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[Monthly SIG Roundup] July 2009
[Monthly SIG Roundup] June 2009
[Exhibit] Videogame Nation at the Urbis Gallery
IGN Hosted Sites - Classic Gaming/Gamespy Networks Shutting Down
[Monthly SIG Roundup] May 2009
[Article Link] Saved Games: Preserving the New TV
[Memorials] Frank Herman, Kentaro Haneda
[Monthly SIG Roundup] April 2009
Before It's Too Late: A Digital Game Preservation White Paper Released
Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry
Speak, Atari - How the 2600 forged the home video game future
The History of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: Ollies, Grabs, and Grinds
Learning to let go
The Center for the History of Electronic Games
Endless loop: A brief history of chiptunes
Byte Back Reports
The Stunning Art & Design of the Atari 2600
On Atari Cartridges In Deep Caves
Heart on Fire: Deleted Scenes - #04A
A History of... Qwak?
The Pac-Man Dossier
Looking Back at Ensemble Studios
The History of the Pinball Construction Set
[Monthly SIG Roundup] March 2009
The National Videogame Archive Updates and My Report
Retroaction - Retro Gaming Mag
Ask the Game Trust: The First Game You Bought
Home of the Underdogs Website Hosting Ceased
The Trough of No Value
I'm Back!
European Project KEEP - Keeping emulation environments portable
On Daikatana
[Monthly SIG Roundup] February 2009
Nolan Bushnell to receive BAFTA Fellowship
Space Invaders Development
The Pac-Man Dungeons
Videogame History Events: Back-Byte 2009
The ultimate Atari collection!
Websites 'must be saved for history'
Smash Pack programmer wanted Echelon to release ROM Loader
Games that smell
Donkey Kong's misrepresentation on home consoles
The Game Developer Archives: 'Monsters From the Id: The Making of Doom'
Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll - the game that never was
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System Released
Fukio "MTJ" Mitsuji Passes Away
Ancient Artifacts of the Origin Museum, Part II
Interview with Curt Vendel
The History Of Pong: Avoid Missing Game to Start Industry
EGM Shut down, 1UP Sold
The RePlay Files: A Trip To The 1986 JAMMA Arcade Game Show, Part 1
Archiveteam
More on Threshold Wikipedia Article
Losing the Threshold MUD Wikipedia Entry
[Monthly SIG Roundup] January 2009
IGN Retro: Revising History: The Crash of '83
Legend of Zelda Retrospective Vids
VirtualBox Gets OpenGL Acceleration Support
Adventure Game Interfaces
Your Sinclair Final Issue
The Making of... Dune II
Sega Master System 101: A Beginner’s Guide
Fifteen Years Of Doom, Ten years of the Dreamcast
More Save The Videogame
Blu-Ray Discs Possibly Starting To Bit Rot?
Chris Kohler's Retro Systems For Sale
My Month With Christmas Lemmings--Updated Daily!
GameSetVideo Treasures - The Art Of The Game Mockumentary
Old Paradigms and a Podcast
Three pioneers: a historic picture and The Original Habitat Promotional Video
Atari Nerd Interviews The First Mainstream Game Journalist - Michael Schrage Of Rolling Stone
Zork PDP-11 Manual PDF
The Essential Taito
Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts signings
[Monthly SIG Roundup] December 2008
The Last Express: Revisiting An Unsung Classic
Time Magazine's 1993 Look at Games
Taking Inventory - Get Lamp blog
Zork Infocom PDP-11First Edition Manual
Saving Worlds: Preserving the digital and virtual.
Virtual Worlds TImeline
'Might Have Been' - Time Gal
UK National Video Game Archive's Newman On Preserving The Past
Once Upon Atari Clips
Twenty Years of the Sega Genesis
Inside the Commodore 64
Tim Schafer Grim Fandango Design Doc
Preservation SIG UK National Videogame Archive Visit
Chris Crawfords' Library - The Journal of Computer Game Design
[Monthly SIG Updates] November 2008
Digital Press #1-53 Online
The End Of Pinball?
All Style: Early Psygnosis Games and Box Art
World of Warcraft for the Atari 2600
Fallout Retrospective
The anatomy of the first video game (Tennis for Two)
The Making of…Deus Ex Machina
Save the Videogame
Fallout 180
In The Beginning, There Was Populous
MUD Turns 30
C64 Orchestra
Arcade Machines in the Movies
USB Atari Controller
Sierra Game Servers Closing Down
Q&A: GOG!
