International Center for the History of Electronic Games

ICHEG's corporate collections chronicle the impact of manufacturers on video games and society

Play through the history of video games at ICHEG’s eGameRevolution, shown here in part

Conservators restore classic arcade video games to their original conditions inside the ICHEG lab

The arcade video game collection contains more than 140 classic machines

Notebooks from Will Wright document the creation of SimCity 2000, SimCopter, The Sims, and Spore

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Jun 19, 2013

Rock and Roll Video Game

I recently went to a Guns and Roses concert. Axl Rose, the only original...
Jun 12, 2013

Finding Video Game History in the Archives

Traditional library and archival materials help flesh out the history of...
May 31, 2013

Gauntlet by Design: Creating the Four-Player-at-Once Arcade Game Experience

During the 1970s and 1980s, Atari programmers and designers crafted hundreds...

See key moments in the history of video games from 1940 to the present.

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