Retronauts Episode 76: Preserving Game Ephemera

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Game preservation advocates Frank Cifaldi, Mike Mika, and Steve Lin of The Video Game History Foundation discuss the challenges and obsessions that drive the search for and archiving of the information and materials surrounding the classics. Be sure to visit our blog at Retronauts.com, and check out our partner site, USgamer, for more great stuff. And if you'd like to send a few bucks our way, head on over to our Patreon page!

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0:00.0	This is your good retro nuts, the Dark Souls of video game collecting.
0:04.0	Welcome to 2 tour by
0:12.3	theme music
0:26.9	O ruled
0:27.7	Südway that new
0:30.8	I haven't made a Dark Souls metaphor on RetroNots before, so it's pretty good.
0:35.3	So I think I'm allowed one considering how often Bob brings up Dark Souls.
0:39.3	I think that's okay.
0:40.8	I think Dark Souls is more prototype stuff.
0:44.1	Uh, it could be.
0:45.6	So what would this be?
0:46.4	Wow, we can figure something out.
0:47.8	Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of RetroNots.
0:51.7	I'm Jeremy Parish and if it sounds a little wonky or if it sounds amazing,
0:55.9	I don't know what's going to happen with the auto quality on this one.
0:58.7	But I'm recording in a hotel room in Santa Clara because it's
1:02.4	uh, California Extreme and I'm here with a bunch of guys who are at California Extreme
1:07.2	but also have a lot to say about this week's topic, which is collecting video game ephemera,
1:12.8	which is a very kind of vague and nebulous uh, topic title.
1:18.2	But basically, you know, we've talked about game collecting, we've talked about um,
1:24.3	sort of presenting games in the best possible way, you know, finding the right technology for
1:28.5	that.
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