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Keeping the classics alive: how archivists are preserving video game history

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Ash Parrish
And now for something completely different.

If you’re burnt out on all the Switch 2 coverage, why don’t you pop on over to the Video Game History Foundation’s YouTube. They’re cracking open over 100 ROMs that appear to be from the Japanese developer Taito. There’s hope to find assets from old games and possibly unreleased prototypes of games never seen before.

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