From andrew at aarmstrong.org Mon Sep 1 16:43:26 2008 From: andrew at aarmstrong.org (Andrew Armstrong) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:43:26 +0100 Subject: [game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Updates] September 2008 Message-ID: <48BC53EE.9030807@aarmstrong.org> September 2008 With September the 1st comes a new monthly roundup. There's been bits and pieces of activity, some interesting articles and other odds and ends. Preservation SIG Updates First off, the Whitepaper effort has been launched by Henry! This has had exactly no contributors yet, so make sure to get on the mailing list or wiki to add your thoughts. Anything, from basic information, ideas and resource links to paper titles, core concepts and examples of why videogame preservation is needed are all welcome. Please send this out to anyone who might be interested in editing or writing for the paper, or who can contribute some information to it. I'll be adding up some basic information this month, hopefully encouraging others :) The memorial project has had a new entry for Dave Pridie who died in 2001, contributed by Christopher Bretz. The Contributions page, where museums and archives will be listed who can accept material from game developers, has now been started. There are 3 listed locations, including our own member's Zach Vowell's UT archive and two UK computer museums. I am planning to email more, but if anyone knows some in person and can gather some information for this list in the form that already exists in these examples, it'd be very welcome! (And if anyone can speak Japanese, there is likely a few in Japan I'd love to add, so give me a shout if you can help translate!) Finally I've been more organised in uploading a good amount of videos to the Internet Archive . Among the uploades are several years of E3 footage before it "changed" by Andrew Mehta, for 2004 , 2005 and 2006 , as well as the partially finished documentary on videogames - What's Next for Videogames? . As noted last month, I have uploaded half of Pure Pwnage . In addition, the "Meet The " Team Fortress 2 videos from Valve are uploaded. There are a few more interviews from Kikizo , and a few odd previews too bringing up the Previews collection to a nice round 2,200 videos. September Preservation SIG Work The contributions and whitepaper sections need attention and I need to finish templates to update the resources and projects listings - hopefully once more organised, should be more up to date. The Memorials project is ongoing. Anyone who wants to lend a hand or has any ideas for further project work post on our mailing list. Mailing List Discussions If you've not joined our mailing list , please do so. We've never tried using our forums it seems :) we stick to old-fangled email. Recently there's been discussions on the Wing Commander IP preservation, the interview of Joe Santulli (collector, see link below), and on Recreating old development environments after a Megaman 9 interview came online. Read the past discussions for August here . Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links Note: Have I missed anything? Then email it in. I really should get a "Preservation newsdesk" email setup, there's a lot more I simply don't know about which I keep missing. This is all the August updates not included in the previous newsletter: * Call to Action: Game Preservation SIG White Paper brainstorming! * University of Texas at Austin Looks at MMO Preservation * Wing Commander Archiving Project * Mario, Luigi & Bill O'Reilly * Inside Nintendo's Classic Game Console * Game Libratory at CRCA, UCSD (NOTCOT) * The Beginnings of Sierra Part 1 * PacMan: The Other Movie * Sega CD 101: A Beginner's Guide * The Beginnings of Sierra Part 2 * Chinese Chrono Trigger NES Cart * The SEGA Game Archive * Internet Archive E3 Footage from 2004-2006 * What's Next For Videogames? Documentary Extract at the IA * Preserving Video Games UT Project Website launched * Baldur's Gate 10th Anniversary * Count Pixel's Top five classic games * Writing the history of virtual worlds * The TRON design documents * Steve Meretzky profiled "Sign of the Crab" * The History Of Nintendo * Atari: The Golden Years -- A History, 1978-1981 * Warcraft 3 Commentary and History * MSN interviews Joe Santulli * The rise and fall of Full Throttle: a conversation with Bill Tiller * Nintendo 64 101 Final Thoughts The Whitepaper has officially started, so I hope we all can contribute a few words to its content, else you'll get another annoying note next month about it not having much done on it :) in any case, hope the end of Summer has been good! Thanks all, Andrew Armstrong IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ommail at cox.net Wed Sep 24 15:08:49 2008 From: ommail at cox.net (ommail at cox.net) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:08:49 -0400 Subject: [game_preservation] Say hello to the new guy! Message-ID: <20080924150849.J7A76.422340.imail@eastrmwml45> Greetings All. Chris Lepine was kind enough to email me, and let me know about this list. Some people I know personally, some only by reputation, and some not at all. I just wanted to give a big Hi to everyone, and thank you to the moderators of the mailing list. Some background on me: I'm Joe Garrity, and I run a (horribly incomplete) website called The Origin Museum. I specialize in preserving and archiving gaming artifacts related to Origin Systems. My experiences in game preservation are varied, but I don't like to think of myself as an 'expert'. I will be asking many questions during my time here, and I hope that folks are nice enough to share their knowledgebase, and give advice. Mostly, my focus is on preserving the physical