[game_preservation] Fwd: [Media] Article

[Devin Monnens]

Yup! Largely US, although it had to have had some impact on console games
in Europe, Canada, and Japan. However, I don't think Atari's home console
impact was that big in Japan anyway. And then of course the arcade market
was different. Atari coin-op was still profitable when the company was
split up and sold.

I think a large part of this comes from the fact that the only major book
on game history we've had for about 10 years was Steve Kent's Ultimate
History of Videogames, which just covered US console and arcade (with some
Japan). Replay is great because it covers the whole world, or at least most
of the major markets.


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  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> 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> 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>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>

>>>> To: lowood at stanford.edu

>>>> Cc: "James Baldwin" <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 >

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

>>>> Subject: [Media] Article

>>>> To: kate at igda.org , 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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