Good Old Games beta Impressions
Amnesia, Forgotten and Remembered
Contacting the Preservation SIG Newsdesk
The Sierra Newsletter, Sierra News Magazine & InterAction Magazine Archive
A Comprehensive List Of Documentaries/TV/Shows/Movies About Video Game and Computer History
The Game Master Speaks: Hudson's 'Takahashi-Meijin' Goes Retro
Gaming, as Viewed 20 Years Ago
[Monthly SIG Updates] October 2008
Complete History of Kirby
Gameplayer "The Complete History Of..."
Hybrid IBM/C64 Diskette Found
PDP1 Spacewar!
Infocom's Numbers Graphed, Curmudgeonly
A Short History of Game Manuals
Infocom's All-Time Sales Numbers Revealed
Grand Theft Auto For Intellivision
Nintendo Calendar
'Lost' Virtual Boy Cache Found in Dubai
Austin GDC UT Archive Material Display
DK source code link
Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever 2008 "RP2"
The Worst Player in Video Game History
Consoles of the '70s
Author of PEDIT5 speaks out!
Vintage Computer Festival East 5.0
DigitPress Interviews Paul Allen Newell
Update: the Archiving Virtual Worlds video collection
The Classic Console & Arcade Game Show
An Interview With a Collector on Selling His Collection
The Legacy at RPS
Pitfalls of DVD Collecting
Errant Nintendo Licensing
Katsuya Eguchi on Animal Crossing
[Monthly SIG Updates] September 2008
EA Releases Red Alert for Free
Nintendo 64 101
The rise and fall of Full Throttle: a conversation with Bill Tiller
MSN interviews Joe Santulli
Warcraft 3 Commentary and History
Atari: The Golden Years -- A History, 1978-1981
The History Of Nintendo
Steve Meretzky profiled "Sign of the Crab"
The TRON design documents
Writing the history of virtual worlds
Count Pixel's Top five classic games
Baldur's Gate 10th Anniversary
Preserving Video Games UT Project Website launched
What's Next For Videogames? Documentary Extract at the IA
Internet Archive E3 Footage from 2004-2006
The SEGA Game Archive
Chinese Chrono Trigger NES Cart
The Beginnings of Sierra Part 2
Sega CD 101: A Beginner’s Guide
PacMan: The Other Movie
The Beginnings of Sierra Part 1
Game Libratory at CRCA, UCSD (NOTCOT)
Inside Nintendo's Classic Game Console
Mario, Luigi & Bill O’Reilly
Wing Commander Archiving Project
University of Texas at Austin Looks at MMO Preservation
Call to Action: Game Preservation SIG White Paper brainstorming!
SIG Monthly Update: August 2008
"Lost Server Connection": The Last Minutes of a Virtual World
Introducing the Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection Blog
Game Mag Weaseling: Where to begin?
Simon Turns 30: The History of the Toy and Gaming's First Grudge
A History of Gaming Platforms: Atari 8-Bit Computers
The History of Video Games: The First Video Game?...
Interview: He Is 8-Bit: Capcom's Hironobu Takeshita Speaks
Word Play: The Evolution of Game Journalism
The World of Western RPGs
SomethingAwful: The Complete History Of Video Games
Journal Starting "Historical Studies of Digital Entertainment Media"
Making Tennis For Two On Modern Hardware
The Good and Bad of Sport Videogames
Defender...in a Favicon
SomethingAwful Game Articles
GOG from CD-Projekt to Offer Classic Games
Stanford Workshop: “Preserving Knowledge in Virtual Worlds”
The Importance Of History In The Excellence Of Video Games
Henry Lowood on Machinima and the History of Digital Games
The First Video Game Sequel with modding?
