The Latest Breaking News from the Video Game History Foundation

'Cookie's Bustle' Is Back in the Spotlight After 25 Years of Mystery

"Cookie's Bustle" returns to the spotlight as its 25th anniversary, lost history, and copyright battle fuel speculation about its future.

Player One · Oct 5

From Super Mario 64 to infamous Conker’s Quest, the E3 festival archives are a nostalgic treasure trove for retro gaming fans

The Video Game History Foundation has uncovered unseen images from the biggest event of the '90s and '00s.

Creative Bloq · Jul 25

"An aggressive copyright troll" spent years abusing DMCAs to turn a bizarre Japanese PC game into lost media, until "they f***ed with" preservation-focused historians with a legal team

"If we care about video games as art and as cultural history, we need to stand up for our legal right to document out-of-print orphan games, and to confront the copyright trolls who stand in the way"

GamesRadar · Mar 3

Scans for the memories: why old games magazines are a vital source of cultural history – and nostalgia

As the Video Game History Foundation opens a new digitised archive, what can titles like Crash, Mega, Edge and GamesMaster tell us about the early days of gaming?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2025

The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month, providing access to over 1,500 videogame magazines and 'never-before-seen game development materials'

Back issues.

PC Gamer · Jan 26, 2025

US copyright law 'forces researchers to explore extra-legal methods' for game preservation, say historians who are 'disappointed' after being denied a DMCA exemption

The Video Game History Foundation had proposed rule changes that would make it easier for researchers and archivist to legally access old games.

PC Gamer · Oct 25, 2024

These developers are putting game preservation front and center

Classic video games are being lost to time, but some developers are looking to reverse the tide.

TechRadar · Feb 19, 2024

Study finds around 87 percent of games are unplayable without resorting to piracy, scavenger hunts, or travelling to an archive

The study by the Video Game History Foundation is a major step towards video game preservation.

PC Gamer · Jul 11, 2023

Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives

Starting March 27, you won't be able to buy digital games for the Wii U and 3DS. Video game archivists and fans are racing to preserve titles that may soon disappear.

WEKU · Mar 24, 2023