3 ms·

This is a great project. Phil Salvador and Travis Brown, who were working on this, and founder Frank Cifaldi, are all great people. They have a podcast, the Vid

This is a great project. Phil Salvador and Travis Brown, who were working on this, and founder Frank Cifaldi, are all great people. They have a podcast, the Video Game History Hour, where they discuss topics related to video game preservation (recently back after a roughly year long hiatus), if you want to here the people who work there talk about what they do and some of the challenges they face. This has been a long time coming, and the work they did with Cyan on the Myst collection in particular is nothing short of incredible. They had access to basically everything, and it was a huge effort to digitize all of the documents and VHS recordings to (hopefully) archive them long-term. This website is freely accessible, but the VGHF is a non-profit, so kick them a donation if you can and want to see more work like this!

boogieknite 2y ago
i found ep 7 with Gary Kitchen pretty inspiring. hes a little full of himself but he certainly has the hackers mentality and i find his frankness (ugh pun) kicks my butt into gear
- Scuds 2y ago
  that's one ep that sticks out in my mind - hardware hacking to dump a 2600 cartridge and build homebrew development hardware and then reverse engineering to figure out what's what. Also the subtle flex of making the Donkey Kong girders on an angle when the 2600 is a 'race the beam' system where each scanline must be computed. Even modern homebrew remakes of Donkey Kong on 2600 have horizontal girders.
OhMeadhbh 2y ago
That's a great resource! Thanks! I loved the episode about Margo Comstock. I remember bumping into her and the Softalk staff at a trade show in the 80s.
eleveriven 2y ago
Such people are very inspiring and motivating.
ranger_danger 2y ago
> great people Frank is regularly involved with some bizarre drama. He likes to take credit for stuff him and his crew had no part in. Once he even demanded that Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony revoke THQ Nordic's publishing license all because they did an AMA on a site he didn't like. There's plenty more but this is not the appropriate venue.
- brendoelfrendo 2y ago
  "A site he didn't like," aka 8Chan. He was not alone in pointing out that THQ's choice of venue was, at best, poorly researched, and that they should try to distance themselves from the 8Chan community. Don't try to hide the nature of the complaint behind the "this isn't the correct venue for this conversation" defense, because I think it's important context.

boogieknite 2y ago

i found ep 7 with Gary Kitchen pretty inspiring. hes a little full of himself but he certainly has the hackers mentality and i find his frankness (ugh pun) kicks my butt into gear

Scuds 2y ago
that's one ep that sticks out in my mind - hardware hacking to dump a 2600 cartridge and build homebrew development hardware and then reverse engineering to figure out what's what. Also the subtle flex of making the Donkey Kong girders on an angle when the 2600 is a 'race the beam' system where each scanline must be computed. Even modern homebrew remakes of Donkey Kong on 2600 have horizontal girders.

OhMeadhbh 2y ago

That's a great resource! Thanks! I loved the episode about Margo Comstock. I remember bumping into her and the Softalk staff at a trade show in the 80s.

eleveriven 2y ago

Such people are very inspiring and motivating.

ranger_danger 2y ago

> great people Frank is regularly involved with some bizarre drama. He likes to take credit for stuff him and his crew had no part in. Once he even demanded that Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony revoke THQ Nordic's publishing license all because they did an AMA on a site he didn't like. There's plenty more but this is not the appropriate venue.

brendoelfrendo 2y ago
"A site he didn't like," aka 8Chan. He was not alone in pointing out that THQ's choice of venue was, at best, poorly researched, and that they should try to distance themselves from the 8Chan community. Don't try to hide the nature of the complaint behind the "this isn't the correct venue for this conversation" defense, because I think it's important context.