Today we'd like to express our gratitude to the game preservation community! Whether you're scanning, dumping, researching, maintaining, programming, interviewing, donating, or any of the other innumerable tasks involved, it's because of your passion that game preservation persists. Thank you! ❤️

We needed an expansion pak just to fit all of this DK64 video in one thread! Actor Steve Sobel is joined by Nintendo employee Brian Hartman, and yet another banana makes it into a Nintendo promotional tape!

Happy 26th birthday to Donkey Kong 64! Rare's enormous Kong collectathon was one of the few Nintendo 64 games to require the expansion pak, and came bundled with the device as a result! Imagine the power you could wield with EIGHT MEGABYTES of RAM!

Happy 27th birthday to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! After the success of Link to the Past, Zelda fans had to wait about 7 years for Link's 3D debut...about as long as Link spent sealed in the Temple of Light! Fortunately, the Hero of Time did not disappoint...and that's putting it mildly!

Two decades ago today, Microsoft redefined the video game console space with the release of the Xbox 360. HD visuals, achievements and Gamerscore, expanded media features, and of course the revamped Xbox Live service were among the many advancements the system brought to the table.

This strategy guide tape is more interesting than it may first appear too; the intro has a short animation done by Nintendo's own Yōichi Kotabe, and one of the game players named in the credits is Satoshi Tajiri, co-founder of Game Freak and creator of Pokémon!

35 years ago today, Nintendo released the Super Famicom in Japan, alongside F-Zero, PilotWings, and most notably: Super Mario World! The impact of Nintendo's 16-bit system cannot be overstated, and its enormous software lineup contains some of the greatest games ever made. Which is your favorite?

Happy 25th birthday to Banjo-Tooie! The ambitious sequel to Banjo-Kazooie continued Rare's trend of pushing the limits of N64 hardware, including in ways that Nintendo had to veto! Anyone else wonder what life might have been like in a "Stop 'n' Swop" timeline? Would our N64s have paid the price?

James Bond Will Return! We've actually got another behind the scenes clip to show you! Listen as Nightfire Producer Joel Wade discusses the art of balancing detail and performance when developing for video game hardware:

Happy 23rd birthday to 007: Nightfire! EA's third entry in the #JamesBond video game franchise made excellent use of Pierce Brosnan's likeness, but it wouldn't be until Everything or Nothing that they got his voice to go along with it!

Happy 24th birthday to the Nintendo Gamecube! We love getting excuses to share clips from one of the rarest items in our archive: watch as Nintendo NTD Software Engineer John Cho debuts the system to NOA employees for the first time! What was your first impression of the funky purple console?

EA's Star Wars: Battlefront turns 10 years old, today! Even a decade later, the game stands out as one of the most authentic-looking #StarWars experiences in any video game, with a level of fidelity and screen-accuracy that few other studios have been able to match! Maybe DICE was using the Force?

Happy 20th birthday to True Crime: New York City! The 2nd game in the series featured an open-world Manhattan, Hollywood talent, and even NYPD consulting, but still fell short of sales expectations. The planned Hong Kong sequel was cancelled, but eventually was reborn as Square Enix's Sleeping Dogs!