artifacts--game boxes and manuals, design documentation, artwork, props, promotional material, etc. Some of the Museum's accomplishments can be found on our website--take a look, and you'll see what I mean: http://www.originmuseum.net/accomp.htm On the digital front, I was recently involved in a joint-effort with the Wing Commander News guys, to archive what was left of EA's holdings of Origin (as Chris reported last month). It was a real blast to be a part of that effort, and I certainly learned a lot about digital archiving. well, I hope that I can do my part in way of game preservation. If anyone thinks that I can help with any projects, or needs info on the Museum's collection, I'm always glad to provide. "...Preserving Worlds..." Joe Garrity Origin Museum http://www.originmuseum.net From lowood at stanford.edu Wed Sep 24 16:06:42 2008 From: lowood at stanford.edu (Henry Lowood) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:06:42 -0700 Subject: [game_preservation] Say hello to the new guy! In-Reply-To: <20080924150849.J7A76.422340.imail@eastrmwml45> References: <20080924150849.J7A76.422340.imail@eastrmwml45> Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20080924130516.061455f8@stanford.edu> Hi Joe, welcome to the group. Not that I am going to show up on your doorstep, but where is your collection physically located? Is it possible for people to see the materials you have collected? Henry At 12:08 PM 9/24/2008, ommail at cox.net wrote: >Greetings All. > >Chris Lepine was kind enough to email me, and let me know about this >list. Some people I know personally, some only by reputation, and >some not at all. I just wanted to give a big Hi to everyone, and >thank you to the moderators of the mailing list. > >Some background on me: > >I'm Joe Garrity, and I run a (horribly incomplete) website called >The Origin Museum. I specialize in preserving and archiving gaming >artifacts related to Origin Systems. My experiences in game >preservation are varied, but I don't like to think of myself as an >'expert'. I will be asking many questions during my time here, and >I hope that folks are nice enough to share their knowledgebase, and >give advice. >Mostly, my focus is on preserving the physical artifacts--game boxes >and manuals, design documentation, artwork, props, promotional >material, etc. Some of the Museum's accomplishments can be found on >our website--take a look, and you'll see what I mean: >http://www.originmuseum.net/accomp.htm > >On the digital front, I was recently involved in a joint-effort with >the Wing Commander News guys, to archive what was left of EA's >holdings of Origin (as Chris reported last month). It was a real >blast to be a part of that effort, and I certainly learned a lot >about digital archiving. > >well, I hope that I can do my part in way of game preservation. If >anyone thinks that I can help with any projects, or needs info on >the Museum's collection, I'm always glad to provide. > >"...Preserving Worlds..." >Joe Garrity >Origin Museum >http://www.originmuseum.net >_______________________________________________ >game_preservation mailing list >game_preservation at igda.org >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation Henry Lowood, Ph.D. Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections; Film & Media Collections HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall Stanford University Libraries Stanford CA 94305-6004 650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew at aarmstrong.org Wed Sep 24 17:14:19 2008 From: andrew at aarmstrong.org (Andrew Armstrong) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:14:19 +0100 Subject: [game_preservation] Say hello to the new guy! In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20080924130516.061455f8@stanford.edu> References: <20080924150849.J7A76.422340.imail@eastrmwml45> <6.2.5.6.2.20080924130516.061455f8@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <48DAADAB.2020408@aarmstrong.org> Hi new guy Joe! :) Nice website, I suppose there is a physical collection somewhere (and yeah, it'd be cool to know where or how you'd get to see the stuff!). It'd be nice to have details if you accept donations for our Contributions/Donations page if you accept such things :) (contact me off list if you're interested in helping with info for the page). Andrew Henry Lowood wrote: > Hi Joe, > > welcome to the group. > > Not that I am going to show up on your doorstep, but where is your > collection physically located? Is it possible for people to see the > materials you have collected? > > Henry > > At 12:08 PM 9/24/2008, ommail at cox.net wrote: >> Greetings All. >> >> Chris Lepine was kind enough to email me, and let me know about this >> list. Some people I know personally, some only by reputation, and >> some not at all. I just wanted to give a big Hi to everyone, and >> thank you to the moderators of the mailing list. >> >> Some background on me: >> >> I'm Joe Garrity, and I run a (horribly incomplete) website called The >> Origin Museum. I specialize in preserving and archiving gaming >> artifacts related to Origin Systems. My experiences in game >> preservation are varied, but I don't like to think of myself as an >> 'expert'. I will be asking many questions during my time here, and I >> hope that folks are nice enough to share their knowledgebase, and >> give advice. >> Mostly, my focus is on preserving the physical artifacts--game boxes >> and manuals, design documentation, artwork, props, promotional >> material, etc. Some of the Museum's accomplishments can be found on >> our website--take a look, and you'll see what I mean: >> http://www.originmuseum.net/accomp.htm >> >> On the digital front, I was recently involved in a joint-effort with >> the Wing Commander News guys, to archive what was left of EA's >> holdings of Origin (as Chris reported last month). It was a real >> blast to be a part of that effort, and I certainly learned a lot >> about digital archiving. >> >> well, I hope that I can do my part in way of game preservation. 