[game_preservation] Project Discussion: Collectors Information

[Stuart Feldhamer]

Andrew,

 

I might be willing to help out with this as I am a collector and I also know
several other collectors. However, I think it's important to get some of
those concerns answered first so that we know what the goals are.
Specifically:

 

- Who is the information aimed at?

- What information should it be?

 

The answer to the first question should drive the second question. I guess
the third question that underlies the other two is:

 

- What is the goal of gathering this information?

 

Any thoughts on these questions from the group?

 

Thanks,

 

Stuart

 

PS - Where is Back-Bytes? I've never heard of it, and a Google search didn't
turn up anything.



 

From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 8:10 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Project Discussion: Collectors Information

 

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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