Dan Mons

Interview with eXo: PC, MS-DOS and Windows game preservationist

“Preservation” is a term we hear frequently in the retro video game community, and one that is extremely important to the art form of video games.  Despite being such a young industry compared to other art forms such as novels, music or film, video games have arguably been some of the most difficult content to […]

Dan Mons

Strong National Museum of Play obtains Super Mario Bros 3 for PC disk

ArsTechnica reports that the Strong National Museum of Play have obtained a floppy disk containing id Software’s original Super Mario Bros 3 PC demo. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/museum-obtains-rare-demo-of-id-softwares-super-mario-bros-3-pc-port/ Andrew Borman, the museum’s Digital Games Curator, mentioned that the disk was a part of a larger donation set given to the museum by an unnamed software developer.  The developer […]