A year-long search for a lost video game pioneer comes to a happy conclusion today.
It is our honor and privilege to introduce you to Van Mai, the innovator who brought female representation to home video games 40 years ago.
gamehistory.org/wabbit/
Nintendo's lost NES game has finally been recovered and archived.
For the first time in over twenty-seven years, this is the original 8-bit version of SimCity.
gamehistory.org/simcity
RECOVERED: Here are the original PR screenshots from Super Mario 64's public debut at Shoshinkai 1995! These were discovered in the layout files of GamePro magazine.
EarthBound's original scripting files were lost 25 years ago, when they were deleted off of @CarriedAwayGame's original floppy disk. Or were they?
After a forensic analysis, these files were recovered, revealing brand new secrets about the game.
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From our collection of press materials, here's the original "boy" and "girl" art sent to video game magazines and websites to use in their coverage of the original Animal Crossing nearly 20 years ago. Whatever happened to the horns?
The bad news is that nobody has Sega's unreleased VR headset from the 90s, not even us.
The good news is that we emulated it anyway, along with one of its unreleased games. For the first time in 27 years, here's Sega VR, running on a modern headset. gamehistory.org/segavr
Today the Xbox 360 Marketplace shuts down for good, taking hundreds of games and DLC off the market, with no legal way to access them. We're working to fix copyright law for game preservation, but for now, we figured a cake wouldn't hurt. 🎂
