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shadsy

@shadsy@digipres.club

Game history librarian and CD-ROM enthusiast

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I think I have an academic article in me about the "peperony and chease" tombstone form The Oregon Trail as an artifact of the game industry's failures to preserve its own history

shadsy,
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@vga256 This? https://neilblr.com/post/42010272684

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It's happening. Next Thursday, I'm testifying to the Copyright Office in support of a new copyright exemption for game presentation, opposite the ESA.

Register to watch online! https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2024/

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Hey I'm talking at Code4Lib! We were so unhappy with our built-in DAM/catalog integration that we came up with our own solution. Hear from me and our tech director about how we basically DIYed our digital archive platform https://2024.code4lib.org/talks/integrating-digital-library-platforms-the-diy-approach

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Today, we're showing off the Video Game History Foundation's digital library platform for the first time. This has been my main project for the last two years. I'm really proud of this and excited to finally show people what we've been working on and where VGHF is going next

https://youtu.be/WUaUXAE1nTM

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VGHF is kicking off our annual fundraiser with a video game history advent calendar! Every day next month, we're sharing a cool treat from our collection.

Sign up for our mailing list and get them sent to you every day! OR, join our Patreon and get them a day early! Patrons can see the first treat right now, and it's real good

https://gamehistory.org/donate/

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VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 1:

We remastered the 1998 documentary The Making of Riven from the original master tape from Cyan. You've NEVER seen it at this quality before!

https://gamehistory.org/making-of-riven/

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VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 2:

We're sharing the only known surviving flyers for the Nintendo AVS, their first attempt to bring the Famicom stateside. It's an alternate timeline for game history!

https://gamehistory.org/nintendos-lost-8-bit-console/

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VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 3:

We dug up what might be one of the first magazine articles about retrogaming... from 1997! It's from an obscure magazine called Digital Diner, which is one of the 1200 game magazines we've scanned so far!

https://gamehistory.org/what-retro-gaming-was-like-in-the-1990s/

shadsy,
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I want to emphasize this: we have scanned 1200 video game magazines that weren't previously available online! When we get duplicate issues, if they aren't already scanned, we send them off to a local vendor.

Twelve hundred!!! And we have another 300-400 we need to send still!

https://gamehistory.org/what-retro-gaming-was-like-in-the-1990s/

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VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 4. Today's a big one:

Before Mario 64, before Star Fox, there was Eclipse, a prototype game that convinced Nintendo to jump into 3D.

30 years later, we found it.

https://gamehistory.org/eclipse-the-demo-that-sold-3d-to-nintendo/

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VGHF Fundraiser Day 5:

We unearthed 2½ HOURS of footage from E3 2000! Featuring Banjo-Tooie, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Dinosaur Planet, The Bouncer, the original Xbox, and so much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SekM6yD26Qc

Like what you see? Please donate to our fundraiser! https://gamehistory.org/donate

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VGHF Holiday Fundraiser Day 6:

Before GTA VI, there was GTA 1... and we dug up a photo from our press archives of the team that made it!

https://gamehistory.org/grand-theft-auto-1-development-team/

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VGHF Holiday Fundraiser Day 7:

Forget the Game Awards. Today, we're all about the 1999 Interactive Achievements Awards, available to watch for (we think) the first time!

https://gamehistory.org/1999-aias-awards/

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And here's a bonus: tonight at 5pm Pacific, I'm going to counterprogram the Game Awards by streaming the 1999 IAAs!

Will Ocarina of Time win Game of the Year? Who can say?!

https://www.twitch.tv/obscuritory

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VGHF Holiday Calendar Day 11:

In 1991, Konami commissioned an inspirational corporate anthem. We recovered it from a former Konami producer and did the only thing we could think of...

turn it into karaoke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbS-_KO5wsE

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(I missed a couple days, will go back and post them later, but I wanted to share this one now!)

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Whoops, lost the thread a little here! To play catchup:

Day 12: We revealed previously lost levels from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfJ4uEcJJtA

Day 13: First look at the VGHF Library, coming next year! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUaUXAE1nTM

ashley, to random
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once again....................... pdfs

shadsy,
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@ashley @keen456 Digitally signing PDFs is the fakest non-functional thing in the world

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@shadsy Any chance the rest of the VGHF will make it over to this platform (or just the foundation account so folks can tag the foundation in things?)

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@keen456 Sorry, not sure what other platforms people prefer to use! We're all adjusting to this new world of social media still

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@shadsy Came across this awesome collection of Lunar Lander materials: https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/LunarLander.html

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@keen456 Really cool! I never thought of Brandeis as a place for this kinda research

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@shadsy Have you seen this yet about the Ultima Online mobile game on Japan? https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110936856732871284

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@keen456 I haven't! Whoa

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Anyone have recommendations for film digitization shops in the Dallas area? Trying to help someone who wants to digitize a 35mm and is looking for a local vendor

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🌟 Turn-On was a television show that was so bad, most affiliates stopped airing it half-way through the first episode. Or was it?!

Buried for over 50 years, the first episode has surfaced — along with a second, never-aired episode.

Now's your chance. Was it bad, or truly ahead of its time? Watch both episodes today, on my blog: https://cabel.com/2023/08/06/turn-on-found/

shadsy,
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@cabel Holy shit I've been waiting to watch this for decades

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@cabel Wow this is unwatchable

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