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The Video Game Morgue File is a collection of reference material that anyone can edit.

The aim is to build an archive of information, links and media of value to researchers of video game history, bringing resources that are currently scattered across the internet into one place.

What kind of resources are welcome here?

• Design documents
• Advertising
• Trade press
• Newspaper clippings
• Reviews
• Interviews
• Retrospectives

And all of this is medium-agnostic: whether it's text, graphics, audio, or video, it's all good.

Upload policy

It is the nature of game research that the material from the entire history of videogames is still in its copyright term, and belongs to someone. Whether this material was originally provided voluntarily, and under what terms, is usually unknowable.

As such, unlike other wikis, we can not implement a blanket ban policy on copyrighted material... but we should try to stay on the right side of both fair use and the unwritten rules of acceptable material that cause sites like MobyGames and TCRF to operate with few problems.

1. If it's possible, please link to large files at their original locations instead of uploading here.
2. If it was never officially made available online, or no longer exists at its original location, try to find it at the Internet Archive and link to that copy.
3. If there's no other copy publicly accessible online, please consider its copyright status.
4. If it's no longer being actively sold, consider whether it's fair use.
5. Don't upload anything with a known history of DMCA reaction or other litigation.
6. Never upload more than is relevant. Pages, not entire magazines. Segments of a podcast or show where a subject is discussed, not the whole thing.

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."