Discworld Game Remakes
Interview with Benoît Sokal
10 things everyone should know about Space Invaders
THE MAKING OF… Carmageddon
Ralph Baer On The Industry’s Birth, Preserving History
@Play on Roguelikes and History
Video Games and Libraries
The History of 8bit Gaming in the UK
The Horrors of Retro PC Game Covers
Alone in the Dark History In Pictures
Darling Brothers Honoured With CBE
Dan Rubenfield Speaks Out on New Game Enhancements
Big Budget Videogame Diasters
The Slow Decline of the Wii Virtual Console
IA: The Art of Interactive Storytelling
The Best N64 Games That Still Matter Today
Kevin Gifford Enjoys Typing Out A Commadore Program
Nolan Bushnell To Be Played By Leonardo DiCaprio in Biopic
Remembering 'Deus Ex'
The End of Arcades
A Mario Retrospective - Parts I to III
Phosphor Dot Fossils
Brief History of Game Ads
Nottingham Trent University Starting an Archive
Alex Trowers - The Bullfrog Story Part 2
'Neo Geo is the REAL DEAL'
Indiana Jones and the History of his Videogames
Tennis For Two, The Second Videogame - Video
Alex Trowers - The Bullfrog Story Part 1
Space Invaders: The Story of a Legend
The History of Prince of Persia
Gamasutra: Game Design Essentials: 20 Atari Games
Parody: 1979 Game Developers Conference
Gametrailers.com Metal Gear and Star Wars Games Retrospectives
Sega Genesis / Megadrive 101: A Beginners Guide
Escaping the Escapist
Book Extract: Dungeons and Desktops: 'The Silver Age'
Capcom Releases Lifetime Sales Numbers
Classic Gaming Expo 2008 Not On
RetroFusion '08 UK Event
A history of the Amiga part 7
A History of Gaming Platforms: Mattel Intellivision
Timeline of Casual Gaming
Video Arcade Timeline
The Rise and Fall of Atari
Retrospective: Kingpin
Flea Market ROMs Dumped and Confirmed
Starcade Episodes Online
The first Grand Theft Auto BBC Report
Amiga "Still Alive" Animated Tribute
Unreleased Atari 2600 Game Found At Flea Market
"Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC"
First Issue of EGM
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The History of Panzer Dragoon
How to fix your NES
"Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball" Interview
Super Mario in Javascript
Rediscovering Arcade Nostalgia
Gaming Pioneers: Part Two: Ralph Baer Interview
American Libraries and Videogames
RPS: The Making of System Shock 2
GameDev.net: Learning From The 3000 "Classics"
Retro: Space Hulk
Ocean and Imagine 1983/4 video
Metaverse U Time Captsule videos
Debut UK Commadore 64 Virtual Console Titles
Apple IIc Autopsy
Gaming Pioneers: Part One: Allan Alcorn Interview
Raph Koster on A brief history of botting
RPS: Retro: Colonization
Internal pictures of a Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo)
The History of The Sims
The Atari and Sega Failure-rama, Part 1
'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
A History of Mac Gaming
Al Alcorn Interview (Beyond Pong: Hacking Allan Alcorn)
GTA Profile
THE MAKING OF... Japan's First RPG (Black Onyx)
A History of Gaming Platforms: Atari 2600 Video Computer System/VCS
Retrospective: Dungeon Keeper
Ralph Baer and Al Alcorn's GDC talk
Born Free: the History of the Openworld Game
Past GDC and E3 photos
The History of Dragon Quest
Atari Games Document Library updated
DMA design pictures and photos
A History of Gaming Platforms: The Apple II
Retro look: Syndicate
A Guide to Board and Card Games Based on Video Games (1971 to 2007)
The 50 Greatest Arcade Cabinets In Video Game History!
Gamaustra: A History of Gaming Platforms: The Vectrex
Computer History Museum youtube channel
VC&G Interview: Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari
Digital Game Canon 2007 presentations and audio online
The History of Atari: 1971-1977
A History of Gaming Platforms: The Commodore 64
Q&A on Johnny Mnemonic
Preserving Game Worlds - Kotaku interview
1998 Prey Portals
[Ditigal Game Canon] Star Raiders
[Internet Archive] Simon Carless with "GameSetVideo Treasures" And The Internet Archive's Videogames Collection
SIG News now moved here
IGDA Game Perservation Blog now in operation!
UT Videogame Archive fundraiser reports
UT Videogame Archive Fundraiser annouced
Original Collossal Cave Adventure Source Code Found
Preserving Virtual Worlds project annouced!
[Digital Game Canon] The History of Civilization
[Digital Game Canon] History of Zork online
[Digital Game Canon] The History of Spacewar
Digital Game Canon project started
GDC:04 Roundtable On Game Preservation