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

[John Andersen]

Are they planning on attending PAX Central next weekend?  Perhaps this is wishful thinking on my part, but if they had a table set up to do a "Pocket Change Campaign", and collect whatever change they could from attendees, then that would be promising.  Nearly 70,000 attended PAX East in Boston.  If Gabe or Tycho could plug the Videogame History Museum, then people could file out of the hall and give what pocket change they had.  Once again, wishful thinking on my part, but just an idea for this PAX or the next PAX East if Kickstarter doesn't work out.
 
- John Andersen  
 



Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:56:58 -0600
From: dmonnens at gmail.com
To: game_preservation at igda.org
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Kotaku: Videogame History Museum Kickstarter short on funds

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.

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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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