[game_preservation] International Video Game Hall of Fame

[Devin Monnens]

...Or would without the player the game not exist?

Oooh... Existentialism!

But seriously, this is something game criticism thinks about - what exactly
is the game? The game is both the object and the session of play. Game
preservation should thus enable both!

Personally, I think remembering designers + players is important because the
players can tell us something about the game. Of course, it's not just the
'best' players who we should remember - what about Until We
Win<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.channels.com%2Fepisodes%2Fshow%2F7370186%2FUntil-We-Win-Chakan&ei=gCpJTIrYDI-ksQORk-lI&usg=AFQjCNGkt4EkMnxTKcVR85_Ogten5ya5TA&sig2=wbHg9J7pSZofZ8WrGuOycA>?
He's never gotten a top score in anything, but has beaten most of the
hardest games ever made (at least one of which, Pumpkinhead's Revenge, has
probably NEVER been beaten before).

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:


> On 7/22/2010 8:41 AM, Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

>

>> After all, basically what he did is establish high score records for video

>> games and promote his records as the official ones.

>>

> ...

>

>  You say the list is "a

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

>> competitors)", when in fact it is very weighted to the competitors.

>>

>

> I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.  I can't believe *any*

> competitor is part of some sort of "gaming hall of fame" list of inductees.

>  It should be 100% game designers/implementers/programmers because without

> them *the players wouldn't exist*.

> --

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