[game_preservation] Swag archive?

[Andrew Armstrong]

CES shows eh? I wonder what hidden treasures the journalists have - the 
problem is, developers don't usually keep hold of the stuff they give 
out (or...they're closed down publishers or developers!), but the 
journalists half love and half hate it.

If I ever meet a long-term journalist (do we have many long term game 
journalists still in the industry?) I might ask them about older events.

Andrew

On 15/03/2010 19:17, Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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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