPG in some different directions - and The Savage Empire (1990, based on the Ultima VI engine) went full Conan Doyle 'Lost World'.
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Also from the newly archived VGHF GamePro press CDs, this EA/Square collab disc - https://t.co/JbBur5u6lD - includes hi-res Parasite Eve promo images.
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Over on Patreon, our paid supporters get a preview of what we have coming in December! We're wrapping up the year with some fun content and a couple of surprises: https://t.co/96V8waGK47
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This Secret Of Monkey Island ad from 1991 includes details of the Monkey Island Treasure Hunt. What's that? Certain 3M diskette boxes (and a write-in offer) included a demo you could complete to win a cruise (or a sound card!)
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Thanks to our GamePro art CD archiving ( https://t.co/i2YUR37r8W), VGHF is preserving hi-res versions of, uh, Bruce Willis being a shoot-y CG guy in Neversoft & Activision's Apocalypse.
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Who remembers Eye Of The Beholder? This classic Westwood developed D&D-licensed first person dungeon crawler RPG debuted in 1991.
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The city was broke—but not broken. Drop Dead City, the 2025 documentary about NYC’s 1975 fiscal crisis, is out now. Don’t miss this smart, gripping and unexpectedly poignant story of urban survival, now streaming on all major platforms!
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Digital Eclipse just released new DLC for Atari 50, covering Namco ports for Atari platforms. And... hey, what's this? That's Computer Entertainer, the game magazine we released into the Creative Commons this summer! It's already being used in commercial game history projects...
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Good news - VGHF now has (we _believe_!) every single issue of PCGames magazine, latterly called Electronic Entertainment, then PC Entertainment, then PC Games again (!) More info over on Patreon: https://t.co/SmDf9aIxQ6
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Ah, more hi-rez art from the GamePro archives - we believe this is from Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998)? (Source: https://t.co/MkeBj9Qp9H.)
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Remember when game companies used magazines to help hire? Back in 2008, this ad in Game Developer magazine suggested you apply to work at a (pre-Fortnite, post-Unreal) Epic Games: https://t.co/XEx1PBbtyL
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What's that? Some nice Rival Schools (Capcom fighting game) character art from a 1998 GamePro magazine backup? Don't mind if we do! https://t.co/chI6nETjl4
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More art gems from our expanded GamePro press CD collection - https://t.co/i2YUR37r8W - as picked by Deeb on BSky - can you identify all 4?
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Thanks to a generous donation, we've completed our digitized collection of E3 directories from 1995–2006. Every booth, every company, every map. 2400 pages: https://t.co/RqlxhspKu4
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In our latest Video Game History Hour podcast, let’s learn what made our Library Director, Phil Salvador, into Phil Salvador! Producer Robin Kunimune sat down with Phil to discuss his path to video game library greatness: https://t.co/E2uIyNbZMW
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Another great user find from our GamePro magazine archival art CDs - Painiac found this prototype of the Twisted Metal 2 cover. (Similar idea, different execution!)
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