UK's First Official National Videogame Archive Launched

[Rowan]

Interesting...

"The UK’s first official National Videogame Archive is being launched
in a bid to preserve the history of a global industry now worth an
estimated £22bn. Formed by academics at Nottingham Trent University
and working in partnership with the National Media Museum in Bradford,
the archive will recognise the significant contributions made by
videogames to the diversity of popular culture across the globe - from
the humble beginnings of 1972’s ‘Pong’, to the blockbusters of the
21st Century.

The new archive will be housed at the National Media Museum and will
be managed, steered and researched in collaboration with Nottingham
Trent University’s Centre for Contemporary Play. The Centre draws on
academic strengths across a range of disciplines, including
psychology, cultural studies, art and design and computer science. In
return, the Museum will provide the best levels of care and
stewardship for the archive.


In addition to a treasure trove of consoles and cartridges, the
archive will collect and gather a broad range of items from across the
industry. It will encompass the wider cultural phenomenon of
videogames by documenting advertising campaigns, magazine reviews,
artwork and the communities that sustain them - the overall aim being
to collect, celebrate and preserve this vital cultural form for future
generations."

[Mister Savage]

You should put that up on Digital Natives ;-)