Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD

Museum professional and video game historian. Host of Scandalous Games, a podcast that takes a deep dive into video game controversies. He/Him

[Gaming Alexandria @GamingAlexandri]

I dunno if he'll brag on himself so I'll do it for him. @namcostyle has taken a ton of time and uploaded over 1000 previously unscanned magazines provided by @GameHistoryOrg to the Internet Archive! Check them out if you haven't already. Full list here - https://t.co/FM3mMEQZp7

[Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi]

🚨Attention video game preservation fans with money to spare🚨

There are currently TWO unreleased, one-of-a-kind, never-digitized games for the original NES on eBay right now. This has literally never happened before. Our resources are stretched thin, and we could use help.

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

Fellow history/Dracula nerds, I'm giving a virtual talk for the @MutterMuseum #YearofDracula on physiognomy (the pseudoscience of face reading) tomorrow at 6PM. Registration is free: https://t.co/IJ6ihclkua

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

And it's a wrap!

5 years
250 terabytes of data
250,000 pieces of metadata
14,200,000 pages digitized

LONTAD, or "Total Digital Access to the League of Nations Archives", is coming to a close. An impressive work by @UNOGLibrary and partners! 👏🏽
➡️ https://t.co/IHbBvStz3f

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

New Scandalous Games episode! This month, my friends and I start a two-part series on crypto and gaming by looking at blockchain/play-to-earn games. Some for crypto talk, stay for wild stories of digital feudalism, hacks, scams, and terrible ape NFTs. https://t.co/XhEzVRiMKx

[Souvik Mukherjee @Prosperoscell]

My book is out :) https://t.co/sE806H2Xvi

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

New episode of Scandalous Games, my history podcast about video game related controversies, is live! This time we take a closer look at Thrill Kill, perhaps the most violent, horniest game to never see release: https://t.co/LixstTXUU0

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

New Scandalous Games episode! This month, we wrap up our series on the creation of the @ESRBRatings by focusing on the December 9, 1993, congressional hearing on video game violence and how #Nintendo and #Sega desperately tried to dunk on each other: https://t.co/ed9486GEGJ

[The Video Game Library 📚 ➡️ Over on Bluesky @TheVGLibrary]

Ever wonder how those "television games" work? 🕹️

Len Buckwalter tells you how, and more, with this handy guide to the video games phenomenon.

If you're still living in 1977 this entry in #TheVideoGameLibrary is perfect for you! 👇

https://t.co/g83XIIvMPD

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

New Scandalous Games, my podcast on #VideoGame controversies. We continue our multipart series on how we got the @ESRBRatings by looking at the popularity of #MortalKombat and the 1993 #SummerOfViolence https://t.co/GEGMmUuCtM

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

Found this gem while looking through the U.S. trademark records. Definitely don't disagree with it, but I'm surprised you could trademark it.

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

New Scandalous Games episode! This time my friends and I continue our look at the creation of the #ESRB by looking at the weird early 90s tech fad that was the FMV game and how it stoked fears about the future of gaming. https://t.co/0CJVYSAiHs

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

New Scandalous Games! We're starting a multi-part series on how video games got age ratings in the United States, beginning with a look at the early 90s virtual reality craze and how that shaped the way people thought about video games: https://t.co/eSE28mHNpZ

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

In light of @FoxNews recently blaming the Buffalo shooting on violent video games & not on their own racist rhetoric, I think it's worth mentioning a deep dive I recently did on the evolution of "violent video games" as a political issue: https://t.co/gjiSBDco4K

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

One of my favorite things I came across researching the Postal 2 ep. was a letter Running with Scissors head Vince Desi put out to the company mailing list after Computer Gaming World and GMR each gave Postal 2 a zero. Dude didn't take it well...

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

With Postal 4 making its long anticipated (?) release (to unsurprisingly bad reviews), just a reminder we covered the history of Postal and Postal 2 on Scandalous Games: https://t.co/dCkrnVjnqf

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

New episode of Scandalous Games is live! This month, we examine the history of violent video game research, how "violent video games" evolved as a political issue in the US, and the groups that back the studies (and what they gain from it): https://t.co/r7m51G7ass

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

If anyone missed it, @MutterMuseum has published it on their YouTube: https://t.co/mRbC5rgReQ

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

Just another reminder about the virtual talk I'll be giving for @MutterMuseum tomorrow at 6PM. Registration is free!

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

I have a fun announcement: on February 24, I'll be giving a virtual talk for the @MutterMuseum on video games and health during the 1980s. Registration's free so come out and learn about "Space Invaders wrist," "Koop-Man," and more! https://t.co/HTgiTWvCu1

[Kevin D. Impellizeri, PhD @KDImpellizeri]

Latest episode of Scandalous Games is live! This month we look at Postal 2 (Running with Scissors, 2003), its development, reception, and its developers (unsurprising) turn toward the Far Right.
https://t.co/LOF6npNEuW