[game_preservation] Rock, Paper, Shotgun: The RPSchive

[Stuart Feldhamer]

<rant>
This is the first I've heard of RPS, but that photo on the top of the page
of their "collection", with basically everything there a rerelease, doesn't
exactly inspire me with confidence. Give some love to the packaging! Isn't
that part of the preservation? Or do we just care about the bits on the CD
(and only CDs, because whoever runs that site doesn't have access to a
floppy drive).
 
I was also a bit annoyed by this line: "Oddly, there isn't currently much
value attached to old PC games - I was dismayed to discover that I'd be
lucky to get a tenner for my treasured, still-shrinkwrapped copy of Dungeon
Keeper." Yeah, well, that's because I used to see shrinkwrapped copies of
Dungeon Keeper priced at $1.99 just begging to be taken off the shelves of
Electronics Boutique back in the day. There are quite a lot of old PC games
that have considerably more "value", in the monetary sense, than Dungeon
Keeper. Not to mention that it's a stretch to even call Dungeon Keeper "old"
compared to some of the other stuff that's out there.
</rant>
 
Stuart

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From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:51 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: [game_preservation] Rock, Paper, Shotgun: The RPSchive


A bit of "fun" :)

You guys might want to shoot a suggestion for a good 1993 PC game that RPS
can retrospective once they acquire it - I suggested Sim City 2000 (I hardly
played the original - yes, that was more original, but this defined sandbox
for me, and many others :) ).

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1388

I've been updating the IGDA preservation blog (does anyone even read it? ;)
) with the other retrospectives - check this category for them on RPS
(although they really should separate them better from the other stuff):

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?tag=retro

Neat stuff - sure, PC only, and usually short, but some of their stuff is
better written then most "history" articles on mainstream sites. Notably
annoying is a lot of better history articles are Magazine-bound and so
unobtainable online :( (definately something to look into if/when there is a
capacity to record or obtain scans of such material).

Andrew

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