[game_preservation] Swag archive?

[Frank Cifaldi]

Andy Eddy at Team Xbox was the editor of VideoGames & Computer
Entertainment, he's probably the active games journalist who has been at it
the longest. I know he doesn't have the mag's paper archive though, it's
privately owned by someone else (and I've been trying to get at it for
years).

Steve Harris from EGM has a storage unit full of stuff that I'm hoping to
see someday. He's too busy relaunching the mag right now to respond to
emails though.

I've been meaning to talk to Arnie Katz and Joyce Worley to see if they have
an archive, it's on my to-do list. Bill Kunkel is still around too; I
haven't specifically asked him what kinds of things he's kept, but he never
struck me as the nostalgic packrat type.

Game Informer if I'm not mistaken still has active staff that was at the
magazine since its 1991 launch, which is kind of crazy in this industry. I
don't know if they bothered hanging onto old material, but that's another
"to-do" item for me.

I've often wondered if the RePlay (arcade/coin-op trade mag) office has kept
an archive of material, that would be a goldmine if so. They've been at it
since the beginning of time!

As you can see I think about this kind of thing a lot. I'm really not
worried about preserving commercially-released games so much as I am this
stuff, since the media it's on is so volatile that I'm sure a lot of it is
literally one-of-a-kind at this point.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  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>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

>> www.deserthat.com

>>

>> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>>

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