[game_preservation] A Triumph Of Game Preservation

[Chris Lepine]

Although I'm a newcomer to this list - I've been lurking here for a  
while - and had a couple of thoughts on this story. Since the WC  
team, Joe Garrity, and Dan Chisarick, among others, did such a  
wonderful job digitally archiving these materials, would any of the  
following ideas make sense:

- Speaking with Joe or the WC people to determine how they went about  
approaching EA and Mythic for the clearances on archiving the  
materials. It might make the job for future archival projects much,  
much easier.
- Possibly putting the WC team in contact with one of the software  
repositories, or physical archive projects, so that they don't have  
to bear the complete burden of storage.
- Assisting in some other way to disseminate archival material?  
Although I'm deeply appreciative of their efforts, the WCnews site is  
hardly an ideal place to disseminate materials.

Etc, etc. I'm just thinking out loud - I'd welcome any input, further  
ideas, or suggestions. Obviously the Game Preservation wiki is  
already loaded with ongoing projects, helping to take advantage of  
such a huge archive seems like an infinitely valuable opportunity.

Cheers,
- Chris
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The Artful Gamer: In Search of the Lyrical and Poetic in Video Games
http://www.artfulgamer.com



> Oh, absolutely. I applaud it, just I've seen several sites I used to

> visit for games now shut down or "lose files", which is never fun.

>

> One thing is that since EA, or someone at Mythic allowed it, they'd

> probably be okay with doing it again sometime in the future or

> something. Who knows? Might be a nice precedent to say "hey, these  

> guys

> were able to do some real good, why can't you?" :)

>

> Andrew

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