[game_preservation] International Video Game Hall of Fame

[Billy Cain]

Well said.

On 7/21/10, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, that's Walter Day.  He founded that around his leaving Twin

> Galaxies, with the idea of creating a hall of fame/museum in his

> hometown (coincidentally where Twin Galaxies and competitive gaming

> were also founded).  He's also been trying to push Ottumwa as the

> "Video Game Capital" becuase of this.  The list looks like it has a

> pretty balanced list of older to modern and from industry and player

> (the competitors).  And it's Walter Day, hence the inclusion of many

> of these longstanding legendary competitors, many of whom are icons

> themselves and brought as much fame to the games as the games

> themselves.  The theme of this years ceremony is "Celebrates the

> History of Competitive Gaming", which is explained here:

>

> http://www.ivghof.com/the-big-bang/2010-induction-process

>

> Part of the ceremonies include recreating the legendary Life magazine

> photo from its 1982 spread on video games, which the original is

> covered here for those not familiar:

>

> http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/contests/Nov1982/

>

> Many of those people are the competitors being inducted.

>

> Walter is hardly a "fanboy", and I'm a little shocked to see that used

> in the same sentence Andrew.  If you're not familiar with him or the

> importance of a lot of these people (who were just as much a part of

> the history and lore of video games), that's not exactly their fault.

>

>

> Marty

>

> 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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