[game_preservation] Soviet Game Museum

[Andrew Armstrong]

Anything would be good. The area, compared to Japan, is hardly listed in 
the history books except for Tetris, despite having a varying amount of 
industry presence, and other things happening there.

We happily would accept articles for the SIG, if anyone is happy to 
write them :)

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Ok,

>

> I e-mailed a couple people who might be able to get me in contact with 

> a Russian-speaker locally. I also forwarded this to the Women's SIG 

> list to see if anyone there spoke Russian. I think it would be a great 

> idea if we got these guys on our international network of game 

> preservationists. We know practically nothing about Russian games 

> aside from Tetris and seeing how I don't have an e-mail connection 

> with Alexey Pajitnov... :) They might be able to produce a document 

> that discusses the history of digital games and the presence of 

> digital media (especially games) preservation within the Soviet Union 

> that we could then translate and add to our resources. Or maybe I'm 

> thinking too big :P

>

> -Devin

>

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com 

> <mailto:dmonnens at gmail.com>> wrote:

>

>     He only speaks in Russian? Well hmm... Now there ARE a few

>     Russian-speaking people at work, but I don't trust any of them. So

>     there's nobody I know well enough to ask about translation and

>     dialogue. (Though my Japanese instructor apparently knows a few

>     words in Russian :) I can see if anyone in the family knows

>     someone who speaks Russian. This museum is fantastic.

>

>     Do they have Facebook or LinkedIn? Do they have a website?

>

>     -Devin

>

>

>     On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Andrew Armstrong

>     <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>         Ahh, I  won't have much luck contacting him then. Hmm, a

>         little annoying. If you have a chance to get any details in

>         the future, or go visit at all, post about it :)

>

>         Andrew

>

>

>         Andreas Lange wrote:

>

>             Dear Andrew,

>             thanks for the hint. The Russian Video Game tradition is

>             indeed very interesting and therfore I send him/ her an

>             email, too. It was answered only in Russian, which my

>             (east german) colleague could translate. It was only a

>             short note, that I should visit the museum, when I am in

>             Moscow (what is actually not planned) and that the

>             exhibition of some of their exhibits in Germany, which was

>             mentioned in the Edge artcle, can't be realised.

>             Andreas

>

>

>

>             Andrew Armstrong schrieb:

>

>                 Anyone here know anything more about this near little

>                 museum?

>                 http://www.edge-online.com/features/inside-the-soviet-arcade-games-museum

>

>

>                 I meant to post this when I saw it linked from GSW,

>                 but for some reason didn't :/

>

>                 I'll try and get in contact with the owner at some

>                 point and invite them here if possible, depending on

>                 if anyone there can speak English, since I can't write

>                 Russian. :)

>

>                 Andrew

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