[game_preservation] National Game Registry Blog

[Devin Monnens]

You know, I know this project exists. But I can't find it on the web. You
would think the LOC would be googleable?

I did find another survey paper published 2009. They are all researchers
from the UK:

http://lcc.gatech.edu/~cpearce3/DiGRA09/Thursday%203%20September/State%20of%20Play%20a.pdf

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:


> Interesting.  Without getting in to their definition of "video game",

> took a look over some of the info and it's erroneous, which I'm

> surprised at for the Library of Congress.  Unless the errors were done

> by the blogger?  For example, the key personnel in both Computer

> Space, Pong and Breakout.

>

> Computer Space was done by Ted Dabney *and* Nolan Bushnell.  Ted did

> all the major circuitry design (spot generator, etc.), Nolan worked on

> the finished product after selling it to Nutting.

>

> Pong - Ralph didn't create the tennis game it was taken from, that was

> one of the two people on his game system project, Bill Rusch.

> Likewise, Al Alcorn was not the "programmer".  The game has no CPU, it

> was designed in pure TTL logic.  Al would be the "engineer".

>

> Breakout - The concept was by Nolan and Steve Bristow.  Likewise,

> Wozniak only did an early version of Breakout.  Once again, this is a

> pure logic TTL based game, no coding.  The actual version of Breakout

> released was engineered at Atari's Cyan labs by Gary Waters.

>

>

> Marty

>

>

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Found this while, as usual, digging for something else. It's a blog

> listing

> > all the games that had as of February been inducted into the LOC National

> > Game Registry. Includes a description of each.

> >

> http://thenoisingmachine.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/national-game-registry/

> >

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