[game_preservation] Swag archive?

[Frank Cifaldi]

I've been trying to collect older game-related flyers and press kits, but
they're exceedingly rare. It's unfortunate because in some cases, literally
all of the information we have about an unreleased game comes from these.

I'm still hoping to find a packrat that went to all of the CES shows in
their video game prime and held on to everything, but that hasn't happened
yet!

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  Never seen a site/archive that advertises they take things like this, and

> I would  be pretty sure space is limited to usually more manual-inclined

> material or major advertising (this usually found in magazines) rather then

> flyers...hmm, I do wonder.

>

> I'd not be surprised if it is both useful and necessary to preserve (it is

> pretty useful to reflect on in some cases), but for starters, I bet a lot is

> just thrown out as you said! Perhaps if someone does know somewhere, we can

> all chip in sending stuff to them, even if it is just a collector or person

> who has a lot of spare room, I know I've got a few bags of old GDC stuff,

> and some UK game event stuff too (Develop conference and other things) which

> I'm not really hanging onto for any reason other then I've not quite thrown

> it out yet.

>

> Andrew

>

>

> On 15/03/2010 16:51, Devin Monnens wrote:

>

> I was curious if any of the archives out there have a collection of swag

> from conferences like GDC and E3. I was about to recycle half the flyers

> they handed out, but then realized 'I don't know if anyone working at an

> archive is saving these.' I personally think it's just junk, but it might be

> interesting to see what all is being handed out at booths as promo. I don't

> really have the means/space for this stuff (nor a comprehensive collection)

> so I think it's just going in the recycle.

>

> --

> Devin Monnens

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