I’m still out and about, so here’s one more Revisited post for you all, one I think is still relevant. With tons of games getting shutdown and digital becoming ever more prevalent, we really need a legal way to preserve games for the future. Otherwise, gaming very well might just lose its past.
Tag: video game history
There Should Be a Legal Path to ROMs
Nintendo been in the news again lately, this time for getting another ROM site to take down all their ROMs under threat of legal penalties. I’ve been kind of split on this issue for a long time. One one hand, all game companies are well within their rights to defend their IP, but I’m not…
My personal plea to those in the game industry
(Above: Photo of exhibit at the Computer and Video Game Archive, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.) Save your records. And no, I don’t mean those things that go on turntables and produce sounds — I mean your records. The paper and digital content you produce every day. The documentation of your work,…
Things are so different than the were 30 years ago…or are they?
Though we’re just a few months into 2013, it’s already shaping up to be quite a year for gaming. As we now look to the next generation of consoles, established companies have disappeared (THQ, LucasArts) or met with financial strain (Atari). A plethora of new sequels and new IPs have promised (and, in some cases…
VIRTUAL BASTION 