[game_preservation] A Triumph Of Game Preservation

[Andrew Armstrong]

Oh, absolutely. I applaud it, just I've seen several sites I used to 
visit for games now shut down or "lose files", which is never fun.

One thing is that since EA, or someone at Mythic allowed it, they'd 
probably be okay with doing it again sometime in the future or 
something. Who knows? Might be a nice precedent to say "hey, these guys 
were able to do some real good, why can't you?" :)

Andrew

Vowell, Zachary W wrote:

>

> I think you're right to be wary, Andrew, but fortunately I think the 

> WCNews/Origin Museum are a great example of Henry's pt-boats (if 

> you'll recall his analogy of academic battleships and 

> collector/hobbyist pt-boats).  They're very serious about preserving 

> these records for history, and to that end have put a lot of time into 

> organizing the materials that they receive, and in talking with them 

> it's even possible that they will provide duplicate files to one or 

> more archives.

>

> They have to make sure it's alright with EA before doing so, but they 

> understand the instability of digital records, and so I think this 

> will indeed turn out to be a triumph in the long run.

>

> But man, I'm crossing my fingers about Mythic keeping the physical 

> objects/hard copies too.  That would be a shame if they threw anything 

> away.

>

>

> -- 

> Zach Vowell

> Archivist, UT Videogame Archive

> Center for American History

> 512.495.4405

> http://www.utvideogamearchive.org

>

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