The Sega Channel was a way to play Sega Genesis games downloaded via cable connection - here's a contemporary 1995 ad for the service. [Ad scan via the VGHF Library.]
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I'm really liking this monthly retro magazine subscription from . This month it's a brand new copy of the first issue of Game Player's magazine! Thanks and ! An awesome way to support the Video Game History Foundation 🙌
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Why game archivists are dreading this month’s 3DS/Wii U eShop shutdown arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03 by / @KyleOrl@mastodon.social
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Goofy ad for Tia Carrere-starring '90s CD-ROM The Daedalus Encounter on 3DO? Certainly. [Ad scan via the VGHF Library.]
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Doing research in the library and found this surprising press release, in which Squaresoft says it will ship *four* SNES games in 1995 -- Evermore, Chrono, and two unannounced games. First time I have ever heard of this.
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Thank you so much for supporting our work on Patreon and celebrating our birthday with us! 🎉
And…congratulations to Emmanuel Z. for winning this issue of Nintendo Power #1!
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Last chance to get some stickers, and win a copy of Nintendo Power #1, all while supporting video game history preservation!
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We’ll pull the winner today at 5pm pacific time, and stickers will go in the mail tomorrow. Thank you so much for your support!
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Despite what Super Mario Bros. 3 tells you, tanuki can't fly. They also don't have ringed, raccoon-style tails. Was SMB3 so popular it changed perception of the tanuki? I've got 7,000 words looking into exactly this.
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Last chance to get some stickers, and win a copy of Nintendo Power #1, all while supporting video game history preservation!
Patreon.com/gamehistoryorg
We’ll pull the winner today at 5pm pacific time, and stickers will go in the mail tomorrow. Thank you so much for your support!💙
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There’s still time to celebrate our birthday! So far only 77 patrons provided their address, so if you support us on Patreon now, you’ll not only get stickers — you’ve got a good shot at winning a deaccessioned copy of Nintendo Power #1 from our archive!
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'It's the thought that kills!' Taito's slightly surreal PlayStation 1 3D fighting game came to the U.S. via Acclaim in 1997. [Ad via the VGHF Library.]
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Having just returned, and host Frank Cifaldi bring us the best stories, both old and new, from the annual DICE Summit. Parties, scoops, golf scores, and more! Listen here and you'll even get the beat on the best games stores in Las Vegas: gamehistory.org/ep-105-the-d-i
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While the Bally Professional Arcade (later sold by Astrocade) never made much of a commercial splash, the breadth and strength of its user community ensured it saw a massive amount of games and programs. Learn all about this unique system in my new video:
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One of the standout 'weird' games of the PC CD-ROM era, Pulse Interactive's 1996 ame Bad Mojo is loosely based on Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis.
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We don’t plug our Patreon often, but it’s absolutely one of the best ways to support our mission. All the preservation work we do is funded by individual donors who believe in saving and sharing video game history as much as we do.
We quite literally couldn’t do it without you!💙
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There’s still time to celebrate our birthday! So far only 77 patrons provided their address, so if you support us on Patreon now, you’ll not only get stickers — you’ve got a good shot at winning a deaccessioned copy of Nintendo Power #1 from our archive!
Patreon.com/gamehistoryorg
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Just some of our main VGHF Library collection (which we're currently cataloging in detail!) Support our continued work via Patreon: patreon.com/gamehistoryorg
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We are on the lookout for additional issues of the Nintendo Power "Official Game Pak Directory" monthly update! If you have any, please let us know.
Note that we are NOT looking for the March/April 1989 edition in the second photo, this one is common. Looking for any others.
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We added a few new pieces of VGHF gear to our website! Who knew supporting video game history could be so stylish?
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Last week was our birthday, but there’s still plenty of time to help us celebrate (and get some stickers if you want?)
We don’t plug our Patreon often, but it’s one of the best ways to support our work! patreon.com/gamehistoryorg
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It's our birthday! The Video Game History Foundation has spent the last 6 years preserving and sharing video game history, all thanks to your help!
If you support our org on Patreon by 3/12 (at any tier), we'll send you VGHF stickers in the mail for free!
