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The game canon is a list of video games to be considered for preservation by the Library of Congress. The New York Times called the creation of this list "an assertion that digital games have a cultural significance and a historical significance". [ 1 ]
Video game preservation is a form of preservation applied to the video game industry that includes, but is not limited to, digital preservation.Such preservation efforts include archiving development source code and art assets, digital copies of video games, emulation of video game hardware, maintenance and preservation of specialized video game hardware such as arcade games and video game ...
Member libraries of the program submit records, which conform to a shared set of standards, for use by all other member libraries. [4] Records are sent to the Library of Congress, which collects records on the program's behalf. [9] A library may participate in some or all of these subcomponents; as of the early 2000s, NACO was the most popular ...
Only the best hidden object games surround a mystery, right? No, wait--that's: "Only every hidden object game surrounds a mystery." But, oh, what mystery you'll find here amid the pseudo-realistic ...
The Foundation launched its Video Game Source Project in October 2020, an effort to collect the original source code and other assets for classic video games which it will house in its archives and make available for researchers. [12] The first two games added to this include The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. [13]
The Library of Congress recently made headlines by announcing an unusual acquisition: every public tweet ever sent on Twitter. Cleverly, it made the announcement by Twitter -- and the interest ...
The Library of Congress is so huge that it takes in three separate buildings on Capitol Hill; the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John Adams Building, and the James Madison Memorial Building. With ...
Beginning in 1996, the Library of Congress sponsored a three-year competition with a $2 million gift from the Ameritech Corporation to enable public research, and academic libraries, museums, historical societies, and archival institutions (with the exception of federal institutions) to digitize American history collections and make them ...