3,759 itemsWelcome to Video Games

The Internet Archive, a non-profit institution based in San Francisco which also hosts the Wayback Machine and many important audio, video and webpage collections, is working with multiple external parties, including the IGDA's Preservation SIG and Stanford University's How They Got Game Project to preserve all kinds of rare and difficult to source video files relating to video games.

Updates to the collection are now listed below:

- March 2008: Now added, the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection, "...dedicated to the academic investigation and historical preservation of documentation of virtual worlds."
- October 2007: Have added the C64 Game Video Archive, with a mass of gameplay videos from Commodore 64 titles - thanks to Reinhard Klinksiek.
- September 2007: Now adding selected promotional videos and interviews from the archive of Shacknews and its Fileshack video collection - thanks to Steve Gibson and Chris Remo.
- September 2007: Added all existing episodes of Scottish satirical video game show Consolevania to the Game Footage collection.
- September 2007: Added multiple lectures from the Independent Games Summit to the Game Footage collection - thanks to CMP Technology.

If you have material that you would like to donate to this collection, please contact Simon Carless, the Internet Archive's curator attached to this project, at simon@archive.org.

[NOTE: If you're looking for Machinima, it has been moved into the new Animation & Cartoons collection.]

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187 items

C64 Game Video Archive
This collection showcases games playthroughs from the classic Commodore 64 computer, charting its evolution chronologically, with in-depth videos of the games being played. This collection is a work in progress and will be updated periodically.

34 items

Game Interviews
This collection includes filmed interviews with important figures from video game history, including many contributions quizzing contemporary Japanese developers and other important Western figures, thanks to UK-based game website Kikizo.com and Fileshack.com.

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Games For Art's Sake
Games For Art's Sake is a new collection.

112 items

Video Game Footage
Miscellaneous video game-related shows, lectures, films, in-game and live footage of various useful and historical kinds. This collection includes: Game-related Video News Releases (VNRs) that were originally submitted to the Computer Chronicles television series and are generally offered to the...

206 items

Videogame Replays
Freely distributable replay and demo movies from a number of different sources, including popular 2D shoot em up (or 'shmup') console and PC videogames, are featured here. Check out the incredible skills, amazing chains, and spectacular flying prowess demonstrated here!

1,188 items

Speed Runs
Speed running (trying to complete a videogame in the fastest time possible) is almost as old as gaming itself. At least, it's almost as old as games that have a definite end point or staging points, since speedrunning a game with infinitely repeating levels is Sisyphean. This collection hosts...

2,200 items

Videogame Previews
More than 2,200 custom-created previews, from two major sources, are featured here. This collection showcases footage of video game titles produced for a variety of platforms, from Game Boy Color to Xbox, between 1993 - 2004. The previews are presented in the form of trailers - short videos that...

199 items

Archiving Virtual Worlds
The Virtual Worlds video archive is dedicated to the academic investigation and historical preservation of documentation of virtual worlds. This collection is a collaborative effort of the How They Got Game Project of the Stanford Humanities lab, as part of the Preserving Virtual Words project...