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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 ...
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 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. [13] The first two games added to this include The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. [14]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...