Retro and obscure video game enthusiast and archivist.
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Lots of really great wonky Mario art on this cardboard backer (台紙) for a series of bootleg Super Mario World watches.
We've got a big one today. Almost 20 years after Maxis released Spore, we talked to eight people -- including Will Wright -- about the studio's big experiment.
Happy 40th anniversary to the Famicom version of Ghosts 'n Goblins!
I've got a very busy Summer ahead of me, so I'm taking some time off from doing my daily keshi scans.
The great news is I have OVER 800 figures currently 3D scanned and available for you to download right now! Enjoy, and have a great Summer!
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Barbie Vacation Adventure, an unreleased SNES game, is getting an official release on the Barbie Rewind collection later this year. You can read the article on this game on SNES Central. snescentral.com/article.php?...
In honor of Nintendo's big Zelda announcement today, we've just added "Wieviel Hältst Du Aus?" to our archive! This German VHS tape contains, among other things, beta footage for Zelda 64, aka Ocarina of Time!
My new video for @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is out now! I dig into press and marketing coverage leading up to the launch of EarthBound, and explore what came between this now legendary game and commercial success. youtu.be/M69F6Vj_DME
Sorry but we'll never shy away from an excuse to highlight one of the rarest items in our archive: Check out some clips of Nintendo veteran Steve Okimoto introducing the GBA to Nintendo of America employees for the first time! This tape is dated 9/22/00, nearly 8 months prior to the GBA's US launch!
This is the original concept art for Spyro, provided to us by former Insomniac artist Craig Stitt. Hear all about Craig's work and his career on this video episode of our podcast, the Video Game History Hour!
We've got an extra special addition to our archive to announce today: Nintendo 1991 Funente Oy, a Point-Of-Sale VHS tape from Finland that contains 24 different late 80s Nintendo commercials in better quality than we can find anywhere else online! Read more here:
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A wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...
Show of hands: who among you has ventured off to YouTube in order to re-experience a TV commercial from their youth? We sure have! Ads are everywhere these days, and while a reprieve from the constant...
#OcarinaOfTime remake officially announced during this morning's #NintendoDirect! No gameplay footage unfortunately, but we're sure there's light on the horizon!
I'm thrilled to announce that I've 3D scanned all 21 of the Ghosts 'n Goblins keshi figures that Bandai released in gachapon capsule machines in 1986!
You can now download the complete set for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/kesh...
Happy birthday to the Game Boy Advance, which released in the USA on this day in 2001! Can you believe Nintendo's potent little handheld is a quarter-century old this year? We feel old.
