[game_preservation] UK National Videogame Archive Visit

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hahaha, I hope you notice before reading this but you did just promote 
it to the group ^_^ - well, it's out in the open now. Unconfirmed 
though! Let's just hope they don't get rid of the only historical thing 
during the entire GDC week (we should petition for the Digital Game 
Canon session to be brought back next time too if we get a chance).

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> Hey Andrew,

>

> watch out with the "elite journalist" tag!  We just went through an 

> election in which elitists and journalists were given black eyes, so 

> the combination would be very dangerous.  :-)

>

> I hope someone from NVA will be at the roundtable next year, though 

> I'm waiting to announce the roundtable to the SIG until final approval 

> for the program.  So, I won't put anything about it in this message to 

> the group.  ;-0

>

> Henry

>

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

>> Hey all,

>>

>> I visited Tom Woolley at the start of the National Videogame Archive 

>> <http://www.nationalvideogamearchive.org/> at the National Media 

>> Museum <http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/> in Bradford, UK today 

>> - on behalf of the SIG in fact :)

>>

>> I wrote up a report on my site 

>> <http://aarmstrong.org/journal/2008/11/05/national-videogame-archive-visit> 

>> because I can't upload images 

>> <http://aarmstrong.org/gallery/v/photos/visits/nva/> on our 

>> Preservation blog (I wonder if anyone noticed ;) ) - check out the 

>> pictures, I took a picture of most of the stuff, this archive is 

>> *very very* new and new to the Museum in most ways.

>>

>> I have also put a link from our blog too 

>> <http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2008/11/preservation_si.html>. 

>> I'll be getting an interview with him at some point to get some 

>> better detail and it was a good discussion I had about the state of 

>> things currently - should be good!

>>

>> This is a start of the IGDA Game Preservation SIG's elite 

>> journalistic hack team! I'm willing to do more reports and interviews 

>> if people are interested in reading them (they do take my time up 

>> after all) - and I also need, obviously, people to interview or 

>> report about, so post if anything comes up.

>>

>> Once the new IGDA site is complete I'll be able to upload images (or 

>> I'd better be able to!), and make the site much better, allowing me 

>> to /actually do this on the real site/ , yay! :)

>>

>> Andrew

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