Video Game History Foundation launches a digital archive free for everyone

Giving everyone free access to their new launch (well, it's in "early access"), the Video Game History Foundation have put up their digital archive of video game history research materials.

This was originally announced back in late 2023, the idea is to give you an easy way to access various historic collections of video game development materials, magazines, artwork, ephemera and more. There's already a huge amount of resources available in it (they say there's over "1500 full-text searchable out-of-print video game magazines—including game industry trade magazines rarely available to the public") which includes some never-before-seen game development materials.

Check out their announcement video below:

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To make it all actually work they even built a new "state-of-the-art text recognition toolset that makes even the wildest, weirdest video game magazines and promotional materials fully text-searchable". This is a wonderful initiative to ensure gaming history of all forms is not lost. Love seeing more preservation efforts like this.

See more in their announcement or go right to the archive.