[game_preservation] Another massive game collection sold at auction

[Jason Scott]

Understood, Henry. Hope you're having fun in Australia!


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Henry E Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:

>  Jason,
> Different conference, different organizers.
> Brief, from Melbourne.
> Henry
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>  ------------------------------
> From: Jason Scott <jason at textfiles.com>
> Sent: ‎6/‎19/‎2014 3:24 AM
>
> To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG <game_preservation at igda.org>
> 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>
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Devin Monnens
>> www.deserthat.com
>>
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