Preservation News

Ralph Baer, the father of the first video game console the Magnavox Odyssey, left behind a treasure trove of documents after his unfortunate death in 2014. Curt Vendel of the Atari Museum acquired nine [bankers] boxes of documents with permission and is now seeking Gaming Alexandria's help to scan and release them!

Total mailing costs will be around $25 per box so will (for sending and returning) total $450 ($25 x18). If goal is not met, we will either have to try and scrape together funds from other sources of cut back on the number we are shipped.

CONTACT @RetroRomper or RetroRomper#2684 on Discord TO MAKE A DONATION

Funding:
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Amount Raised: $0
Amount Remaining: $450

People may have noticed I've been away the past week or so. Here's a small update to those reasons and some general progress updates.

To start, I've been sick the past few weeks and stuck on some shit kicking meds. I was told to get some rest by the doctor who decided not to put me down. ?

The first part of this update has alot of speculation as we still don't know the full story. What we do know is this all happened around the same time and appears to be connected, and for these reasons I won't be naming those involved for protection and if you wish to read it'll be included in a spoiler. This part doesn't affect the site directly but has lead to me having to take time away.

A few months ago before I got super tied up.. I asked how people would feel about small donations to make sure AG 2.0 didn't happen here. Most of the comments were positive and I setup a patreon but never launched it, Till now!

Currently it's setup to cover purely site expenses and won't be used for anything personal. In the future we'd like to expand into covering group buys, etc. I've left two tiers, one for those who prefer the forums and one for people who prefer both forum and discord.

The part I personally dislike here is Patreon does this as a monthly donation, You're welcome to cancel after a month and remain a donator still, with the same perks as someone who donates monthly. (It's not mandatory to help/donate! and the site will stay the same and ad free.) I'll look into options for monthly donators such as early access/discounted merch we have planned next year. ?

I've listed all our site expenses rounded up and converted to USD which isn't much, but it least covers...

Sonic Month 2019: Sonic CD!

https://hiddenpalace.org/Sonic_Month_2019
https://hiddenpalace.org/News/Sonic_Month_Part_2_-_Sonic_CD,_You_Say

New prototypes:
Sonic CD 0.02 (December 4, 1992)
Sonic CD 0.28A (May 12, 1993)
Sonic CD 0.51 (June 21, 1993)

Minor or previously released builds:
Sonic CD 0.70 (July 12, 1993)
Sonic CD 1.05 (August 1, 1993)
Sonic CD 1.09 (August 6, 1993)...

Together with the fine folks of TCRF, we would like to announce Sonic Month 2019!

We were able to obtain several new prototypes for Sega Mega Drive, Sega CD and Game Gear/Master System Sonic titles. These come from multiple sources, but we decided to have some fun and released them all in one month.

They are going to fill some gaps in our collection of Sonic prototypes, as well as answer some very long-standing questions. And who knows, maybe ask more questions of their own

October 25

A small Sega CD surprise for TCRF’s birthday!

https://hiddenpalace.org/Sonic_Month_2019
https://hiddenpalace.org/Sega_Multimedia_Studio:_Sega_CD_Demo_(May_29,_1992_prototype)



Every day listed below, at 2PM Pacific...

Sonic: The Shadow World would have seen Sonic traveling into Shadow's world, in a platformer that would have been much darker in tone than that of most Sonic games.

EDIT: Since posting this we have decided to convert the custom system to XenForo 2.1 as it's easier to manage and enables search.

As announced awhile ago, we've built a database of all AG posts/threads thanks to Alpha and many other AG members who put help in.

This is now live at https://assembler-games.com/ but is only static, i.e you cannot login so no personal data is included nor private messages.

A few sections don't currently work, and the category's aren't shown right in the breadcrumbs, 0th bit also isn't fully added yet but it should be usable. If you find any bugs please let me know thank you!

Avatars aren't currently added, but will be in time. you may get the odd 500 error, if you do just refresh after a minute or so and it'll load. Search features will also be added in time.

Thanks again to everybody for helping!

Regards,
Damien/Demon

EDIT: Known bugs/issues.

1. Few pages time out due to a PDO bug.
2. Search is being coded...

I had the opportunity to sit down with Rob Pardo, former Chief Creative Officer at Blizzard and founder of Bonfire Studios and talk a little bit about his experiences in the industry, all while being destroyed at Super Smash Bros. Ultimate by his son. In addition to his work at Blizzard, Rob worked QA at Interplay, so it was interesting to hear about his experiences there. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk a little bit about Warcraft Adventures and Starcraft: Ghost, so be sure to check out the replay of the stream below.

With ASSEMblerGames.com going down at the end of the month one of our moves has been building OG, along wth a static archive of the site, we've released a few different types of backups so far, along with others by Nemesis/more to come by archive.org etc.

What have we done so far? We've bought assemblergames.net in auction, along with https://www.assembler-games.com/ the .com being the main site to host the archive.

Alpha wrote a custom Python script to crawl the site and populate a database which'll be hosted on A-G.com once the site goes done. Akira has been writing a front end for it based on the style AG is using currently.

We'll post more as always, just a minor update to the things going on.

We also have new stuff coming shortly, so keep an eye out OG

Ps, We've added an option here: https://www.obscuregamers.com/account/account-details to add your original AG username and join date, copy from your profile and it'll display in...