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

[Henry Lowood]

Henry,

We have a number of disks from the Big Blue Disk collection here at 
Stanford.  In the Cabrinety.  Unfortunately, they are minimally 
cataloged, so I can't tell you what is on them.   What we have are nos. 
10-14, all apparently dated 1987, and another from the second accession 
listed as "1987," which I suspect may include several disks.   
Interestingly, MobyGames only starts their series listing with 26, 1988.

Henry

On 2/27/2011 6:44 AM, Henry Borchers 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

>

> 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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