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We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest project: preserve.games, a browsable catalog of organizations, museums, projects and communities dedicated to video game preservation! If you've ever wondered how to get involved or where you can learn more, this is the site for you!

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

So here you go ... Thank you again to my friends at both BioWare and EA. To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO8...

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

Late sharing this, but what’s a month after a few decades of waiting? Thanks to the efforts of @niema.net we’ve finally got a way to decode the Nintendo GameCube .VID codec! More info to come soon, plus an interview with Niema about his work! Thanks so much for all the help!

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In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

That’s not just a good title slide for a presentation, this absolute legend just delivered an entire presentation rhymed exactly like a Dr Seuss book. Anyone know any illustrators who can draw in the Seuss style? This deserves to be illustrated and printed. Well done, Ethan!

Time For the talk!!

Shoutout to documentarian and Hit Save collaborator @gamedocs.bsky.social for the deep dive into Brøderbund and highlighting how valuable it is for researchers to be able to access historical records and artifacts. Kudos to the Strong Museum for maintaining such incredible collections! #SaveTheGames

Thank you Phil, not only for a great talk but for the added reassurance that prioritization of your time and getting things “good enough” is ok! Perfection can be the enemy of progress, and we all have a lot of things to balance! Also that Pokémon card is top notch 🏆

MIKE JONES FOR SMASH

Shoutout to our board member @unabandonware.bsky.social for an awesome presentation at #SaveTheGames at the Strong Museum of Play!

I'll be presenting at Save the Games on Thursday! Come hear me talk about our triage strategy for processing assets for our digital archive

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

On the Video Game History Hour podcast: to celebrate our new E3 collections, we sat down with long-time E3 organizer Carolyn Rauch and IDSA founder Doug Lowenstein for a rare joint interview about the origins of E3. Hear the story of E3 from the people who started it!

Ever wonder what it was like to experience a 3D game for the first time? We dug into our E3 tapes and found footage of the US press getting their first hands-on with Super Mario 64 at E3 1996

Come for the E3 collections, stay for the Conker's Quest footage 🌰🐿️ youtu.be/9VeLhqbXNf4?...

This is huge. Awesome work @frankcifaldi.bsky.social @philsalv.bsky.social and the rest of the VGHF team!

We're launching a big new collection in our digital archive tomorrow! Sign up to our email list to get notified when it drops

This looks perfectly normal...maybe we played different versions?

Digitizing footage from e3 1995, fun seeing SNES Doom next to MK3 at the Williams booth. Behind their booth is a CD-i booth though.

*36th birthday (released in 1990) But yeah, Solstice rules! One of those childhood "enigma games" that I took the time to finally learn and play through more recently (with hand-drawn maps). Cool to see in-development footage! Also, amazing Japanese box art by Naoyuki Katoh:

Shadax if the Solstice devs had more courage (and fewer palette restrictions?) The dude leveled STR and INT, why hide it? 😂

There is my life before Bastion and after Bastion, which made its debut on Xbox Live Arcade 20 July 2011. Without it, Supergiant Games doesn't exist. I recorded the game's 3000ish lines of VO here in Darren Korb's bedroom over the course of about 14 months. Happy 15 to our scrappy little video game.

Just over a week away!!

per @tcrf.net , this is a stock asset included in the Gamecube SDK. so it showed up in multiple titles (even a few Wii games!) tcrf.net/The_Cutting_...

It's Friday, time to post the stupidest thing in our whole collection Ubisoft's Webby Award nomination for "Burp"

Keitai Archive has uploaded its collection of i-mode ringtones to the Internet Archive, which include a few ringtones officially distributed by #Nintendo! These were likely lost to time until now. There are also a lot of great fanmade ringtone arrangements of game/anime songs.

It's been one of those weeks where I am so freakin proud of the team at VGHF. We're doing a lot with our resources, it's having a major impact on the field, and we're feeling the momentum of that success