[game_preservation] Fwd: [Media] Article

[Andrew Armstrong]

Also, while likely the journalist wants a localised version anyway, I 
have to keep reminding myself that it was a very USA-based crash, and 
was barely heard of (except rather indirectly) in Europe and Japan :) 
Interesting section of history, but it is becoming a myth in of itself.

Andrew

On 04/02/2013 21:11, Martin Goldberg wrote:

> Keep in mind though, the coin-op industry is separate from the 

> consumer industry. Different market, different clientele, different 

> model, different resources, etc. The famous "videogame crash" was a 

> consumer industry crash, there was no single "video game industry" 

> back then. Coin was just bottoming on it's own industry crash when 

> consumer's started and was on it's way back up when consumer was 

> approaching it's worst.

>

>

> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com 

> <mailto:dmonnens at gmail.com>> wrote:

>

>     I've got some knowledge of it since we teach the videogame crash.

>     However, I think it's mostly information that everyone here would

>     probably know (at least if they've looked in detail at Steve

>     Kent's and Tristan Donovan's books).

>

>     Pretty sure there's some guys from the arcade museum on here -

>     they would be perfect for the interview.

>

>

>     On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com

>     <mailto:fcifaldi at gmail.com>> wrote:

>

>         I'll take it if no one else wants to.

>

>

>         On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Henry E Lowood

>         <lowood at stanford.edu <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:

>

>

>             Guys, I am laid out with a nasty bug, so would somebody

>             else in the group like to respond to this information

>             request.  It was sent to IGDA central.

>             Henry

>

>             ----- Forwarded Message -----

>             From: "Kate Edwards (IGDA)" <kate at igda.org

>             <mailto:kate at igda.org>>

>             To: lowood at stanford.edu <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>

>             Cc: "James Baldwin" <ops at igda.org <mailto:ops at igda.org>>

>             Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 2:03:22 PM

>             Subject: Fwd: [Media] Article

>

>             Hi Henry,

>

>             We received this query from the IGDA website; would you or

>             a colleague in the preservation SIG like to respond to

>             this request?

>

>             Thank you,

>

>             Kate

>

>

>             ---------- Forwarded message ----------

>             From: < colinctpaulette at gmail.com

>             <mailto:colinctpaulette at gmail.com> >

>             Date: Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:13 PM

>             Subject: [Media] Article

>             To: kate at igda.org <mailto:kate at igda.org> , ops at igda.org

>             <mailto:ops at igda.org>

>

>

>             Colin Côté-Paulette sent a message using the contact form

>             at http://www.igda.org/contact . Hi, I am a student in

>             journalism and i'm doing a story on the decline of

>             arcades. It is for the Montreal Campus

>             http://montrealcampus.ca/ . It is a francophone journal so

>             i will translate the interview. I think that a member of

>             your organisation can be a useful and relevant speaker in

>             my article. Thanks a lot!

>

>

>             --

>

>

>             Kate Edwards

>

>             Executive Director

>

>

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