Every time a rare piece of video game history goes up for sale, the preservation community holds its collective breath. Will that item be made available for historians to study, or will it rot in a ...

While SimCity is best remembered on the PC front (or perhaps the Super Nintendo, since there was a great port for that system), at one point there was a version made for the Nintendo Entertainment ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) effectively revived the North American video game industry in the mid-1980s. The console is known for its iconic red, black and grey, toaster-like look, but ...

Unseen for decades, ROM is now preserved by the Video Game History Foundation. Gamers of a certain age probably remember that Nintendo worked with Maxis to port a version of the seminal SimCity to the ...

Somewhere in an alternate universe, the NES Classic could include SimCity, which today would be a retro title that first launched on the original game system 27 years ago. Unfortunately, in this ...

The Video Game History Foundation has found and preserved the original NES version of SimCity. Frank Cifaldi, who is known for his work with Digital Eclipse and is the VGHF founder, made the ...

NES prototype hit the auction block and sold for $45,000 — not the $60,000 figure that initially circulated. But in a twist that feels almost mythic in this hobby, the anonymous buyer didn’t lock it ...

Last Friday, an ultra-rare Tengen Tetris protoype for the NES --one of only three known to be in existence-- showed up on video game auction website GameGavel. At the time of writing, the auction has ...

In 1989 when the PC version was released, Shigeru Miyamoto who worked on "Super Mario Bros." and "The Legend of Zelda" in Nintendo's designers seemed to have been drawing ideas for the game of town ...