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Video games -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

"A Visual History of Videogame Consoles in the USA" poster, 1998

 Item
Identifier: RAUCH-004-04.2
Abstract

This promotional poster for the Namco Museum series may have been distributed at E3 1998; according to the E3 1998 guidebook, Namco promoted the Namco Museum games at this event.

Dates: Copyright: 1998

BPM, Issue 33, "The Gaming Issue", May 2002

 Item — Location Lifestyle magazines, assorted
Identifier: MAG-LIFEMISC-BPM.33
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a collection of assorted issues of lifestyle magazines. These magazines deal with lifestyle topics primarily unrelated to video games. However, the Video Game History Foundation may collect individual issues with content related to video game history. Notes may be added to the records for individual items to explain their relevance to the library.

Dates: Publication: May 2002

Incredibly Strange Games, 2010–2012?

 Series
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-ISG
Abstract

Incredibly Strange Games is a zine and accompanying blog by Chris Charla, exploring unusual retro video games and retrogaming culture. At least three issues were published.

Dates: Publication: 2010–2012?

Incredibly Strange Games, Issue 1, 2010

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-EXP; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-ISG; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-GAMETIME
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-ISG.1
Scope and Contents

The library has two copies of this issue of Incredibly Strange Games, one of which is a "Special Monochrome Edition." This edition comes with a handwritten note promoting the next issue of the zine.

Dates: Publication: 2010

Incredibly Strange Games, Issue 2, 2011

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-EXP; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-ISG; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-GAMETIME
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-ISG.2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The library's zine collection currently holds five subcollections of zines by various authors and groups.

Dates: Publication: 2011

Incredibly Strange Games, Issue 3, 2012

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-EXP; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-ISG; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-GAMETIME
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-ISG.3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The library's zine collection currently holds five subcollections of zines by various authors and groups.

Dates: Publication: 2012

Memory Insufficient zine, 2018

 Item
Identifier: EPHEMERA-LAWHEAD.07
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a collection of zines and ephemera donated to the Video Game History Foundation by Nathalie Lawhead. Lawhead collected these zines from events they attended between roughly 2016–2018.

Dates: Publication: 2018

MobyGames export scripts and data, scripts written May 11, 2023, data compiled June 2, 2023, published July 10, 2023

 Item
Identifier: REPORTS-001.2.3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is version 1.1 of the Video Game History Foundation's reissue market survey. Version 1.1 includes fixes for various minor typographic and information errors.

The results of this study are accurate through April 15, 2023. Changes to game availability after this date were not recorded.

Dates: scripts written May 11, 2023; data compiled June 2, 2023; Publication: published July 10, 2023

Nintendo History System, Prologue: 1889–1970, 2010

 Item — Location Zines: Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-VIDMAGIC; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-IJAG; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-EXP; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-ISG; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-GAMETIME; Series EPHEMERA-ZINES-1UP
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-MISC.4
Abstract

This comic was intended as the first issue of an eight-part series about the history of Nintendo. This appears to be the only issue that was published.

Dates: Publication: 2010

Save Point, 2019

 Series
Identifier: EPHEMERA-ZINES-SAVEPOINT
Abstract

Save Point is a series of game magazines by game historian Dr. Carly A. Kocurek that explores how to understand the history of video games through different angles, like objects and color.

Dates: Publication: 2019