[game_preservation] International Video Game Hall of Fame

[Billy Cain]

Anyone written about the University of Texas Video Game Archive? They have
some amazing pieces...
bjc

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> Anyone else heard of it? I don't actually recall them starting, and

> presumably they're not on here!

>

> They recently announced a Video Game Hall of Fame; with 2010 inductees:

> http://www.ivghof.com/the-big-bang/inductees (via /.

> http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/07/21/059236 )

>

> Perhaps not surprisingly these people all appear to be still alive. I

> wonder if that is a condition of entry. Tons of champions too...is it really

> valid to add those kinds  of people to a Hall of Fame over the creators of

> the games that they in fact are champions of? (I guess it might be held they

> are the "sport players" of the game world, rather then passive watchers as

> in film or TV, so fit there). Lots of Xbox creators too...hmmm...site

> branded with Master Chief...I do wonder who compiled the list, sounds

> very...fanboy-ish.

>

> In any case, we need a bit more activity on this list :) Anyone else got

> interesting news to post? I want to post about the meeting several

> organisations had held by the National Videogame Archive in the UK - we

> discussed and raised a lot of "not commonly discussed" items, and might well

> lead somewhere which is nice. I'll see if I can get permission to post the

> minutes - unless someone from the archive is on the list and gives

> permission.

>

> Given that those discussions were strictly UK only, of course, we could

> well use input just generally on the kind of topics that were raised in our

> whitepaper and other issues which are barriers or just simply difficulties

> with preservation.

>

> Andrew

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