[game_preservation] Project Discussion: Collectors Information

[Andrew Armstrong]

Urg, teach me not to read. Byte-Back, here, have a URL: 
http://byte-back.info/index.html

Andrew

Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

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> Back-Bytes -- that's what you said before, isn't it?

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> Stuart

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> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org 

> [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Andrew 

> Armstrong

> *Sent:* Monday, February 16, 2009 2:21 PM

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

> *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] Project Discussion: Collectors 

> Information

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> Sorry, it was Back-Bytes. ;)

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> The information should be aimed at helping historians and 

> preservationists. The goal is to facilitate the necessary flow of 

> information if historians can't find it themselves - collectors are 

> knowledgeable historians in their own domains. Knowing what they do, 

> how they do it, and how to contact them/get their help is a good idea.

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> At least that'd be my aim for it. There is no "one stop shop" for 

> communities of collectors, a news driven website, and of course, there 

> is absolutely no group I know of dedicated to facilitating 

> communication between them (at least in an information capacity). 

> These people are some of the most dedicated people to preserving 

> things (even if only for their own collections sometimes), so well 

> worth noting them somewhere, if we don't directly do anything right now :)

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> Thanks Stuart!

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> Andrew

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> Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

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> Andrew,

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> 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:

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> - Who is the information aimed at?

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> - What information should it be?

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> The answer to the first question should drive the second question. I 

> guess the third question that underlies the other two is:

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> - What is the goal of gathering this information?

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> Any thoughts on these questions from the group?

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> Thanks,

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> PS -- Where is Back-Bytes? I've never heard of it, and a Google search 

> didn't turn up anything.

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> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org 

> <mailto: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

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> 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.

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> 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 :)

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> Hopefully this will, at the very least, gain some links to 

> communities, forums, websites, magazines and relevant media or 

> coverage of it all.

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> 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. :)

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> Andrew

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> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

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

> the SIG.

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> *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./

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> Concerns raised previously:

> - What information should it be

> - Who should be contacted to get the information

> - Who is the information aimed at

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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).

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> Andrew

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