Library of Congress Considers Archiving Games

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday May 3, 2006 @04:51AM from the four-score-and-twenty-metroids-ago dept.

GamePolitics reports on talks at the U.S. Library of Congress concerning archiving our digital cultural heritage, including games. From the article: "The initiative is called 'Preserving Creative America,' and plans to compile (with industry help) a list of the commercial digital content most at risk of loss or degradation. The initiative will also develop ideas for preservation, business models to help maintain archives, and promote discussions between the archives and commercial content producers so that the archives are kept up to date. CM: Hopefully the Library of Congress will consider that many PC games were rushed to market before they were ready. Critical software patches should be included in the archive. That's right Sierra, I'm talking about you."

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Ahem by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-03 05:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Torrent please.
Right next to the Ark of the Covenant ... by rlp · 2006-05-03 05:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Right next to the Ark of the Covenant ... a copy of Duke Nukem Forever.

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Might not be a good idea... by Karl+Cocknozzle · 2006-05-03 06:06 · Score: 2, Funny

...I don't know about you, but I don't want my Grandkids/Wife/whoever knowing how many hookers I beat up while playing GTA3: Vice City.

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