[game_preservation] The world's most expensive videogames

[Henry Lowood]

Well, not to be snarky, but Spacewar! is more expensive than any of 
them.  I mean, if you want a working copy.  And yes there is a copy 
that works -- Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

(Somewhat tongue-in-cheek.)

The article was interesting, in that some of these games are in the 
price range of rare books. Not truly high-end rare books, but many, 
say, history of science books with 18th-century imprints.  These 
books are less rare than the carts seem to be, so the pricing seems 
for the most part to be driven by rarity, rather than a perception of 
some other kind of value (artistic, scholarly, etc.)

Henry

At 07:09 PM 4/5/2008, Captain Commando wrote:

>Here is an article I discovered while doing unrelated research. It 

>is the ten most expensive videogames in the world. Well, I should 

>say the ten that people will let you know about as there are plenty 

>more betas and one-of-a-kinds that nobody outside the most serious 

>of the serious collectors has heard about. Interesting article nonetheless!

>

><http://www.gamesniped.com/2007/11/08/worlds-most-expensive-video-games/>http://www.gamesniped.com/2007/11/08/worlds-most-expensive-video-games/

>

>-DM

>

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>"Until next time..."

>Captain Commando

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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
  Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004
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