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Frank Cifaldi
Video game archivist, historian, and developer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Cifaldi (born May 22, 1982)[1] is a video game preservationist, historian, and developer.
Frank Cifaldi | |
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![]() Cifaldi at the 2024 Game Developers Conference | |
Born | (1982-05-22) May 22, 1982 (age 42) |
Occupation(s) | Video game archivist, historian, and developer |
Known for | Founding the Video Game History Foundation
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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]