[game_preservation] Let's Play collection at the Internet Archive

[Andrew Armstrong]

We now have a Let's Play <http://www.archive.org/details/lets-play> 
collection at the Internet Archive, for all those videos that are 
getting popular where someone plays through a game with commentary. I 
contacted the Let's Play Archive <http://www.letsplayarchive.com/>, 
who's admin was willing to upload at least the videos he was able to get 
from the Let's Play things available from his site (which he runs for 
the SomethingAwful group). Should be good to have these available to 
download and in a permanent location. Hopefully there'll be a few around 
soon and I'll put the news up on the blog then.

For anyone who doesn't know what these videos are, from my (okay) 
description:

    Let's Play videos show the videogame being played while the player
    speaks about what he is doing in real time commentary. Generally the
    playthroughs are spread over several segments of play (varying in
    time). Rarely some action is done "off screen" or speeded up to not
    get too repetitive, but in most cases the playthrough is a complete
    run of the game including all "Game Overs" and deaths. The videos
    are a usually humorous way to learn about a videogame without having
    to play it.


Let's Play Trespasser <http://www.archive.org/details/LPTrespasser> was 
the test case (and might still be finalising in the IA's system, but can 
be watched now).

I'll also try and source some additional videos, and if anyone has any 
sources for these (or does them themselves) contacting me or the Let's 
Play Archive can get them up there.

Finally, thanks to Simon for helping get this up and for saying to 
research it :-) If I find any other major videogame video communities 
I'll be sure to try for collections or uploads for them too.

Andrew
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