[game_preservation] MASSIVE e-bay auction in the UK

[Dan Pinchbeck]

Hi Mike

Hell, if you're looking for a home, we'd always take it. May be worth contacting the UK Games Archive too. We're not public, obviously, but we'd certainly look after it! Let me know if no-one else takes you up (like that's going to happen!)


:)


Dan

Dr Dan Pinchbeck
Advanced Games Research Group
School of Creative Technologies
University of Portsmouth, UK

www.thechineseroom.co.uk
www.keep.port.ac.uk

>>> Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> 30/04/09 2:44 PM >>>

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Well, we have got a lagging project to get information on collectors ;) 

> (reminds me I need to write up the projects and send out info to get 

> some ideas going, although I don't think we have the people and time to 

> do all the ideas).

> 

> The SIG itself can't exactly store anything, but the members who have 

> collections, archives and museums can :) but usually collectors don't 

> donate a great deal of their material over time - they usually sell it, 

> or pass it on to other collectors, or this is the impression I've got 

> from actually talking to them (except for the odd few who do really 

> donate things, which is awesome).


I ask because I finally got to the point recently where I desire to get 
rid of my NES collection. It consists of an official top loading NES 
control deck and ~70 games (most valuable ones are original Final 
Fantasy, Dragon Warrior II, and all 6 Mega Man games). I don't really 
care about making a profit from it. And if there was a museum group to 
donate it to, I wouldn't mind handing it over.

-- 
     -Mike Melanson
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