Frank Cifaldi (born May 22, 1982) is a video game
preservationist, historian, and developer.
Cifaldi founded ''Lost Levels'', a website that collected information about unreleased video games, in 2003.
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.
He is currently the director of the organization, and has assisted in projects including
Digital Eclipse
Digital Eclipse Entertainment Partners Co. is an American video game developer based in Emeryville, California. Founded by Andrew Ayre in 1992, the company found success developing commercial Video game emulation, emulations of arcade games for ...
's ''
Mega Man Legacy Collection
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'' and ''
The Disney Afternoon Collection'' remasters. Cifaldi would leave Digital Eclipse around 2020 to work on the Video Game History Foundation full time.
He is also known for his extensive personal collection of video game periodicals. Cifaldi has also researched early video game advertising, early
Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles.
The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi ...
prototypes, and the official ''
Super Mario Bros.
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'' release date. He presented on games preservation at the 2016
Game Developers Conference
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. Cifaldi is additionally a former features editor of ''
Gamasutra
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'', and a former host of the Retronauts
podcast
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.
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Living people
People in the video game industry
Media historians
American archivists
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
1982 births
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