[game_preservation] Vintage Game Club

[Stuart Feldhamer]

You know, it’s both sad and lame that a game like Grim Fandango is out of
print. Can you imagine Citizen Kane going out of print?

 

I guess this is why we need people actively working on game preservation


 

I have been hoping and dreaming for years that one day the publishers will
wake up and start leveraging their back catalogs more, at least for some of
the really classic games. Alas it doesn’t seem as if the games industry will
be learning this particular lesson from movies or books any time soon.

 

Where is the long tail? I know about all the experiments in digital
distribution but it’s really not quite the same.

 

Stuart

 

From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:25 AM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Vintage Game Club

 

My funds are so limited I'm having to wait to pay a bill my housemate paid
some months ago, less I put it on my credit card. :) That and I've got the
Develop conference next week, where I'm volunteering (unpaid :) ) and will
be paying for my accommodation out of pocket.

I'll get around to it - but they are already well into GF in any case, so
I'd be behind even if I got it now (since I'm away for a week obviously!) -
I'll probably get the next game, and who knows, it might be one I own but
haven't played yet (Fallout I never got far in, and Syndicate Wars, I don't
even know if it runs on XP, heh).

The game is ~£12 second hand from the few places I checked btw. Not in the
cheap range when I picked up Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for around £7 a
week ago (my last game purchase for a while I think).

Andrew

Captain Commando wrote: 

Oh, I thought it was out of print and outrageously expensive used like so
many other classics. $40 new and in stock. But that's still a bit much for
me at the moment (particularly when I need to buy a new power supply to get
my PC running :)

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Stuart Feldhamer
<stuart.feldhamer at gmail.com> wrote:

If your only obstacle is that funds are limited, you should definitely do
it. GF is a classic and how much could it cost? $20?

Stuart

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