[game_preservation] Another massive game collection sold at auction

[Melanie Swalwell]

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From: Jason Scott

Date: Thu, 19/06/2014 3:24 AM

To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG;

Subject:Re: [game_preservation] Another massive game collection sold at auction



Way to go with that transition from first to second game history conference, whoever came up with that approach.

The first was/is at: http://www.history-of-games.com/
And the second is listed at.... http://www.sahj.ca/

There's no link from the "first" conferece website that there's a second one happening. So this is basically the first I've heard of this second event, and no mail went out to attendees of the first (as far as I know) that this was happening. So while I'm sad I already have commitments for the 27th-28th that will keep me in New York City, I am not sad that I "missed the chance".

Hopefully the events at the 2nd will be properly recorded and the resulting papers released, maybe even video.

Game history conferences are game history too!

As for the game collection, it's good that it was sold intact. We'll see who got it, and whether it'll be parted out or kept intact in the future, I'm sure.


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com<mailto:dmonnens at gmail.com>> wrote:
Another massive game collection was sold at auction for $750,000. I wonder if this is going in a private collection or what. Did anyone hear about this?

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/06/17/worlds-largest-game-collection-draws-over-750k-at-auction/

BTW, since a lot of the group is in Australia for the preservation conference, I hope there will be a summary posted sometime so we can hear about what happened.

I am in Montreal next week for the game history conference; can post here a summary of that.

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Devin Monnens
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