[game_preservation] A Triumph Of Game Preservation

[Andrew Armstrong]

Certainly interesting but...fans? Hmm?

While there are some brilliant fansites, I know as well as anyone else 
that many just go offline at random times or have funding 
problems/update problems :( - It'd be much more interesting if a museum 
or archive got hold of the information, and was able to make use of it 
or store it properly. After all, the Wing Commander range of games is no 
small amount of information.

Or maybe at some point the fans can send copies of that stuff to 
somewhere more permanent. Still much better then nothing! Applauding 
from the sidelines here, at least it isn't all just stored at EA Mythic. 
I just hope Mythic don't just bin it all now, with the excuse being 
someone else has it, hehe.

Andrew

Mike Melanson wrote:

> This will bring a tear to the eye of anyone interested in game 

> preservation:

>

> http://www.wcnews.com/articles/mythicarchiving/index.shtml

>

> Executive summary: The highups at the game company that owns all the 

> Wing Commander IP gave permission for a group of WC fanatics and to 

> come on-site for an entire week and thoroughly catalog everything 

> relating to the series.

>