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Video Game History Foundation
@GameHistoryOrg
Nonprofit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Directors: @frankcifaldi & @kelslewin Social media: @simoncarless.
Jul 10, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
An alarming 87% of classic video games released in the US are unavailable. Here’s why that matters.

gamehistory.org/87percent If you’re interested in old video games, this may not come as much of a shock to you. You probably realized long ago that your only options to enjoy most old games are finding and collecting vintage hardware, or…piracy!
Mar 17, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
LIVE NOW: Come hang out with us as we scan some vintage video game magazine covers! twitch.tv/gamehistoryorg Cover scanned: Computer Fun & Games #1
Dec 20, 2019 • 18 tweets • 16 min read
Thanks to you, 2019 was our biggest year ever. We built a library, spoke at conferences around the world, acquired some amazing objects, and even built a pop-up museum exhibit!

Look back and celebrate with some of 2019's game preservation highlights here: gamehistory.org/2019-year-in-r… To make our year-end retrospective a little more holiday-themed, let's count down The 12 Highlights of VGHF 2019, in no particular order. Thread:
Oct 10, 2019 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
The longer we stare at the "Sega Solar System" the more questions we have. Are planetoids clustered together in the Sega Solar System or did they just collide horribly?
Aug 2, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
As part of our quest to build a physical archive for video game history research, we're collecting video game magazines! There's a lot of issues we need - way more than we could possibly tweet - but this ongoing thread will highlight specific individual issues we're seeking: WANTED for our research library: Issue 2 of Electronic Game Player, from 1988. This was Steve Harris' publication prior to Electronic Gaming Monthly. It ran for only four issues...this is the last one we need to finish the set!