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UK Opens National Video Game Archive
BBC News reports that the UK is acknowledging video games as a "key component of modern culture" by opening the National Videogame Archive inside the National Media Museum.
"'The National Videogame Archive is an important resource for preserving elements of our national cultural heritage,' said Dr Newman. 'It's not just about cartridges and consoles, it's also about video game culture, the ways in which people actually play them. Unlike film and music, it's very difficult to walk into a retail store and walk out with a bunch of games from the 1970's,' said Dr Newman. He feels that games should be archived in the same way that music, books and film are preserved, as we often use them as markers in our culture and history."
There's a similar archive at the University of Texas at Austin. What games would you put on display?
Daikatana.
Why? So future generations may know how exactly not to create a game.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Elite *on the Commodore 64* ? what's wrong with this picture Commander Jameson?
Which gibbering simpleton tagged this UK-based story yourtaxDOLLARSatwork?
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
I'd like to see how they capture all the bigotry and name calling on Xbox Live. Hopefully they have some recordings of actually taunts while playing Halo 3 online with some 12 year old kid.
Will they also have a wax model of a 12 year old kid with cheetohs all over his fingers and lips?
Can I bum a sig?