By The Big Magazine Staff
The Video Game History Foundation is offering everyone free early access to their newly launched digital archive of video game history research materials.
Originally announced in late 2023, the platform gives users access to various historic collections of video game development materials, magazines, artwork, ephemera and more.
There's over "1500 full-text searchable out-of-print video game magazines—including game industry trade magazines rarely available to the public which includes some never-before-seen game development materials.
Check out their announcement video below with Phil Salvador, Library Director at the Video Game History Foundation:
Established in 2017, the Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) works with the game development community to preserve design documents, press kits, artwork, video footage, correspondence, and other unique items from behind the scenes of game production.
The highlight of library's launch collection is the Mark Flitman papers. Flitman is a retired game producer who worked at companies like Konami, Acclaim, Midway, and Mindscape in the 90s and 2000s. He welcomed the Video Game History Foundation into his home and permitted the foundation to digitize and distribute the vast collection of documents and digital file backups he has stored in his basement for more than twenty years.
The launch of the VGHF Library also includes:
The first 100 CDs from the art and press release archives of GamePro magazine, reformatted to view in your browser.
Guidebooks and ephemera from video game events, including searchable directories and maps from the first 12 years of the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
An extensive international collection of FromSoftware promotional materials, collected by citizen archivist Kris Urquhart, with a blessing from From Software to donate them to our library!
And much more!
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