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URL: From ommail at cox.net Thu Sep 25 05:12:54 2008 From: ommail at cox.net (ommail at cox.net) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 5:12:54 -0400 Subject: [game_preservation] Say hello to the new guy! Message-ID: <20080925051254.WNXJ8.276.imail@eastrmwml34> ----------------- Henry Lowood said: Not that I am going to show up on your doorstep, but where is your collection physically located? Is it possible for people to see the materials you have collected? ------------------ Hi Henry! Sorry about the multiple thread post, but I'm not recieving email yet--just gotta cut-n-paste to reply. The Museum is located outside Washington DC, in beautiful Alexandria, Virginia. We have no standard public facilites, running the Museum out of the bottom floor of my home. We do allow public access by appointment, allowing folks to visit on their way through our nation's capitol. Although we hold no liquor license, beverages *can be* made available from time to time. ;) We've had many people visit the Museum over the years, coming as far away as the UK. Some of the more prominent people who have come to see our collection have been the staff of Wing Commander News, famed Ultima collector Underworl Dragon [www.notableultima.com], and David Watson, famed crossbow maker, and the person who Richard Garriott based the character 'Iolo' on, in the Ultima series. It pales to Stanford University, but If you are ever in the Washington DC area, please let us know. We welcome new visitors. Joe From ommail at cox.net Thu Sep 25 05:14:45 2008 From: ommail at cox.net (ommail at cox.net) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 5:14:45 -0400 Subject: [game_preservation] Say hello to the new guy! Message-ID: <20080925051445.LPEB6.278.imail@eastrmwml34> ----------------- Henry Lowood said: Not that I am going to show up on your doorstep, but where is your collection physically located? Is it possible for people to see the materials you have collected? ------------------ Hi Henry! Sorry about the multiple thread post, but I'm not recieving email yet--just gotta cut-n-paste to reply. The Museum is located outside Washington DC, in beautiful Alexandria, Virginia. We have no standard public facilites, running the Museum out of the bottom floor of my home. We do allow public access by appointment, allowing folks to visit on their way through our nation's capitol. Although we hold no liquor license, beverages *can be* made available from time to time. ;) We've had many people visit the Museum over the years, coming as far away as the UK. Some of the more prominent people who have come to see our collection have been the staff of Wing Commander News, famed Ultima collector Underworl Dragon [www.notableultima.com], and David Watson, famed crossbow maker, and the person who Richard Garriott based the character 'Iolo' on, in the Ultima series. It pales to Stanford University, but If you are ever in the Washington DC area, please let us know. We welcome new visitors. Joe From ommail at cox.net Thu Sep 25 05:32:12 2008 From: ommail at cox.net (ommail at cox.net) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 5:32:12 -0400 Subject: [game_preservation] Say hello to the new guy! Message-ID: <20080925053212.KOTFW.300.imail@eastrmwml34> ------------------------ Andrew Armstrong wrote: Hi new guy Joe! :) Nice website, I suppose there is a physical collection somewhere (and yeah, it'd be cool to know where or how you'd get to see the stuff!). ----------------------- Thanks Andrew. Yes, the physical collection is viewable--see my other post. -------------------- It'd be nice to have details if you accept donations for our Contributions/Donations page if you accept such things :) ------------------- Nice of you to offer Andrew, but since the Museum was started as a personal collection, we don't publicly accept donations, and we never actively sought donations from anyone. In the past, if donations were offered, we would accept them, but now if we are offered any Origin-related games or materials, we almost always recommend that the donor contact the University of Texas Videogame Archives. ------------------------------ (contact me off list if you're interested in helping with info for the page). ----------------------------- I will. Joe From evilcowclone at gmail.com Sun Sep 28 15:13:19 2008 From: evilcowclone at gmail.com (Captain Commando) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:13:19 -0600 Subject: [game_preservation] IGDA Memorial Article Message-ID: I just finished a draft of an article about the IGDA Game Developers Memorial Project. I've attached it here for review. I'm hoping I got it done in time to go in the IGDA Journal that Beth is helping produce, but we'll see! Please feel free to give any feedback. In addition, I'm going to try contacting some people from the GDC Awards Committee to see if we can't get a memorial video produced in time for this year's ceremony. Thankfully, I met Hal Barwood at the GDC and Tommy Tallarico is supposedly fairly easy to get ahold of... I can also give Raph Koster a buzz. ( www.gamechoiceawards.com/advisory.htm ). I'm not sure who would be in charge of producing the video, but we could at least convince them they need one! -Devin Monnens -- The sleep of Reason produces monsters. 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