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Rob Zacny has a thought provoking piece up at the Escapist: on the whole, we're the worst genre when it comes to preserving our history, even the great classics acknowledged as 'great.' In a society ? never mind technical area ? where progress and marching forward is the name of the game, it's not exactly surprising, but a problem nonetheless. And not just for the history buffs among us:

Gamers are used to this problem by now, but that doesn't make it any more tolerable. Imagine if nobody could listen to a Duke Ellington record, or watch a Hitchcock movie, or read a Yeats poem. Not only would that rob us of our cultural inheritance, it would eliminate the influence that these artists have on contemporary culture. The same principles should apply to games. As gamers, we need to recognize that some games are more than disposable diversions, and that their relevance endures even as the technology that created and supported them falls into obsolescence.

Preserving and promoting classic games is vital to the health of the entire industry. In gaming, as much as any art form, "merit" is not always self-evident. Anyone with a passionate interest in game development should have a sense of what has already been achieved, and that cannot be developed if gamers are only playing "the latest and greatest" titles.

Zacny suggests a concerted effort at rereleases, a 'classics revival' of sorts. I'm personally quite excited by the fact that several institutions are making a concerted effort at planning for and undertaking archiving of games and consoles ? I hope, much like my beloved books that were out of print by the middle of the 19th century but were lovingly reprinted in the 20th, we see a trickle down effect from that. A more concerted effort on the part of publishers would be fabulous, but that will require an audience hungry to purchase this stuff.

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Preserving Our History: Good Games Never Go Out of Style [History Is Fun!]
Rob Zacny has a thought provoking piece up at the Escapist: on the whole, we're the worst genre when it comes to preserving our history, even the great classics acknowledged as 'great.' In a society ? never mind technical area ? where progress and marching forward is the name of th [..] Read complete article
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Is The PC Key To Preserving Our Console Gaming History? [Speak-Up On Kotaku]
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Few Of History's Top Books Made Into Games, Good Or Bad [Books]
With EA's Dante's Inferno game on the verge of release, draw your eyes to some lists of the 100 greatest books of all time. Few games have been made based on the books, for better or worse. I found a Top 100 Books list from Newsweek (a meta list of other lists), posted last sum [..] Read complete article
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Explore The History Of Panzer Dragoon [Videogame History]
The Panzer Dragoon series is one of Sega's most successful yet most under-utilized, and in a way I am glad. While Sega's flagship sonic the Hedgehog series has been nearly beaten to death by their own hands, Panzer D [..] Read complete article
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It's Not Looking Good for the Videogame History Museum [History]
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The History Of 2010's Games [History]
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Can Games Handle History? [Feature]
Click here to read The Grey Developers (Or, Where Did All The Young Ones Go?) - The Grey Developers (Or, Where Did All The Young Ones Go?) [Dude Huge] Human history is the greatest story ever told. It's also, courtesy of the attached social, political and religious significance, the most dangerous. So what happens when games try and tell it? All kinds of things. See, games do history a little d [..] Read complete article
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Finding The Art In Video Games [The Art History Of Games]
Where is art found in video games? Ian Bogost and a panel of experts tackled this question and more yesterday at The Art History of Games symposium in Atlanta, Georgia. The Art History of Games isn't simply another venue to show off particularly lovely screenshots or painti [..] Read complete article
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'Playing With History': the State of Historical Games [History]
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The History of Early Computer Games. In Iraq. [Iraq]
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Magic the Gathering?s Secret Sci-Fi History [Tabletop Games]
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