[game_preservation] FW: Spring Cleaning the SIG+2009 ideas (Please respond!)

[Andrew Armstrong]

Also, note that 2008 was a terrible year for films, canonically. The 
"Best Oscar" will possibly look a bit bad, where as other years, every 
nomination could have won it.

The criteria, as far as I'm aware, was just a private discussion. Since, 
after checking the archives, this mailing list was about dead, I wasn't 
surprised to hear it wasn't more formally done or publicly done, since 
it was only meant as a starting point for "these games are important, do 
something!" kinda thing. Henry could explain more I guess, hopefully 
I've not been wrong in my thoughts on it so far.

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Well, Ocarina of Time came out in '98. If that's not canonical, I 

> don't know what would be.

>

> I actually don't think we need 10 canonical games to be made each 

> year. I think there are some years with film and literature where 

> there really isn't that much produced that's actually worth looking at 

> (and some where it is a 'good year' or 'renaissance' and there are 

> more than 10). Further, if you took 10 things a year, your canon would 

> begin to get very unwieldy (1000 films is already beyond the level 

> where an ordinary person could know each one intimately, and perhaps 

> even see each one in a lifetime. Of course, we'd have to do this for 

> 100 years to get a thousand games, but by then I HOPE we'll have more 

> interesting games. I also think that before we get to that point, 

> there will probably be some changes to the system - for instance, how 

> can we go about preserving 10 other games when we can't preserve any 

> of the historical material regarding these others? Maybe we really do 

> need more than ten games to start with...

>

> More importantly though, I'd like to know what the criteria were for 

> selecting a game for the DGC. They're oddly not listed on the wiki, 

> and none of the news articles say anything about it.

>

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