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By popular demand: we clipped the public reveal of Banjo-Kazooie from Anthony Parisi's E3 1997 video! This footage (narrated by NOA's Ken Lobb) predates the release of the game by a whole year.

Oh don't worry we have that too

E3 Show Daily 1995 had a page all about the mascots / celebrities of E3. Look at that Rayman costume! archive.gamehistory.org/item/3b8c568... Also, what the hell is going on with the Zoop mascots

E3 Show Daily also covered things like... nightlife? This column from E3 Show Daily 1997 had a list of the week's hottest afterparties. (Sorry, but the Nintendo party is invite-only.)

Each day, E3 Show Daily covered everything around E3, from press releases to booth events. From E3 Show Daily 1998, Day 2: a news announcement for the game that eventually became Shadow Madness, from the former devs of Secret of Evermore archive.gamehistory.org/item/21e7d3f...

Another highlight of our E3 collections: ten years of E3 Show Daily, the magazine that was handed out every day at E3. "Show dailies" might be a new concept to most people, so let's show you what was actually in these... archive.gamehistory.org/folder/ae5ac...

It's easy to take Super Mario 64 for granted, but back when it came out, people were still wrapping their heads around concepts like 3D cameras! Watch this clip of someone learning how to use the C Buttons at E3 1996. "Whoa."

Ever wonder what it was like to experience a 3D game for the first time? We dug into our E3 tapes and found footage of the US press getting their first hands-on with Super Mario 64 at E3 1996

ICYMI: this week Phil Salvador hosts a special episode of the Video Game History Hour podcast featuring Carolyn Rauch and Doug Lowenstein, discussing the origins and evolution of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3): https://gamehistory.org/episode-160-founding-e3/

To answer your demands: yes, this collection includes photos of Gamer Grub Pizza Performance Snack archive.gamehistory.org/item/bcd920e...

The Video Game History Foundation (@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social) is dropping a gift to us all with this massive new collection of E3 materials!

Looking through these photos is insane. I also just literally clicked this random one at the MTV Games booth and found the Mega64 crew LOL! Miss E3 and these photos are so cool to look through. @mega64official.bsky.social

It's hard to pick a favorite photo in this collection, but we love this one of the Ratchet mascot playing Tony Hawk: Ride. The most 2009 photo ever taken

The Carolyn Rauch event ephemera collection also has photos of E3... including this gallery of 1600+ publicity photos from E3 2009. (Yes, really. 1600 photos.) archive.gamehistory.org/item/bcd920e...

New footage of Sega of America's Tom Kalinske taking questions at E3 1995 sometime after the PlayStation "$299 Speech," courtesy of the new Anthony Parisi tape acquired and released by @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

On the Video Game History Hour podcast, Carolyn Rauch and IDSA founder Doug Lowenstein explained why E3 went small for two years, in response to the industry's frustrations about their business conference becoming too hectic, too expensive, and too public

For the game historian sickos: Carolyn Rauch's collection also has rare material from the E3 Media & Business Summit, a small-scale, closed-doors event held in 2007–2008 to replace the gigantic E3, which the industry had soured on archive.gamehistory.org/folder/0b8d5...

Rauch's collection also includes E3 panel transcripts, like the opening keynote of E3 1998 featuring major gaming execs In this excerpt, Nintendo's Howard Lincoln talks about the changing demographics of video games, or as he called it, "the female thing" archive.gamehistory.org/item/5e6324d...

If you've ever wanted to learn how E3 was promoted, the Carolyn Rauch ephemera collection is an exhaustive gallery of programs, postcards, flyers, brochures, and more, spanning over a decade of the event archive.gamehistory.org/item/1e33f3f...

Today, we want to highlight the Carolyn Rauch event ephemera collection, from the long-time organizer of E3 who oversaw the event for almost its entire run. This is one of the world's largest collections of E3 materials! archive.gamehistory.org/folder/e2f96...