[game_preservation] Ebay auction
Frank Cifaldi
fcifaldi at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 15:34:48 EST 2013
Kevin Gifford had a decent amount, they're all at the Strong if you wanna
fly to Rochester.
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:
> VERY excited to hear about that, Frank! It's a real pain to track down
> some of the old magazines. I've gone through the magazine sharing sites to
> find particular issues, but it's hard work, and the collections are
> incomplete. One thing I was trying to find was old Japanese magazines. Do
> you know of any collectors with Famitsus and other magazines from the 80s
> and early 90s?
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On that subject, I just put a group together to buy this really amazing
>> collection of U.S. console magazines to donate to the Library of Congress'
>> video game archive:
>>
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/360579773880?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
>>
>> As someone who collects print material, I can tell you how
>> near-impossible it would be to replicate this set (after more than 10
>> years, even I don't have some of these issues).
>>
>> All of these are also at the Strong, this set will live at the LoC campus
>> in Culpeper, VA and my private collection will live somewhere on the west
>> coast when I find the right fit. I know people tend to get more excited
>> over the actual games, but as someone who actually studies game history
>> actively, these magazines are FAR more priceless, so I'm super stoked that
>> these are safe and in the right hands.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Alex Handy <alex at themade.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/OVER-30-years-of-VIDEOGAMES-COLLECTION-The-story-of-VideoGames-/121062811693
>>>
>>> So, who's gonna contact this guy when the auction fails?
>>>
>>> Henry? I don't think the MADE has room for all of this anyway.
>>>
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