[game_preservation] Preservation Whitepaper Brainstorm Progress

[Henry Lowood]

One other point on this: Frequently, esp. with Infocom but also with 
other companies, codes for starting the game (i.e., verifying that you 
were playing from a purchased copy) were available only through manuals 
or even special code-rings and such.   Maybe somebody said this already.

Henry

Jim Leonard wrote:

> Devin Monnens wrote:

>> How relevant are, say, cloth maps from Ultima? Originally, I think 

>> this sort of thing was used to 'enhance the experience,' but I 

>> haven't read anything regarding how much that really DOES affect 

>> player experience. Nowadays, I just consider most of that stuff to be 

>> schwag.

>

> Some included materials were absolutely necessary to get anywhere in 

> the game (newspaper in Tass Times in Tonetown, business card in 

> Transylvania, etc.).  They contained information not in the game code.


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