The Video Game History Foundation’s immense collection is now available in early access for you to learn about an epic moment in gaming history — or simply peruse at your whim — for free.
VGHF is a nonprofit focusing on keeping and making available all resources pertaining to video games press. The library the foundation just made available ♔to the public contains over 1500 out-of-print gaming magazines and 30,000 files that have been scanned so hard you can even use the text search function on them.
The foundation’s previous announcement teased a bunch of surprises, and now we know that even the library’s early version is packed with amazing goodies:
- A put together by Kris Urquhart, that the people of FromSoft were totally cool with seeing shared online.
- Guides for many important game events, such as the 12 first years of E3.
- 100 CD-ROMS filled with GamePro magazine’s archives.
- An over-100-hour-long making of the Myst series.
- The , a long list of documents kept by Mark Flitman from the time he worked on big companies such as Konami and Acclaim.
VGHF is a non-profit organization, so all this is made possible by the contributions of people who want game history to stay accessible for all present and future generations of g𒈔amers. You can help ♛this cause
The library is now fully accessib♍le online . Still, be aware that you might encounter a few hiccups as a lot of people are likely to be accessing the site at the same time. All possible issues are likely to either go away by themselves or to get fixed as the archive leaves early access.
Published: Jan 30, 2025 04:58 pm