A year and a half ago @frankcifaldi and I sat on the floor of a Minneapolis hotel room and tried to write down everything we thought VGHF was capable of, what we were good at, and what we believed was needed. I’m excited we’re finally able to express those ideas w this relaunch.
We got better at explaining what we do, and our vision for the future since then. We don’t want to just preserve stuff — we want a world where everyone is inspired to discover and celebrate video game history. We want more books, more documentaries, and more stories shared.
Anyways a website relaunch/new logo isn’t groundbreaking, but it’s the beginning of a lot of new exciting things that I hope you’ll stay tuned for. Thanks for all of your love, and if you feel compelled to support, there’s a lot of ways to do so: GameHistory.org/donate 💙💗🧡
(Btw those notes scribbled on Townplace Suites notepads live at the VGHF Library in their own VGHF history box because we’re forward-thinking historians dammit)
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With expensive Nintendo stuff in the news lately, I wanted to share a very special but totally unassuming accessory in my collection.
Let me introduce you to one of the rarest official Nintendo accessories of all time: the Nintendo GameCube SD Card Adapter!
But first let me take you back to the year 2000, where Nintendo showed off the GameCube publicly for the very first time at that year’s Space World.
Press releases stated there would be two options for memory storage — 4MB memory cards, or 64MB SD Card Adapter cards.
The SD card adapter showed up again in 2001 at CES — things were looking good!
But then Nintendo just kinda stopped talking about it. When the GameCube was released later that year, there was no longer any mention of the SD card adapter.