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The Morgue File is a wiki for materials that give videogames context.

Our aim is to build an archive of information, links and media open to all researchers of videogame history, bringing scattered, difficult-to-find resources together into a single reference. And we need your help to build it!

"You don't understand a game by playing it."

Frank Cifaldi, Video Game History Foundation

Who is this for?

Researchers
Academics
Journalists
YouTubers
Anyone else interested in the history of videogames

What's with the name?

"A morgue file originally was a collection of paper folders containing old files and notes kept by criminal investigators, as well as old article clippings kept by newspaper reporters, in case they became of later use as a quick reference collection."

definition from Wikipedia

Want to help?

This wiki is still young. Please, join in and help shape this community project! We have a Getting Started guide, and we're open to suggestions.

What belongs here?

If it's relevant to videogames, and it's not made of code, this is probably the place for it. A non-exhaustive list:

Design documents
Advertisements
Trade press
Newspaper clippings
Reviews
Interviews
Talks
Histories
Letters to the editor
Old messageboard threads
Cultural ephemera

Sample Collections

Why not take a look at the resources we've gathered for...

Or see the list of all 275 games on the wiki.

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+<p class="h1 text-white">The <span style="font-family: Montserrat; font-weight: 700;">Morgue File</span> is a wiki for materials that '''give videogames context'''.</h1>
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+<p class="lead">Our aim is to build an archive of information, links and media open to all researchers of videogame history, bringing scattered, difficult-to-find resources together into a single reference. And we need your help to build it!</p>
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-<h3 class="mb-0">"You don't understand a game by playing it."</p>
+<h3 class="mb-0"><span style="font-weight: 700;">"You don't understand a game by playing it."</span></p>
-<p class="blockquote-footer">Frank Cifaldi</p>
+<p class="blockquote-footer">Frank Cifaldi, Video Game History Foundation</p>
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-<p class="display-4 text-white">The Videogame Morgue File is a collection of materials intended to give videogames <em>context</em>.</h1>
-<p class="lead text-white">Our aim is to build an archive of information, links and media that can be of value to researchers of videogame history, bringing scattered, hard-to-find resources into one place, for every game ever made.</p>
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+== Who is this for? ==
+* Researchers
+* Academics
+* Journalists
+* YouTubers
+* Anyone else interested in the history of videogames
 == What's with the name? ==
-"A morgue file originally was a collection of paper folders containing old files and notes kept by criminal investigators, as well as old article clippings kept by newspaper reporters, in case they became of later use as a quick reference collection."
+<blockquote class="blockquote mt-4 px-4">
+<p><em>"A morgue file originally was a collection of paper folders containing old files and notes kept by criminal investigators, as well as old article clippings kept by newspaper reporters, in case they became of later use as a quick reference collection."</em></p>
+<p class="blockquote-footer">definition from Wikipedia</p>
+</blockquote>
+== Want to help? ==
+This wiki is still young. Please, join in and help shape this community project! We have a [[Help:Getting_Started|Getting Started guide]], and we're open to suggestions.
+</div>
+<div class="col-lg">
 == What belongs here? ==
+If it's relevant to videogames, and it's not made of code, this is probably the place for it. A non-exhaustive list:
 * Design documents
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 * Talks
 * Histories
+* Letters to the editor
+* Old messageboard threads
+* Cultural ephemera
-If it's relevant to a videogame, and it's not made of code, there's probably a place for it here.
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+== Sample Collections ==
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+Why not take a look at the resources we've gathered for...
-== Upload policy ==
+* [[Computer Space|...the first commercial videogame?]]
+* [[Amsterdoom|...an obscure Dutch first-person shooter?]]
+* [[Lemmings|...one of the most ported games of all time?]]
-The nature of videogame research is such that the entire field falls under current copyright terms, and this will remain the case for decades. Nearly all of the material we study — whether advertising, press coverage, or fan reaction — is still technically under the legal ownership of some company or individual. Whether this material was originally provided voluntarily, and under what terms that might have been, is usually unknowable; for the majority of materials, clearing the copyright is impossible.
-So unlike some wikis, the Morgue File can't implement a blanket ban on copyrighted material... but we should try to stay on the right side of fair use. Please follow these guidelines:
+Or see the list of [[:Category:Game|all {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Game|pages}} games on the wiki]].
-# If it's practical, link to large files (videos, etc.) at their original locations instead of uploading them here. (But resources do vanish... so it's not a bad idea to keep a copy!)
-# If a resource no longer exists at its original location, or was never officially made available online, try to find it at the Internet Archive and link to that copy.
-# If there's no other copy publicly accessible online, please consider its copyright status.
-# Do not upload anything that's still available commercially. Instead, add the metadata (title, author, etc.) and describe the contents. Optionally, link to a place where you can buy it.
-# If it's no longer being actively sold, consider whether it would be fair use to excerpt it.
-# Please attribute uploads with their original source and the URL/site/library where they were originally found.
-# Don't upload more of a resource than is relevant to the game. Pages, not entire magazines. Segments of a podcast or show where a subject is discussed, not the whole thing.
-# Don't upload any materials known or likely to provoke DMCA takedowns.
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