[game_preservation] Mobygames and KLOV

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hey Frank,

Good starting locations for information, the main thing is we don't have 
anyone spare to do the research, although it is something important we 
should have an ear on. If anyone has the time to follow up Frank's 
advice for the SIG and fill out information on collectors, collector 
communities, etc. tell us and then go for it :)

If in a month or more I have time I'll try chasing it up myself.

Andrew

Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> Hi all. I'm sorry if this is an inopportune time to barge in here, but 

> I've been too busy with work to monitor this conversation closely.

>

> You guys are talking about meeting and keeping in contact with game 

> collectors, right? I talked about this with Henry during a brief 

> meeting at Stanford, I know a good deal of very serious game 

> collectors, we're talking people with complete libraries for most 

> major consoles. No computer collectors have ever come close to 

> Cabrinety, but as far as dedicated game consoles, give me a game and I 

> can probably name someone who owns it off the top of my head.

>

> Your best bet for a starting point contact is a fellow by the name of 

> Joe Santulli. Joe is the co-founder of Digital Press 

> (http://digitpress.com), which has undergone a few faces since its 

> founding in the early 90s, including a "zine," a video game 

> collector's guide, the website (including a gigantic database that is 

> more accurate and complete but less rich than Moby's), and now a shop 

> in New Jersey. Joe has one of the most impressive collections in the 

> world, and is a totally affable guy who is good friends with just 

> about all of the other major collectors.

>

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Devin Monnens <evilcowclone at gmail.com 

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

>

>     I was reading Judd and Ken's article on Beyond the Steady State,

>     which has a discussion about Mobygames and KLOV and how the

>     contents of the archive are essentially metadata rather than games

>     themselves.

>

>     http://flowtv.org/?p=50

>

>     One thing I think that's worth asking is whether or not Mobygames

>     and KLOV (and Arcade-History, for that matter!) have their own

>     physical collections of games. Some of the people involved must be

>     game collectors and have personal collections, but I wonder if the

>     database itself has a physical archive somewhere...

>

>     -Devin

>

>     -- 

>     The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>

>     "Until next time..."

>     Captain Commando

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