[game_preservation] Project Discussion: Collectors Information

[Andrew Armstrong]

First project bump. I want to see if any new members have any ideas or 
thoughts on this topic, please read below to see my original post.

I am going to do field research into this when I visit Back-Bytes, a 
retro gaming event in March. While I'm forming my own questions, and 
will be asking several people about the hobby, and about how it is 
relevant to historians etc., *I'd welcome any input for questions or 
areas that I should ask about*, I am not a collector and have really 
next to nothing but "common knowledge" of what they do :)

Hopefully this will, at the very least, gain some links to communities, 
forums, websites, magazines and relevant media or coverage of it all.

I'll also be reporting on the event for the SIG with photos and notes ;) 
there should be some interesting stuff from Ocean and Jon Hare, among 
others, and I'll actually be trying some of the games systems I've never 
touched before I bet, as well as hopefully grabbing one of the computer 
museums I've got noted on our contributions page for a chat too. I'll 
try and get this up before GDC, with possible varying degrees of success. :)

Andrew

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> This is coming on from our previous discussion over spring cleaning 

> the SIG.

>

> *Collectors Information*

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Collectors

> Status: /On Hold/

> Currently lead by: /No one. /

> Short description: /A set of resource pages on the area of videogame 

> collectors. When complete, will hold information on the reasons behind 

> it, the communities that are based on it, and who gets involved in the 

> work. This will be aimed at people interested in the area for whatever 

> reason (such as tracking information not held in public archives or 

> online) rather then for collectors themselves./

>

> Concerns raised previously:

> - What information should it be

> - Who should be contacted to get the information

> - Who is the information aimed at

>

> This needs someone to run it. Someone who basically can collect the 

> information and update the wiki with it. There are plenty of reasons I 

> can't do it very well, the main one being is I am not a collector and 

> barely venture into the area much. I am willing to do some of the 

> legwork but a collector who knows where to find information, who to 

> contact and interview, what information would be relevant to an 

> archivist, historian or developer, and so on is required.

>

> If you want to take lead on this, it shouldn't be much work - I'm 

> looking for more depth then Wikipedia, but less then a book on the 

> subject. Some "rough guide to videogame collectors and their hobby" 

> would suffice.

>

> I know some information was already raised, and if I am left with 

> doing this I'll follow some of it up and possibly get someone not on 

> the SIG list to do this project partially (at least providing the 

> information to me).

>

> Andrew

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