Video Game History Foundation

ICYMI: VGHF's collab with iam8bit, Mega Cat Studios, and Retrotainment Games on Chris Oberth’s long-lost NES game Xcavator is currently in (cartridge!) stock on iam8bit's website: iam8bit.com/products/xcava… (Profits go to us, hurray.)

This humorous illustration from Marvel's short-lived Blip magazine in 1983 (archive.gamehistory.org/item/da656e05-…) miiight have been goofing on the number of Pac-Man spinoffs already in the market, huh?

Today's random pull from the VGHF Digital Archive: this binder was sent to retailers in 2004 to promote new titles and hardware from Nintendo: archive.gamehistory.org/item/e2698eaf-…

This week on the Video Game History Hour podcast, we checked in with our team about what we've been up to so far this year. Featuring the podcast debut of our new fundraising manager, Meera Swanson! gamehistory.org/episode-159-q1…

1990's Buck Rogers: Countdown To Doomsday saw SSI adapt the classic comic & TTRPG into a complex tactical video game RPG.

This 1990 UK print ad from the VGHF archives is for the evocative Eye Of The Beholder-style first person RPG Captive.

Look, we don't make the rules, we're federally mandated to show you more VGHF-digitized Sega Channel fan art sent to Sega in the mid '90s: archive.gamehistory.org/item/9709692d-…

This pre-U.S. release tease for the Nintendo 64 (printed in Nintendo Power in the Summer of 1996) trails it as 'fun'. Also, 'fun'. And finally, 'fun'. (Killer Instinct is the only game mentioned here, huh?)

Does the VGHF's Sega Channel-related archives from Michael Shorrock include fan-art sent to them in the mid-'90s? Darn right it does: archive.gamehistory.org/item/9709692d-…

A semi-forgotten mulitplayer expansion to a less-discussed portable spinoff (of a legendary franchise)? That would be 2007's Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus, seen here in this U.S. print ad.

We found a lost Indiana Jones adventure from LucasArts! But it probably isn't what you expect. Join Frank Cifaldi for a look at this newly discovered demo as Indiana Jones sets out on the "Quest for Paradise VGA"

Back in Summer 1996, Nintendo's poor old Virtual Boy got a price cut to $99 as it was being discontinued. (Ad via U.S. Nintendo Power.)

An ad from Aug/Sept. 2003's XBN magazine, who remembers Digital Anvil's squad-based first-person shooter Brute Force? ('Only on Xbox'.)

ICYMI: we found "Indiana Jones and the Quest for Paradise VGA, the best ten-minute commercial you'll see this week." More over on VGHF's YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=HhTUUm…

Did Stan Lee turn up swiftly in Marvel's short-lived 1983 Blip game magazine? You bet he did, in Issue #2, with Spider-Man, to play Spider-Man on the Atari 2600: archive.gamehistory.org/item/a75803d8-…

Sanctuary Woods' interactive comic book adventure CD-ROM Victor Vector & Yondo: The Vampire's Coffin? Hot in 1992. (Or at least, available for sale in 1992.)

In the latest episode of the Video Game History Hour podcast, host Phil Salvador interviews Willem Hilhorst at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision on the Dutch Games Canon & more! gamehistory.org/episode-158-wh…

An important find from our library director Phil Salvador: "Beckett Massive Online Gamer had a feature called Skittle of the Month, where they would highlight player characters with rainbow armor."

Epyx's seminal dungeon crawler Temple Of Apshai got this less-discussed, more action-y 1983 follow-up, Gateway To Apshai. (Ad via the short-lived Computer Fun magazine - May 1984 edition.)

Writing in 1988, U.S. trade mag Computer Entertainer talks Xmas supply of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - "the amount that went out in that first shipment was enough to last maybe 20 minutes." (Full mag: archive.gamehistory.org/item/26b7f98c-… .)