[game_preservation] Our Membership

[Andrew Armstrong]

Yep, you are one of those few, certainly to cover multiple groups. Any 
thoughts on what more people like you (DB contributors, collectors, 
emulators :) ) would get out of the SIG, or why they might join? If 
there is any point in joining that is...

I personally don't have a clue, since I basically currently only fall 
into the historians, and partially into the archivists categories, and 
most of my work on projects is to improve information about these areas :)

Andrew

Mike Melanson wrote:

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>> There are, as far as I'm aware, few people from these groups:

>> - Game collectors, enthusiasts

>> - Game emulator creators

>> - Game historians

>> - Game history press

>> - Librarians, other general archivists

>

> I think I fall into the first 3 categories you listed. I'm sort of an 

> eccentric game collector as I love to focus on obscure stuff that no 

> one else could possibly care about. I'm a game historian as evidenced 

> by my contributions to MobyGames.com. And I'm intensely interested in 

> emulation as well, primarily from a technical perspective. In fact, I 

> used to maintain an NES emulator (tuxnes.sf.net).

>

> Just so you know where I'm coming from.

>