The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) launches its digital archive, offering unprecedented access to rare video game development materials, publications, and memorabilia.
This resource represents a significant step in the organization’s efforts to preserve gaming history. Since its founding in 2017, VGHF has focused on recovering, restoring, and archiving materials from the gaming industry. Digitizing the physical library expands access to these materials, making them more broadly available to researchers, historians, educators, and others.
The work of the VGHF is strengthened by gaming historians, collectors, and archivists who have contributed materials, including magazine scans, tradeshow and event guidebooks, promotional items, catalogs, production footage, and other materials. The VGHF library includes:
- never-before-seen game development materials
- artwork, press kits, and promotional content from iconic titles
- 1,500+ full-text searchable out-of-print video game magazines
- exclusive archival content from private collectors
The centerpiece of the launch collection is the Mark Flitman Papers. A former game producer, Flitman worked with companies such as Midway, Konami, Acclaim, Mindscape, and Atari in the 1990s and 2000s. His contributions include marketing plans, budgets, memos, licensing guides, and other documents that provide insight into game production.
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