Although the video game industry has been huge and exists for decades, studying its history is complex because of No tools and resources, as well as legal headaches. But Video Game History Foundation He has just launched a novel, free apply of a site that will allow you to go through the decades of aged magazines, press sets, advertising and many others. It is planned to develop this tool with a higher content in the future to facilitate the view of the history of video games.
On January 30, VGHF announced That his digital long -term library was now live for everyone. The non-profit organization has been working on it since 2017, collecting programming documents, behind-the-scenes content and occasional video games magazines. And now, after high challenging work, the VGHF library is open to the audience and is amazing.
With novel VGHF libraryYou can go through over 1,500 problems of aged video games, including popular ones EGM, game guide, AND Gamepro and also less known publications, such as Girls AND Digital Diner.
Not only can you view these magazines for free on your computer, but you can also search all using keyword search and filter the results. Do you want to look for a specific game and see aged stories about her? You can do it! Do you want to check stories about the industry icon? Just search their name. You can even filter the years and types of content to get really specific. It is a powerful tool that will lend a hand researchers and historians for many years.
“Our library is a future home for all our collections,” said Phil Salvador, director of the VGHF library. “We are in this for a long time and for the coming years we will add even more materials to our archive and adding novel functions to our library system. If you want to learn more about what we have in our library, Our catalog has additional information about items that are not yet digitally available, and even Materials that we have not processed. “
And if you are wondering if all this is legal or the publishers of these magazines will come with lawyers to take them off, Founder and director of VGHF Frank Cifaldi He explained that the team has “legal assistance on call” in case it happened.
“We work in what we all consider to be allowed to apply materials outside of printing,” said Cifaldi to BlueSky. “A vast part of the DMCA removal for vintage video games in places such as the online archive was that they were paid communities, not digital copies of books and magazines that they actually have. We have almost all of them, and when we don’t do it, we have a record who does it. “
If you want to lend a hand VGHF continue this amazing job, You can transfer money to them using this site. And you should, because the history of video games is crucial and there are not many people who do challenging work to keep it like VGHF.
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