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He started to preserve video games and video-game artifacts in 1998, and in the years following, he has noted that video games are something worthy of preserving. [1] Henry Lowood submitted the proposal to the Library of Congress in September 2006, and during the 2007 Game Developers Conference , he announced the game canon.
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 ...
On March 12, 2007, The New York Times reported that Spacewar! was named to a list of the ten most important video games in history, the so-called game canon, which were proposed to be archived in the Library of Congress. [39] The Library of Congress took up this video game preservation proposal and began with the games from this list.
The pilot for the American Memory project was a digitization program which started in 1990. Selected Library of Congress holdings including examples of film, video, audio recordings, books and photographs were digitized and distributed on Laserdisc and CD-ROM.
Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times features columnist, partakes in an immersive, game-like experience at the Atwater Village branch library in Los Angeles. The project, called the Bureau of Nooks and ...
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 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 JANITOR arcade game. Janitor Bleeds is an exploration horror game in which the player is trapped in an abandoned arcade after becoming stranded in a car accident. One of the arcade cabinets, titled JANITOR, contains a playable arcade puzzle video game, which provides the player with items that allow them to progress in their exploration of the arcade, such as tools to open up new areas.