[game_preservation] Ebay auction

[Frank Cifaldi]

Benj, let's take that offline, I'll help you find the right home.


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Benj Edwards
<editor at vintagecomputing.com>wrote:


>  I have a ton of old game magazines (similar to that auction that Frank

> posted) that I am thinking about getting rid of to make some room.  Have

> any ideas who might want them?

>

> Benj

>

>

> On 2/8/2013 3:28 PM, Devin Monnens 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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