[game_preservation] On Disk Monthy (Big Blue Disk) issue with the game Bubba Goes West

[Frank Cifaldi]

Did you try contacting Flat Rock Software, the developer? It's still in
business, sort of.

http://www.flatrocksoft.com/

The WhoIs contact for the domain is Richard Mandel,
richard at tech-transfer.com

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Henry Borchers <henryborchers at yahoo.com>wrote:


> Hello,

>

>

>

> I’m a Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image student at the

> University of Amsterdam and I’ve chosen to write my master’s thesis on video

> game preservation. I am dedicating a section of my thesis on the loss of

> video games and comparing it to the loss of early cinema. As an small case

> study, I’m trying to locate a game from my childhood. I wanted to pick

> something that wasn’t a console game. Instead I wanted to focus on disk

> magazines since it’s relatively forgotten or unknown to my generation. I

> know I’m not picking an easy target because it is something that took me 10

> years of personal research in my free time to even remember the title. There

> are only about 5 hits on Google that even match the name of the specific

> game. Nevertheless, I figured it’d be a good example for my thesis.

>

>

>

> It is for this reason, I’m asking the community for your help. I am

> wondering if anybody knows of any archive that has any information about

> which On Disk Monthly (aka The big blue disk) issue the game “Bubba Goes

> West” was featured on. Even better, if any knows if an archive has this in

> their collection. Any information would be great.

>

>

>

> Sincerely,

>

> Henry Borchers

>

> Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image Master’s Student

>

> University of Amsterdam

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>

>

> PS. I really wanted to go to GDC for the talk on bit rot but holy moly,

> that’s way out of my budget as a student.

>

>

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