[game_preservation] International Video Game Hall of Fame

[Andrew Armstrong]

  We've discussed King of Kong a bit more here. We still need to get 
some analysis on what is the good and bad documentaries - perhaps even 
"biopics", since they wander from the truth sometimes to make a good 
story/good entertainment, which is something we are hopefully distinct 
from on this list if we're investigating history!

As for Hall of Fames, they're pretty promotional basically in my view. 
They might give some random starting route to finding the popular and 
possibly influential people in that area, although no doubt historians 
and most people would find the designers and creators more important 
then the players, but they're worth noting in some capacity somewhere, 
who why not there? (In music, is it the skilled but non-composing 
professional musician that gets added to the hall of fame, the composer 
of that music, or both? :) - I know, they're performance works but 
still, there are distinctions there even between creator and user).

Andrew

On 23/07/2010 07:37, Martin Goldberg wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Rowan Kaiser<rowankaiser at gmail.com>  wrote:

>> (other than the awesome King

>> of Kong doc),

> Ouch, that thing was such a hatchet job.  Its unfortunate a lot of

> people got their first exposure to Walter, Billy, etc. through that.

> Some big playing with timelines in the footage, outright lies (i.e.

> when the one interviewer is lambasting Billy as never really coming

> out in public to compete anymore when Billy set the (then) world

> public record of DK at our show in 2004 in front of our attendees),

> etc.

>

>

> Marty

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