Zach,<div><br></div><div>This is pretty cool! Would it be too late to add information on Punchatz?</div><div><br></div><div>-Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Vowell, Zach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zvowell@austin.utexas.edu">zvowell@austin.utexas.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Last week we installed an exhibit featuring materials from the UT Videogame<br>
Archive out at the Austin airport. It will be up until January 20, 2010, so<br>
if you'll be travelling through or stuck in the Austin airport, be sure to<br>
check it out. The exhibit cases and posters are spread out throughout the<br>
main concourse.<br>
<br>
Here's a link from our website that gives a bit more information:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/videogamearchive/item_102809.html" target="_blank">http://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/videogamearchive/item_102809.html</a><br>
<br>
When putting the exhibit together, my primary aim was to broaden awareness<br>
about game preservation and explain the need for videogame archives in<br>
general, so hopefully some of that will rub off on at least a few passersby.<br>
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And I thought I'd add that one of the exhibit cases features the DOOM box<br>
cover, and might serve as a inadequate but visible memorial for the late Don<br>
Ivan Punchatz. There isn't any text identifying Punchatz, but we do<br>
identify the game as a classic (of course, everyone here knows that, but<br>
your average air-traveller may not).<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Zach Vowell<br>
Archivist, UT Videogame Archive<br>
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History<br>
University of Texas at Austin<br>
512.495.4405<br>
<a href="http://www.utvideogamearchive.org" target="_blank">http://www.utvideogamearchive.org</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Devin Monnens<br><a href="http://www.deserthat.com">www.deserthat.com</a><br><br>The sleep of Reason produces monsters.<br>
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