[game_preservation] Digital Game Museum?

[Devin Monnens]

Good point. I haven't heard of these guys. As for the logo, considering how
few people seem to know about our SIG, I wouldn't be surprised if this was
independently created, so I don't think they stole it. However, I can see
problems with this causing confusion (is Digital Game Museum part of the
IGDA Game Preservation SIG? Is the SIG part of DGM?) though I don't think
it's a dreadful issue. Of course, our logo doesn't have a trademark on it,
so it would be more out of courtesy if we asked them to change it.

Actually, I'm also wondering why this new group got a writeup on Maximum PC
rather than any of the bigger archives in Silicon Valley. I mean, great that
a new archive can get coverage, but aren't there a half-dozen more in that
area?

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


> All,

>

> I just read a short piece by Tom Halfhill in Maximum PC about a new

> "Digital Game Museum" in Silicon Valley.  At first, I assumed that he meant

> the MADE, but he also said he was on the Board, and I didn't remember

> anything about him in connection with the MADE.   So I looked it up the

> old-fashioned way: a Google search.

>

> Well, here it is:

> http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/

>

> It seems to be very, very new -- maybe only a couple of weeks.  I don't

> find any dates earlier than April 29th on the site, though the pages are

> copyright 2010. The website is very thin on content, and the small

> collection is tiny -- probably just a couple of small, random gifts.  I

> briefly considered that this might even be a joke of some sort.

>

> While considering that possibility something caught my eye that bothered

> me: Check out the logo.  Look familiar?

>

> Does anybody know anything about this operation?  What do you think about

> the logo?  Is it something we (I guess that means me) should ask them about?

>

> Henry

>

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