Tag Archives: history
Short Post on the Early History of Console Cloning
I wanted to share a guest blog post I did for the Strong Museum of Play’s Play Stuff Blog during my summer fellowship there last year. The post entitled, Clones in the Archives: Console and Software Cloning Practices in the … Continue reading
This Day in Gaming History: A Wild Pokemon Appears
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise, with February 27th 1996 being the Japanese release date of Pocket Monsters Red and Green on the Nintendo Gameboy. To say the original Pokemon games were a momentous release is an … Continue reading
This Day in Gaming History: Nintendo’s Legend
30 years ago on February 21st 1986, The Legend of Zelda released on the Nintendo Famicom Disk System in Japan. This original title in the long running Legend of Zelda franchise has had tremendous effect on shaping our modern day gaming … Continue reading
Games That Make a Difference: Never Alone
Some games are rare. Not rare in a sense that they are hard to find or procure, but rare in the sense that they don’t fit the mold of the traditional video game. Never Alone (Also known as Kishima Innitchuna) … Continue reading
The Strong Museum Announces First Inductees To Video Game Hall of Fame
The Strong Museum, also known as the National Museum of Play, has announced their inductees to their first few inductees to their video game hall of fame. Who made the cut? Spoiler: You won’t be surprised by their choices! Let’s … Continue reading
This Day in Gaming History: Nintendo’s Revolution
This is a new feature on the blog in which we look back at some of the important landmarks of video game history and explore how they changed the video game landscape. Today we take you back to the futuristic … Continue reading
Strong Museum (NY) Is Creating Video Game Hall of Fame
“Video games don’t belong in museums, that’s where we put old chairs and paintings of dead people” – no one ever. The Strong Museum in New York, more commonly known as the national museum of play, is taking nominations for … Continue reading
Frisco Looks To Be Nation’s First Video Game Museum
http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/21/6742881/videogame-history-museum-location-national-frisco HEY. RAILROAD MUSEUM, MOVE OVER. Video games need a museum! Frisco (TX) is looking to invest in the nation’s first museum dedicated solely to video games. The Video Game History Museum, which up to this point has only been … Continue reading
Review: “Video Games The Movie”
Or more appropriately titled “Video Games The Documentary”. Amidst the number of summer movies that were released this summer, this one seemingly went under the radar beneath all of those transmorphers, ninja frogs, and earth defenders. I finally had a … Continue reading
Preserving The History of Video Games Here’s a very interesting piece about the International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG), a group seeking to preserve the history of video games. You may be saying “Hey, that’s not that … Continue reading
