- Started by Garrett "Mek" Dockery on August 20, 1999 out of his need to have screenshots for as many games as possible, the site was originally called Gamepics. On December 12, 1999 the first game scans were added to the site and they became so popular that by January 14, 2000 the sub-site Gamescans was online, followed quickly by merging off these two sites into the Video Game Museum, launching officially on January 26, 2000. In the following months and years after the merge, more sections such as Game Endings, Sprite Rips, Game Ads and Game Reviews were added, various redesigns were applied to the site, several staff members joined and left building the VGMuseum as it is today. The site is updated and maintained by staff members Rey and Oli with Mek serving as the webmaster.

      - a fat boys.

      - Mek:
      - E-Mail: VGMuseum at gmail.com
      - AIM: Mek3D
      - ICQ: 32549872

      - Rey:
      - E-Mail: reyvgm at hotmail.com
      - AIM: ReyVGM

      - Oli:
      - E-Mail: lazyoli at yahoo.com
      - AIM: lllazyoliv
      - ICQ: 168663456

      - Forgive us, but it's not our fault. We are being hosted for free and we don't have money to pay for a private server. In return the server administrators fill the site with malicious pop-ups and pop-unders to cover their costs. But this is not a problem found just here, there are pop-ups everywhere on the internet and your best bet to avoid getting them is to download a pop-up blocker (Google toolbar or Kazaa Lite's pop-up blockers work wonders) or to use a respected web browser such as FireFox.

      - You can send anywhere between 10 and 60 shots per game. Enough to get a good look at the title screen, introduction, character select screen, story intermissions, boss preludes, level bosses, different levels and anything else that might look interesting. Please don't take a pack of screen captures of the same looking part of a level, instead take one or two shots of each stage as long as it looks different.
Example: A game like Pac Man doesn't need a lot of images since all the levels look basically the same, but a game like Super Mario World would since the levels and world maps are varied.

      - The resolution should be 300 DPI or higher. At least 1,000 - 2,000 pixels for the long side of the scan. And save them as high quality .JPG. Same goes for Game Ads. It would help us greatly if you could split the front and back. Also take a look at the guideline for sending in gamepics. Same applies to scans.