[game_preservation] The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (?)

[Alex Handy]

Thanks Martin! This is just the help we need.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:


> I signed up and just did two minor corrections.  Atari should be Atari

> SA, which is based in Los Angeles now and was not founded in 1972.

> Likewise there's Atari Interactive, which is in New York and owns all

> the original Atari's consumer IP and is basically in charge of

> anything in relation to that IP (including any archival assets).

>

> The issue with documenting archiving for this brand though is that

> Atari SA is only a publisher.  You'd have to contact something like

> Cryptic or it's other satellite developers to see if anything is being

> archived.  As far as the original Atari's, those are archived by Curt

> Vendel (consumer) and Scott Evans (coin).

>

>

> Marty

>

> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>

> wrote:

> > Sorry Frank, it didn't connect, re-reading my old emails I did find his

> > introduction! I'm so dumb today.

> >

> > Trust me to not even bother to search for it at the time, the site just

> > threw me since I've not seen it before...I apologise! Sorry all.

> >

> > Thanks for the explanations Alex/Henry, especially on the IGDA history

> > thing; didn't hear about it before (last I heard was on the old.igda.org

> > being there from years ago). Good to hear your working hard on it and so

> > forth, Kickstarter etc. - I'll throw some money in the pot.

> >

> > Andrew

> >

> > On 01/04/2011 16:26, Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> >

> > We've discussed this before. Also Alex Handy is on this list and

> introduced

> > himself at one point.

> >

> > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>

> > wrote:

> >>

> >> Oh, now I actually read the staff page I see Henry (and some others on

> >> this list) are there. Any chance of a rundown of this?

> >>

> >> Andrew

> >>

> >> On 01/04/2011 10:15, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> >>>

> >>> I guess they do know of the organisation, I wonder about the SIG

> though:

> >>> http://blog.themade.org/?p=37

> >>>

> >>> Not sure what that is referring to though; I didn't realise the IGDA

> was

> >>> asking for this...?

> >>>

> >>> Andrew

> >>>

> >>> On 01/04/2011 10:10, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> >>>>

> >>>> Hey, anyone heard about this place before just a  few seconds ago? :)

> >>>>

> >>>> http://themade.org/

> >>>>

> >>>> I found it via. Slashdot (probably popped up elsewhere but my RSS

> reader

> >>>> is a mess):

> >>>>

> >>>>

> >>>>

> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/31/2252247/San-Francisco-Opening-Computer-amp-Video-Game-Museum

> >>>>

> >>>> Do you think they even know about this SIG or that there are related

> >>>> organisations nearby? Anyone up for contacting them or if they know

> them

> >>>> personally inviting them here? Even if they don't get off the ground

> it's

> >>>> odd there are some historians who don't know about us, we're just not

> well

> >>>> known enough I guess :)

> >>>>

> >>>> Andrew

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Alex Handy
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