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American football star Bob Golic was (oddly) used to promote the Light Boy magnifier/light for the OG Game Boy in this 1991 U.S. print ad from the VGHF Library.
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“When I first started in games magazines, the internet was a kind of goofy thing and advertisers were reluctant to pump dollars into it.”
Within a decade most of those magazines would be gone. Read the inside story 👉 forgottenworlds.net/internet-kille
🌴☀️ 🐳 #retrogames #RETROGAMING
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Core Design's sequel to caveman platformer Chuck Rock went... junior, back in 1993. [U.S. print ad scan via the VGHF Library.]
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It took a long time for one to pop up, but I finally got the December 1982 issue of Black Enterprise so I could re-scan better photos of video game pioneers Jerry Lawson and Ed Smith. Feel free to use these upgrades!
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Who remembers 1992's Day Dreamin' Davey for the NES, as created by Sculptured Software and HAL America? Almost nobody? It did exist, though! (Print ad scan via the VGHF Research Library.)
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Someone sent me a HUGE cache of Time-Out Amusement financials circa 1978-1983. They are from various arcade locations. They tell a fascinating story not just in sale figures but of regional tastes. This stuff is gold to me. It tells a true story of how and what people played.
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It's our birthday! The Video Game History Foundation has spent the last 6 years preserving and sharing video game history, all thanks to your help!
If you support our org on Patreon by 3/12 (at any tier), we'll send you VGHF stickers in the mail for free!
patreon.com/gamehistoryorg
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We dig this weirdly abstract U.S. print magazine ad, advertising 1995's Mortal Kombat 3. (Was it effective, we wonder? Ad via the VGHF Library.)
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Wrapping up February, today we have what I believe is the oldest Shigeru Miyamoto interview available online: a candid 1986 conversation between Miyamoto and Namco/Game Studio legend Masanobu Endo!
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Even better, we're a 501(c)3 nonprofit, so your Patreon support is tax deductible in the US.
You can learn more about exactly what you help us do by supporting us here:
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Thank you for believing in our mission. ❤️
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We don't push our Patreon very often, but it's one of the best ways to support our mission. VGHF is funded almost entirely by individual donors who care about video game history -- monthly pledges keep us stable and able to plan for the future.
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It's our birthday! The Video Game History Foundation has spent the last 6 years preserving and sharing video game history, all thanks to your help!
If you support our org on Patreon by 3/12 (at any tier), we'll send you VGHF stickers in the mail for free!
patreon.com/gamehistoryorg
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This U.S. print ad for 2001's first 'beyond PlayStation' Crash platformer - Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex - has a weird 'juicing' angle, but sure? [Ad scan via the VGHF Library.]
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Grab some popcorn and let's talk about the 1989 Legend of Zelda cartoon with . Learn about the Shakespearean wild west of the Duoforce and a sword that didn't sword. Find out what we mean and so much more in episode 103: gamehistory.org/ep-103-the-leg
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The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA massivelyop.com/2023/02/25/the #infinitecrisis
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This ad scanned from the VGHF Library features Starship Titanic, an ambitious (if flawed) 1998 PC adventure game CD-ROM from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams.
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This week we have an excellent career retrospective interview with Nintendo veteran Satoru Okada! He mainly focuses on the GB/GBC/GBA developments, peppered with interesting anecdotes of fellow luminaries Gunpei Yokoi, Hiroshi Yamauchi, and Satoru Iwata.
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This U.S. print magazine ad from the '90s says you can get a free CD-ROM demo of Eric Chahi's cinematic 2D platformer Heart Of Darkness if you... redeem coupons from eating Gummi Savers candy? One of the weirdest team-ups in the VGHF Library.
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Rather than 'free Disney+', phone companies were bundling boxed video games all the way back in the early '90s? This VGHF-scanned U.S. Sprint ad offers free Sierra games if you switch to the phone company's long distance service!
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This Tuesday we team up with to present an all new documentary on the development and legacy of Star Fox for Super Nintendo directed by ! Featuring brand new interviews and a never before seen surprise!
Trailer: youtu.be/FHcy8zEMqBk
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How far is the VGHF willing to go to collect video game-related magazines? All the way to buying 1995's Collector MilkCaps Illustrated magazine - with Sonic on the cover, of course.
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