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Video Game History Foundation to release scans of 1,500 vintage gaming magazines

Gaming periodicals once destined for recycling now serve as invaluable windows into video game industry evolution

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 29, 2025
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Pages from Games Master 001, by Future Publishing, (1993)

When Future Publishing's game magazines were shredded in the 1990s, no one thought twice about destroying what would become invaluable historical documents. Now, remaining copies of these defunct gaming periodicals are commanding premium prices on eBay and being digitally preserved by archivists w…

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