New Video Game History 'Library' Lets You Dig Into Old Magazines, Books, Press Kits, And More For Free
One more video game thing has gone into “Early Access”—but the assets are fully-finished, and the nostalgia is very much real. For those of us who remember and cherish old video game media and assets, the Video Game History Foundation has launched the initial version of its library for the general public to browse.
“Ever since we started in 2017, the Video Game History Foundation has been building a digital library to help the study of video game history,” the press release by the VGHF reads. “We’ve been collecting development documents, behind-the-scenes content, rare video game publications and catalogs, magazines, memorabilia, ephemera, and more”
“After years of cataloging, processing, and digitizing our collections, we’re ready to open our (virtual) doors to the public for the first time.”
The library aims to collect, preserve, digitize, and display (when feasible) essentially anything and everything related to the video game industry. The obvious pickups here are video games, magazines, and other real-life media, but the VGHF says it’s really going for everything about the history of video games. That means press kits, development assets, video footage, press goodies, maps from E3s and other expos of years past, source code where and when possible, and more.
The announcement highlights two major chunks of information that classic gamers may find exciting. The first is an authorized collection of documents, images, recordings and more from Mark Flitman, who worked with top publishers such as Konami, Mindway, Atari, and more. There’s also a collection from Cyan of original assets from the hit series Myst, including digitized interviews with the Cyan team and FMV filmed footage.
This library is free and accessible to the public, with a basic search system that lets players—I mean, readers and browsers—search by keywords, dates, and asset type. The VGHF also promises a top-tier text recognition system that deciphers even the most unusual text, because we all
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