[game_preservation] The Videogame Archivist

[Martin Goldberg]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Panagiotis Kouvelis <panozk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Its interesting to see that there are references from 1900-1910 to the term

> "video game" and also that "video game" started first its appearance.

>


When I looked over, it appears they show up more because of google
search anomalies/errors than actual references from that time period
using the term.  For example:

Nation's Business is coming up 1912 but that of course is not the case:
http://books.google.com/books?id=5Iu_l2laCJkC&q=%22video+game%22&dq=%22video+game%22&hl=en&ei=S3grTYX9FMys8AbkmLHDAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ


Marty