[game_preservation] National Game Registry Blog

[Andrew Armstrong]

Fascinating discussion both! We're a bit out on the accurate resources 
front. I am still slowly plodding away planning a bibliographic (and 
other resource) database, where certainly comments on accuracy are going 
to be a good thing to focus on for some of the major books and texts on 
the subject.

I am also surprised that I never found this project run by the LoC. I 
recall investigating what they were doing but never contacted them, I 
might do so over this once I start to list all archives, museums, 
displays, projects and resources next year.

Anyone can give me a shout here or off list if you want to remind me or 
bring up anything (or want to participate as an expert), I can always 
note it down in private before I get this resource site sorted, or at 
least keep you in mind for expert advice - one of the problems with 
inaccurate information and how it propagates is even good historians can 
only do so much investigation. It might well be worth doing 
mini-articles on specific historical facts - and how they do or don't 
match up with real ones, especially if we can get places like Wikipedia 
and Mobygames updated to reflect the much more accurate information, and 
warn people about specific inaccurate points in books.

I wonder how other fields work with the problem of historical fact. As 
noted, the 3 reasons why it gets muddled can happen to any area. Must be 
one of those impossible-to-solve problems since we don't have any way of 
recording literally everything, and no one's memory is that perfect!

Andrew