The William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection

The William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection

The William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection (WHGSC) at Stony Brook University is dedicated to documenting the material culture of screen-based game media in general and in specific, collecting and preserving the texts, ephemera, and artifacts that document the history of a 1958 computer simulation designed by Higinbotham that, over the years, has become known as Tennis for Two. The collection is managed and curated by Head of Special Collections and University Archives, and University Archivist, Kristen J. Nyitray, and Associate Professor of Culture and Technology, Raiford Guins.

Ultra Software Company

Ultra Software Company

Ultra Games was a subsidiary publishing label of Konami. It was a shell company created to get around the strict Nintendo America licencing laws that limited third party publishers to a maximum of five NES titles per year. Konami established Ultra Games to expand its...