[game_preservation] A Triumph Of Game Preservation

[Captain Commando]

Chris, I've been listening in, and these suggestions make perfect sense. You
think we should have PT Boat awards?

-DM

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Chris Lepine <chris at artfulgamer.com> wrote:


> 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

> ---

> 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

>

>

> _______________________________________________

> game_preservation mailing list

> game_preservation at igda.org

> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation

>

>



-- 
The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

"Until next time..."
Captain Commando
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/attachments/20080812/a5f53508/attachment.html>