Video Game History Foundation

@GameHistoryOrg · Oakland, CA · joined 25 Sep 2016

Nonprofit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games.

66 001Followers

8Following

4 497Posts total

12.9KViews on collected posts

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Video Game History Foundation@GameHistoryOrg11 Sep

In the latest VGHH podcast, Phil Salvador interviews Amy Thomas, legal expert and author of Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play, about the history and landscape of EULAs (end user license agreements) in games: https://t.co/wmZFt4IUro https://t.co/sNsQqkIAFe

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Video Game History Foundation@GameHistoryOrg11 Sep

Imagine Town Magazine (originally Game Candy) was a mag supplement published by Ubisoft in the late 2000s and early 2010s to promote their line of casual games for girls - here's our mini-collection: https://t.co/2huwQ87cUr https://t.co/x9SL7h5Tcb

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Video Game History Foundation@GameHistoryOrg10 Sep

The early rise of E3 for video game companies (and the fall of CES) was documented in this rare issue of Videogame Advisor magazine from 1995: https://t.co/pGrsi0lvUQ https://t.co/AGDe9q5MyI

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Video Game History Foundation@GameHistoryOrg9 Sep

Deathkeep is a little-known game in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons universe for the 3DO. This footage of it at E3 1995 has you wandering around, but doesn't have any of the final UI. https://t.co/eyZWz7DPQA #3DO #RetroGames #Deathkeep https://t.co/Aupml6sTu3

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Video Game History Foundation@GameHistoryOrg7 Sep

Need a hi-rez version of the face tattoo on the U.S. cover of Acclaim's Descent-style shooter Forsaken? Naturally, our GamePro media CDs have that: https://t.co/nTqN8ujhl5 https://t.co/VNjxKOfgsr

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Video Game History Foundation@GameHistoryOrg30 Jul 2024

@GameHistoryOrg Kids today will shrug their arms at this like it doesn’t matter, but this is why physical media wins every time over digital for me. This should be criminal for Xbox/MS to do — they created the platform, support it. Plenty of older online ecosystems still up and 984 views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Video Game History Foundation@GameHistoryOrg29 Jul 2024

@GameHistoryOrg I think game preservation should also include content other than games and DLC that were sold via these store fronts. Like in this instance, content from the Xbox 360 Marketplace like trials, original avatar items, gamerpics, themes, and (if anyone REALLY cares) 2K views · 25 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views2 146this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.25%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.30%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 146	924	2.32×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.25%	3.62%	0.90×
Engagement rate	1.30%	1.52%	0.86×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2K29 Jul

98430 Jul

2.5K7 Sep

2.2K9 Sep

2.1K10 Sep

1.6K11 Sep

1.5K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.33%29 Jul

1.42%30 Jul

1.86%7 Sep

1.44%9 Sep

1.30%10 Sep

1.10%11 Sep

0.55%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes83.6%153 in total

Reposts9.3%17 in total

Replies1.1%2 in total

Bookmarks6.0%11 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.