[game_preservation] Rock, Paper, Shotgun: The RPSchive

[Andrew Armstrong]

Haha, give the poor journalist a chance :)

I think there is a tiny bit of British wit was involved in his post to 
be honest ;) especially on the fact he was a journalist who reviewed the 
games in the past and then traded them in, so now has to rebuild a 
collection to do the retro section, haha. Ironic, no?

For shame perhaps, but I did say "for fun" - if this was any actual kind 
of preservation or historical work beyond a few retrospective articles, 
I'd take it a bit more seriously :)

Andrew

Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

> <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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> [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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