[game_preservation] International Video Game Hall of Fame

[Andrew Armstrong]

No, I know of them - most of them at any rate (and know of the photo) - 
just that competitors matched with a more limited set of designers for 
any kind of list seems disturbingly unbalanced, but fair enough, theme 
each year I guess! We'll see next year.

I'll not get into a discussion here on the importance of competitors in 
videogame history either; the words "it depends" spring to mind, and 
intent has a lot to do with it.

I used the term fanboy basically because there's the Xbox development 
group there for some reason (because they'd come? who knows?) and not 
people who designed much more relevant, interesting and more 
historically important consoles. I suggested that whoever helped compile 
the list simply loves that console (thus fanboy), oddly for this hall of 
fame which seems to be much more in favour of older related things. This 
wasn't anything to do with the choice of game competitors in the list 
though, and I am sure Walter Day didn't just do it all himself!

Andrew

On 21/07/2010 14:18, Martin Goldberg 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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