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We now have a <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/lets-play">Let's
Play</a> collection at the Internet Archive, for all those videos that
are getting popular where someone plays through a game with commentary.
I contacted the <a href="http://www.letsplayarchive.com/">Let's Play
Archive</a>, who's admin was willing to upload at least the videos he
was able to get from the Let's Play things available from his site
(which he runs for the SomethingAwful group). Should be good to have
these available to download and in a permanent location. Hopefully
there'll be a few around soon and I'll put the news up on the blog then.<br>
<br>
For anyone who doesn't know what these videos are, from my (okay)
description:<br>
<br>
<blockquote>Let's Play videos show the videogame being played while the
player speaks about what he is doing in real time commentary. Generally
the playthroughs are spread over several segments of play (varying in
time). Rarely some action is done "off screen" or speeded up to not get
too repetitive, but in most cases the playthrough is a complete run of
the game including all "Game Overs" and deaths. The videos are a
usually humorous way to learn about a videogame without having to play
it.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/LPTrespasser">Let's Play
Trespasser</a> was the test case (and might still be finalising in the
IA's system, but can be watched now).<br>
<br>
I'll also try and source some additional videos, and if anyone has any
sources for these (or does them themselves) contacting me or the Let's
Play Archive can get them up there.<br>
<br>
Finally, thanks to Simon for helping get this up and for saying to
research it :-) If I find any other major videogame video communities
I'll be sure to try for collections or uploads for them too.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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