[game_preservation] Frank Cifaldi's preservation article on 1Up

[Andrew Armstrong]

"As much as I wish this weren't true, widely distributing an unreleased 
game in pirated form over the Internet is the only method of 
preservation that I trust, at least for now. There is no equivalent of, 
say, a UCLA Film & Television Archive or an ASIFA-Hollywood for 
videogames. Certainly we have the beginnings of equivalent institutions 
-- the archives at Stanford and UT Austin for example are off to 
tremendous starts -- but the resources and industry recognition just 
aren't there yet, at least to my satisfaction."

A shame this is basically true still - there just isn't the resources 
around, and the standards and concentrated effort just sadly isn't 
present, at least as far as I know! (if it is present but hidden, that's 
just as bad!)

Interesting reasons laid down to justify it, although I don't think 
anyone here would need convincing. :)

Andrew

On 09/01/2010 16:45, Devin Monnens wrote:

> Nobody's reported on this here, but there's an article on backing up 

> beta and unreleased games.

>

> http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3177520

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