The Video Game History Foundation’s immense collection is now available in early access for you to learn about an epic moment in gaming history — or simply peruse at your whim — for free.

VGHF is a nonprofit focusing on keeping and making available all resources pertaining to video games press. The library the foundation just made available to the public contains over 1500 out-of-print gaming magazines and 30,000 files that have been scanned so hard you can even use the text search function on them.

VGHF’s pile of magazines

Thefoundation’s previous announcement teaseda bunch of surprises, and now we know that even the library’s early version is packed with amazing goodies:

VGHF is a non-profit organization, so all this is made possible by the contributions of people who want game history to stay accessible for all present and future generations of gamers. you may help this causeright here.

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The library is now fully accessible onlinehere. Still, be aware that you might encounter a few hiccups as a lot of people are likely to be accessing the site at the same time. All possible issues are likely to either go away by themselves or to get fixed as the archive leaves early access.

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Far Cry’s art

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Milla Jovovich portraying Alice in Resident Evil 2002, wearing a red dress and holding a gun in her hand.

Characters combatting strange creatures in Light of Motiram.

A battle scene in Battlefield 6 Open Beta

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