[game_preservation] Videogame Archive exhibit on display

[Devin Monnens]

Zach,

This is pretty cool! Would it be too late to add information on Punchatz?

-Devin

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Vowell, Zach <zvowell at austin.utexas.edu>wrote:


>

> Last week we installed an exhibit featuring materials from the UT Videogame

> Archive out at the Austin airport.  It will be up until January 20, 2010,

> so

> if you'll be travelling through or stuck in the Austin airport, be sure to

> check it out.  The exhibit cases and posters are spread out throughout the

> main concourse.

>

> Here's a link from our website that gives a bit more information:

>

> http://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/videogamearchive/item_102809.html

>

> When putting the exhibit together, my primary aim was to broaden awareness

> about game preservation and explain the need for videogame archives in

> general, so hopefully some of that will rub off on at least a few

> passersby.

>

> And I thought I'd add that one of the exhibit cases features the DOOM box

> cover, and might serve as a inadequate but visible memorial for the late

> Don

> Ivan Punchatz.  There isn't any text identifying Punchatz, but we do

> identify the game as a classic (of course, everyone here knows that, but

> your average air-traveller may not).

>

>

> --

> Zach Vowell

> Archivist, UT Videogame Archive

> The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

> University of Texas at Austin

> 512.495.4405

> http://www.utvideogamearchive.org

>

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