Video game ads became especially perplexing in the early 2000s, when ‘80s babies were old enough to have warm and fuzzy memories of Super Mario Bros.As a result, video game studios didn’t need ...

The Video Game History Foundation's subscription service sends you vintage video game magazines, while you help preserve even more retro issues. The post You Can Get Vintage Video Game Magazines ...

But the Video Game History Foundation has just launched a new, free to use website that will let you dig through decades of old game magazines, press kits, advertisements, and more.

Advertising can be a nuisance, but it also has the power to take you back in time — as this massive Flickr album filled with classic video game ads proves. The album is nostalgic for two reasons.

Imagine flipping through a magazine in 1996. ... Nintendo didn't have a lock on the bizarre video game ads market, ... And a crazy dance remix of the ridiculously catchy music from the classic game.

Even into the 2000s, the imagery in video game ads was as abstract as it was in the early ‘80s, drawing on a weird visual language that descends almost entirely from the dawn of the medium and ...

Magazine articles aren’t the only content available in the Video Game History Foundation’s digital library. Event guides and ephemera from numerous gaming events like the first 12 years of E3 ...

Classic video game magazines are a retro goldmine. | Bryan Ochalla, Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0 ... Each issue was packed with coverage and ads, getting players excited for what was coming next.

In 2013, I was just starting to really get paid to write about video games. Video game magazines were drying up, but I wanted to know about the history of my field and get a sense of where the ...

Video Game History Foundation Puts Digital Stash Of Classic Gaming Magazines Online Next Week Get some quality reading material for free next week thanks to the VGHF'S preservation efforts.

From Gamers Magazine is a crowd-funded video game magazine by gamers, for gamers that's printed on actual paper. You should check it out. Newsletters Amazon Prime Day Share a News Tip ...

That fate, sadly, isn't an anomaly — most classic video games can't be played on today's hardware. A new study from The Video Game History Foundation finds that only 13% of titles produced ...