[game_preservation] List of libraries/archives that take donations?

Andrew Perti andrew.perti at thesimm.org
Mon Mar 31 15:54:31 EDT 2014


Well over 300 graduate schools in the US have video game related
programs. Not many have extensive libraries though.

I'm sure there are others, but organizations which might want stuff off
the top of my head...

United States

* Library of Congress
* The MADE
* SIMM
* Videogame History Museum
* Strong National Museum of Play
* Stanford
* Living Computer Museum
* University of Texas at Austin
* New York University
* University of Michigan
* University of Maryland
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne
* University of Washington

Worldwide

* National Videogame Archive (England)
* Computerspiele Museum (Germany)
* VIGAMUS (Italy)
* MO5 (France)
* Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
* National Game Museum (Korea)

Andrew Perti
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On 3/31/2014 12:41 PM, Alex Handy wrote:

> I'm sure Bonaventura would want a package.

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com

> <mailto:fcifaldi at gmail.com>> wrote:

>

> Yeah, I really don't want to make a huge project out of this, I'm

> just asking the group to throw out some names of places that might

> benefit from these so I can start organizing. I'm obviously not

> going to send packages to everyone, but if there are like ten or

> fifteen places that would clearly benefit I'm happy to send out

> care packages before figuring out what to do with the excess. Thanks!

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Alex Handy <alex at themade.org

> <mailto:alex at themade.org>> wrote:

>

> Yikes, lord no. That's going to be a big list, and a big

> project. We should use some sort of wiki, or something along

> the lines of hackerspaces.org <http://hackerspaces.org>: that

> is a big editable list of preservation institutions and their

> addresses...

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Frank Cifaldi

> <fcifaldi at gmail.com <mailto:fcifaldi at gmail.com>> wrote:

>

> Yes, I'm aware of The MADE and Stanford, I'm asking the

> group if there might be institutions and archives and

> universities I might not have thought of that I should

> send some of these to. My plan right now is to inventory

> and try to get one of everything to the places that need

> them. I doubt either of you need 200 copies of Shellshock:

> Nam '67 or Project Snowblind.

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Alex Handy

> <alex at themade.org <mailto:alex at themade.org>> wrote:

>

> Frank, bring it to the MADE and we'll take whatever's

> left to Henry.

>

>

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Frank Cifaldi

> <fcifaldi at gmail.com <mailto:fcifaldi at gmail.com>> wrote:

>

> Hey group,

>

> This is probably one of those things that we

> should be formally putting together anyway but,

> for now, does anyone want to help put together a

> list of places that could use software, mainly for

> PC, PS2 and Xbox? I have a U-Haul's worth of

> software from Eidos from around that era (and

> slightly before on PC) that I saved from being

> dumped, I want to make sure it all goes to the

> right homes.

>

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