The library of the Video Game History Foundation opens its archives for the first time

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library.gamehistory.org – now in early access

Today Video Game History Foundation He announced the early launch of his digital archive, including magazines, catalogs, behind-the-scenes content and much more-and is completely free. VGHF has over 1,500 video games magazines, all of which are currently printed. You can even check industry trade magazines, which all of society rarely sees.

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A special point in the interest of these files is what VGHF calls Marek Flitman’s documents. Flitman is a retired producer of games with a career covering many companies, including Konami, Acclaim, Midway and Mindscape. He allowed VGHF to digitize more than two decades of the material for offspring, which gives viewers a peak in the game development scene at the turn of the 1990s and 2000.

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Fans Myst It will also find over 100 hours of material from the production of the series, including the original FMV content, most of which are planned to be included in the upcoming Myst document.

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During the Video Game Protection Crisis, the launch of this digital archive means that the history of one of the most popular entertainment in the world is much easier. Everyone is something for something, for example, the first 100 CDs from the Gamepro magazine archives, and even maps from the first 12 years E3.

The mission of the Video Game History Foundation is to introduce the history of video games “Return to life”. The non-profit organization collects and collects promotional materials, user manuals and much more for its research library, but VGHF also tries to keep the original source code for as many games as possible.

The Video Game History Foundation has provided a lot of its collection for free; Everything you can get to publicly does not pay off. You can also ask for specific materials, but the team warns that after starting it can be leisurely due to high demand.

Unfortunately, you can’t play video games in the archive. Copyright in the US means that sharing these files is a shadowy area, but VGHF claims that “the fight to change this right in coordination with the software protection community.”






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