[game_preservation] International Video Game Hall of Fame

[Devin Monnens]

Well the list is busy now! I can't even finish typing my message before a
new one appears!! :)

Maybe VGHoF is more an American phenomenon (does Walter Day induct any game
playing champions from Japan or Korea?).

Anyway, I've been a bit busy lately but am taking initial steps to start
work on documenting history of game development in Colorado. I said I'd
start it around mid-July and by damn, it's mid-July so time to start!

On top of this, I was working with Andrew on tracking down some sketches and
journal entries that may or may not exist by Babbage on his tic-tac-toe
machine. One archive has been very helpful, but we need more information
from a Babbage scholar before I send Andrew out (the archive is in the UK
and while I'd love to visit, I have no budget and am a bit tired of travel).
So, if anyone knows a scholar...

I am also still working on my history of digital games from before 1973, but
this has kind of stalled up thanks to my June stint at the Humanities Gaming
Institute. So I have to work on some games and game proposals from there!!
(Incidentally, I also need to follow up and write something about the Oregon
Trail! I had a wonderful interview with the designer).

By the way - I STILL am not part of the classic computer mailing list, so I
can't ask anyone about whether the code to ICBM looks correct! Anyway you
can get them to just add my e-mail directly?

Um yes...and I still have to post the results to the survey, which I said
were going to be out in March. And I think we need a database for the
preservation institutions list.

Well, I guess that's that!

Oh, my website, the Metroid Database (www.metroid-database.com) is back on
page 1 of google - where it belongs! Took about two years thanks to those
fools at Classicgaming (and some problems with site design) but we're back!
I translated the two interviews with the Metroid Other M development team as
well, so you can view the youtube videos with subtitles if you are so
inclined.

-Devin

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:18 AM, 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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Devin Monnens
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