With over 30,000 games in the collection that will be the beginning of the permanent, public Videogame History Museum, Joe Santulli is looking for some funding.  Along with some of his friends, Santulli (who has been seen pimping his collection at various conventions, including E3) is hoping for about $30,000 to get started with a new home for gamers and gaming history buffs.

However, it just isn’t coming together. The news is disappointing for Santulli and many fans of games gone by who were hoping for a tribute area of epic proportions.  Some of his potential investors, for various reasons, seem to be balking at the concept, leaving the museum currently short of the start-up funding it is going to need.

It isn’t like this is Santulli’s first attempt from building an idea up from scratch.  He started a successful mail order fan-zine in the nineties, which actually helped him to spread the word about his current project.  Through his work with Digital Press, he was able to compile the first ever list of every video game known to man…the collector’s bible of its day.

In the late nineties, he helped to organize what is now known as the Classic Gaming Expo.  Yes, it seems as if Santulli has been an intricate part of the retro gaming world since before retro was retro!

With any luck, this latest endeavor will be added to his list of retro gaming accomplishments and the Videogame History Museum will become a reality for all gamers to visit. Read a detailed story about Joe Santulli and this adventure here, or visit the fundraising webpage to help.  Time is money…literally in this case…and every dime pledged will count.

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