[game_preservation] Calling for resources! Books! Websites! Whatever!

[Andrew Armstrong]

Just a note - thanks again for these Chris! I managed to sort adding 
them along with my two reference books to the list. More welcome from 
anyone however, especially with notes like Chris has, since I don't 
really want to source books randomly off Amazon if I don't know what is 
in them first!

Andrew

Chris Lepine wrote:

> Hi Andrew,

>

> I can recommend a few books on the subject of video games that I've 

> read over the years. AFAIK, none are available as a free download ... 

> but they do provide a great sense of game history:

>

> Dungeons and Desktops, by Matt Barton

> http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Desktops-History-Computer-Role-playing/dp/1568814119

> (probably the most comprehensive history of role playing games ever 

> written - he literally reviews a huge number of games, talks about 

> their design, style, etc)

>

> Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop 

> Culture, by David Kushner

> http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0375505245

> (the history of id software - very good storytelling, and insights 

> into the personalities of the two Johns)

>

> The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon, by Steven 

> L. Kent

> http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-History-Video-Games-Pokemon/dp/0761536434

> (more of a referential history of video games)

>

> Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to 

> Chic, by Brad King & John Borland

> http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dreamers-Rise-Computer-Culture/dp/0072228881

> (some good storytelling that follows the life of Richard Garriott 

> among others - it gave me a good sense for how Ultima was conceived in 

> relation to his personal life)

>

> Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game 

> Programmers, by James Hague

> http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/

> (free, interesting, interviews with some of the big names of the 80s 

> and early 90s - it gave me a sense for the development challenges that 

> developers face)

>

> And although these are only tangentially related, books on the 

> development of the Commodore 64 and Apple //e are extremely important 

> for understanding the history of video games as they helped to create 

> the possibility for mass-market computer games:

>

> Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy

> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/729

>

> On The Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore, by Brian Bagnall

> http://www.variantpress.com/books/on-the-edge

> (seems to be temporarily Out of Stock)

>

> Hope that helps.

>

> - Chris

>

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>

>> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:44:36 +0000

>> From: Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org 

>> <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>>

>> Subject: [game_preservation] Calling for resources! Books! Websites!

>> Whatever!

>> To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG <game_preservation at igda.org 

>> <mailto:game_preservation at igda.org>>

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>> I'm now board of not updating the resources and projects pages:

>>

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

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

>>

>> I need your links, books, website and whatever you think is historically 

>> related to videogames. I'm more aiming at broader sites with videogame 

>> knowledge (so I'll be adding http://www.wikia.com/ and  

>> http://www.magweasel.com/ for instance). However, if you can provide a 

>> specific article, great! (better if it covers more then one game 

>> however).

>>

>> I will be trying (in between getting a job, grr, and doing some other 

>> bits) sorting out the page at least filling it with random links for 

>> now. In the future I hope to get the domains I've had for a while for 

>> the Digital Game Canon project online and with a quick and dirty 

>> PHP/MySQL solution so I can add these links in much better ways (so I 

>> can tag them, have source lines generated, have boxes for the URL or 

>> item name, page references, etc.).

>>

>> ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED! Honestly, there are a LOT of sites I've visited 

>> I need to add now, but also there are a lot I have not! One of them may 

>> be yours! Post it!

>>

>> And if there is any other site which helps list game 

>> history/preservation projects, resources and links, please, I'd love to 

>> know of it :)

>>

>> Thanks,

>>

>> Andrew

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