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"I’ve been banging on a bit lately about the importance of video game
preservation as a matter of art preservation. It’s not entirely clear to me how
much buy in there is out there in general on this concept, but it’s a challenge
in this specific industry because much of the control over what can be
preserved or not sits in the hands of game publishers and platforms compared
with other forms of art. Books have libraries, films have the academies and
museums, and music is decently preserved all over the place. But for gaming,
even organizations like the Video Game History Foundation have to rely on
publishers and platforms to let them do their work, or risk art being lost
entirely to the digital ether or lawsuits over copyright. We’ve talked in the
past about how copyright law is far too often used in a way that results in a
loss of our own cultural history, and digital-only video games are particularly
vulnerable to that.
We just discussed Nintendo’s forthcoming shutdown of the 3DS and Wii U stores,
and what that meant for digital games that Nintendo indicates it is not
planning on selling anywhere else. Well, the Video Game History Foundation
released a statement on that action and, well, hoo-boy…"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
