Frank Cifaldi | |
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![]() Cifaldi at the 2024
Game Developers Conference | |
Born | May 22, 1982 |
Occupation(s) | Video game archivist, historian, and developer |
Known for | Founding the
Video Game History Foundation
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Frank Cifaldi (born May 22, 1982) [1] is a video game preservationist, historian, and developer.
Cifaldi founded Lost Levels, a website that collected information about unreleased video games, in 2003. [2] This began his career in the video game industry, and after years of writing about and producing games, he founded the Video Game History Foundation in 2016. [2] He is currently the director of the organization, [3] [4] and has assisted in projects including Digital Eclipse's Mega Man Legacy Collection [5] [6] and The Disney Afternoon Collection remasters. [7] Cifaldi would leave Digital Eclipse around 2020 to work on the Video Game History Foundation full time. [8]
He is also known for his extensive personal collection of video game periodicals. [9] [10] Cifaldi has also researched early video game advertising, [11] early Nintendo prototypes, [12] and the official Super Mario Bros. release date. [13] He presented on games preservation at the 2016 Game Developers Conference. [14] [15] Cifaldi is additionally a former features editor of Gamasutra, [16] and a former host of the Retronauts podcast. [17]
Frank Cifaldi | |
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![]() Cifaldi at the 2024
Game Developers Conference | |
Born | May 22, 1982 |
Occupation(s) | Video game archivist, historian, and developer |
Known for | Founding the
Video Game History Foundation
|
Frank Cifaldi (born May 22, 1982) [1] is a video game preservationist, historian, and developer.
Cifaldi founded Lost Levels, a website that collected information about unreleased video games, in 2003. [2] This began his career in the video game industry, and after years of writing about and producing games, he founded the Video Game History Foundation in 2016. [2] He is currently the director of the organization, [3] [4] and has assisted in projects including Digital Eclipse's Mega Man Legacy Collection [5] [6] and The Disney Afternoon Collection remasters. [7] Cifaldi would leave Digital Eclipse around 2020 to work on the Video Game History Foundation full time. [8]
He is also known for his extensive personal collection of video game periodicals. [9] [10] Cifaldi has also researched early video game advertising, [11] early Nintendo prototypes, [12] and the official Super Mario Bros. release date. [13] He presented on games preservation at the 2016 Game Developers Conference. [14] [15] Cifaldi is additionally a former features editor of Gamasutra, [16] and a former host of the Retronauts podcast. [17]