[game_preservation] game_preservation Digest, Vol 104, Issue 6

[Scott Sheppard]

Great advice. I honestly hadn't thought of that one yet. :)


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> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:10:50 -0500

> From: Scott Sheppard <wiweeyum at gmail.com>

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> I've been a pretty solid lurker for a couple of years now, and would like

> to become more actively involved in preservation stuff. I haven't really

> had much to contribute to the conversation yet, or I'd comment more often.

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> Do you all have any suggestions as far as how to get to know folks or get

> involved in any projects?

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> -Scott

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> "We build our games like a Japanese garden, where the design is perfect

> when you cannot remove anything else."

> -Jenova Chen

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> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:16:37 -0700

> From: Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx>

> Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Getting involved

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> On 4/16/2014 1:10 PM, Scott Sheppard wrote:

> > I've been a pretty solid lurker for a couple of years now, and would

> > like to become more actively involved in preservation stuff. I haven't

> > really had much to contribute to the conversation yet, or I'd comment

> > more often.

> >

> > Do you all have any suggestions as far as how to get to know folks or

> > get involved in any projects?

>

> Do you own any games? Are they all well represented in the MobyGames

> database yet?

>

> http://www.mobygames.com/

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> For the games you own, if there are bits of cover art missing, scan and

> submit them. If the game has no screenshots, play it (good excuse to do

> so), capture screenshots and submit them. If the game isn't there at

> all, then you have a lot of data to contribute.

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> It might seem like a small contribution but, hey, it's something. :)

> I've been contributing for close to a decade. It sometimes dawns on me

> that, for certain games, if I hadn't written them up for MobyGames, this

> vast collection of human knowledge called the internet would have almost

> no record that the game ever existed at all.

>

> --

>      -Mike Melanson

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> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:28:12 -0400

> From: Benj Edwards <editor at vintagecomputing.com>

> Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Getting involved

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> On 4/17/2014 12:16 AM, Mike Melanson wrote:

> > I've been contributing for close to a decade. It sometimes dawns on me

> > that, for certain games, if I hadn't written them up for MobyGames,

> > this vast collection of human knowledge called the internet would have

> > almost no record that the game ever existed at all.

> >

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> That's a good point, Mike.  We all have a part to play in digital

> preservation, even if it seems small now.  In aggregate, small

> contributions become big ones.  Even the Great Wall of China was built

> one brick at a time -- over centuries and by thousands of people.

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> Benj

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> http://www.benjedwards.com

> http://www.vintagecomputing.com

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-- 
-Scott

"We build our games like a Japanese garden, where the design is perfect
when you cannot remove anything else."
-Jenova Chen
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