[game_preservation] UK National Videogame Archive Visit

[Henry Lowood]

Oh no, I posted to the group!  ;-)

Andrew Armstrong wrote:


> 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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 Film & Media Collections
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