Industry Video Game History Foundation Launches Digital Archive

[Fire Queen]

if you didn't know there was a Video Game History Foundation, there is, and they do amazing work. one of my favorite offerings (even if i no longer subscribe to it) is a subscription where they send you an old video game magazine each month. it was magic.

well, they've taken it to the next level.

Home | Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital Archive

archive.gamehistory.org

it's not exhaustive (yet), but there are already hundreds of magazines and other things to thumb through. i particularly like going through the magazines and realizing just how far games journalism has come. here are some fun things from just one 2003 issue of EGM


i really wish this would have worked


do i need to know about the gameplay? of fucking course not. i need to know how hung rayman is.


this gaming device is so good you're going to want to impregnate it. with headphones. or something

i think i still have that death of mario flash still saved on my computer. also shouts out to fenslerfilm and those classic gi joe videos. last one there's a penis pump!

 

[Ben]

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this gaming device is so good you're going to want to impregnate it. with headphones. or something

As I once called out in answer to a teacher's question during a media studies class around 11 years old, "Sex sells!"

It's wild just how raunchy game ads used to be, though. They were 100% aiming for young men and that was it.

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i really wish this would have worked

Cheney definitely would have played with friendly fire turned on.

 

[Crystal]

Even archiving OXM, I had that from the preview issue through to about 2010. Saved them all and then ditched them. They were neat.

I love that people archive things like this