Video Game History Foundation

This 2000 U.S. print ad is for sometimes overlooked Sega 'arcade to Dreamcast' racer F355 Challenge: Passione Rossa.

Firaxicon 2014 was a company-run fan convention for Firaxis Games, creators of the Civilization and XCOM franchises, and VGHF has a small media collection from it, including a welcome letter & office tour photos: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a7253e2…

We missed it by a few days, but yes, via Vidiot magazine, Atari set Pac-Man Day on April 3rd, 1982. (And presumably every year since?)

'Prepare to fly'. Sonic Team's classic Saturn game NiGHTS into Dreams... got this very tease-y ad in 1996's Intelligent Gamer.

Another great pictorial from rock magazine Creem spinoff Vidiot (1982-1983), here's the B-52s' Kate Pierson, posing with classic arcade machine Centipede.

Before the design was finalized on the NES that we know today, NOA's Lance Barr came up with this awesome sleek design. Learn more about the journey from the Famicom to the NES here: youtu.be/uJvpRGibFhg

This 1991 Electronic Boutique brochure includes some classic standalone handhelds, including Nintendo's Game & Watch Super Mario Bros and Simpsons & Turtles handhelds: archive.gamehistory.org/item/c7e09a97-…

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Jumping Flash 2 vs. the Space Shuttle? This 1996 U.S. print ad in Intelligent Gamer suggests you can 'achieve a safe, unnatural high' via the cult PlayStation game.

VGHF has added short-lived Creem spinoff Vidiot (1982-1983), including some great 'rock stars x arcade machines' pictorials like John Cougar (Mellencamp): archive.gamehistory.org/folder/bd57848…

Here's the 1989 stickers (& brochure!) which Asmik introduced themselves to the U.S. market with - archive.gamehistory.org/item/32c10a48-… - spoiler, they didn't stick around for too long, sadly. (Love Asmik's mascot 'Boomer', tho!)

Also part of the 1988 Capcom sales brochure we featured earlier this week: this ad for Gun.Smoke for NES: 'nonstop action just like the original arcade game'.

Also from VGHF's GamePro press CD collection, is the Clock Tower U.S. box cover one of the creepiest console game covers of all time? (We say yes.)

Some days you redefine an entire genre only to be told your control scheme is unplayable. Join @jtsknight92 as he explores Alien Resurrection, its legacy in the history of the FPS genre, and its critical reception. youtu.be/uM4PZhIzyvo

Stylish Nintendo 64 controller images? You'll be wanting the VGHF Library-archived Nintendo E3 1997 CD-ROM, then: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/99c1b25…

Capcom's 1988 'takes home the arcade challenge!' sales brochure - archive.gamehistory.org/item/23d9b329-… - was hyping the rise of the NES, forecasting $1 billion in retail game sales by the end of the year.

From the VGHF's GamePro press CD collection - archive.gamehistory.org/folder/591c646… - a wireframe of the 3D model for Miette from the (little-discussed) City Of Lost Children game released in 1997 by Psygnosis.

Less discussed than the 1992 Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe, the 2003 'spiritual sequel' Secret Weapons Over Normandy used spiky German to hype the imagined WWII air battles...

Historian Alex Smith (author and host of They Create Worlds) joins us for the latest Video Game History Hour podcast to challenge the prevailing “Genesis does what Nintendon’t” narrative in the early '90s: gamehistory.org/episode-154-se…

Famed fighting game stick company Hori was advertising like this in U.S. magazines back in 1995. (Did they pick a small kid so the joysticks looked huuuuuge?)