[game_preservation] Preservation Whitepaper Brainstorm Progress

[Andrew Armstrong]

There is the website http://www.feelies.org/ which makes new ones for 
old games (and new games) which might be worth looking at if you did 
want them.

Media - the actual videogames bits - should be the easiest to backup 
(the actual format, ie; some hacked NES cart or some floppy disk system, 
is harder but still obtainable as the hardware side is). Generally 
feelies (and manuals) are the hardest, since they are damaged so easily 
through use. Boxes are less difficult to obtain since they're usually 
stored away.

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

>

>     preserving the videogame usually implies preserving these too,

>     although the unnecessary and easily damaged items might be really

>     hard to get

>

>

> I've been wondering just how easy it would be to reproduce copies of 

> these things if they are missing. The same thing is true for disks 

> actually. It should be possible to manufacture new floppy disks (3.5, 

> 5.25, 8) for restoration purposes. If the original hardware is 

> considered essential to playback, then the only thing not working is 

> the medium. Original hardware can be repaired through restoration (but 

> will always become harder and harder to get), but the media itself 

> should be easily replicable if the original is properly archived.

>

> -DM

>

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