India, Dec. 13 -- It's easy enough to flip to a livestream, or turn to a Reddit or Discord page today, for help with a hard-to-beat level in a videogame, or for news on when the next sequel will be released.

In the years before high-speed internet, though, the only way to do any of this was through gaming magazines. Publications such as Crash, Game Informer, PC Gamer and Nintendo Power served as lifelines, offering news, reviews, cheat codes, interviews, and in some cases, free demos on floppy disks or CDs. They were the first hubs for the gaming community.

Today, that world has largely disappeared.

A new project is trying to preserve what remains. Video Game History Foundation (VGHF), a non-profit organisation based in California, rec...