[game_preservation] Kotaku: Videogame History Museum Kickstarter short on funds

[Devin Monnens]

http://kotaku.com/5832999/its-not-looking-good-for-the-videogame-history-museum

Following up on this earlier report, the Videogame History Museum project
begun by Digital Press is not meeting its goal of $30k. Is this something
that the Game Preservation SIG should be involved in with trying to promote?
It's not like they've contacted the list or anything about this...

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com> wrote:


> Right now they're just trying to get a space so they can get started, other

> projects would follow. I don't know what their ultimate ambitions are, but I

> do know that these guys are big champions of digital preservation and of

> providing a place to conduct research. They once helped Activision out with

> one of its compilation packs by providing assets and data, and they'd like

> to start doing more of that sort of work. They also want to host events and

> talks like CGE.

>

> Sent from my iPad

>

> On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:22 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> > Collection and display.  They're basically interested in formal

> > presentation of their personal collections (a portion of which they've

> > been showing off at CGE and E3 all these years).

> >

> >

> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>

> wrote:

> >> Digital Press is taking donations for The Video Game History Museum,

> which

> >> first showed an exhibit at E3 this year as well as at the Classic Gaming

> Exp

> >> in Vegas.

> >>

> >> http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/07/digital_press_veterans_kicksta.php

> >>

> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760848975/the-videogame-history-museum

> >> http://www.vghmuseum.org/

> >>

> >> They're looking to raise $50k through Kickstarter, which actually seems

> to

> >> me like a very small number. Do you suppose they're looking more for

> >> collection and display rather than long-term preservation? I recently

> read

> >> an article about how museums are less interested in long-term

> preservation

> >> (i.e. making sure the thing works) than with having objects on display,

> so

> >> whether the data on a floppy disk is readable is kind of irrelevant. The

> >> curators pointed their fingers at libraries and archives as those

> >> responsible for the task of information preservation.

> >> --

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> >>

> >> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

> >>

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