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Title: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: BobA on April 06, 2007, 11:47:24 pm: News article on CNET about a huge game collection donated to Stanford U. Video so you have to put up with a commercial.

Link (http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6174194.html?tag=nefd.aof)
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: bfauska on April 06, 2007, 11:58:55 pm: That's pretty cool. I agree with the interviewee about the packaging itself being an important artifact. Those boxes remind me of a different time in my life, and the design work on the boxes is an art that will now be preserved.
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: danny_galaga on April 07, 2007, 10:02:37 pm: my craptastic innernets only let me look at the ad! which was nice...

just curious about a link on that site:

http://news.com.com/2300-1043_3-6168159-1.html

how the hell did they decide these are the top ten most important games ever?
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: BobA on April 08, 2007, 12:04:21 pm: I guess the guy picked the top ten out of his hat. I don't see any reference to sources so they must be his choices. I cannot figure out why that soccer game is in the list at all.
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: KenToad on April 08, 2007, 12:14:49 pm: Quote from: danny_galaga on April 07, 2007, 10:02:37 pm

my craptastic innernets only let me look at the ad! which was nice...

just curious about a link on that site:

http://news.com.com/2300-1043_3-6168159-1.html

how the hell did they decide these are the top ten most important games ever?

Well, I don't think they are the best games ever, but I could dig that they might be the most important landmarks in gaming history, i.e. games that defined genres.

This just makes me think that I am justified in thinking that Ivy League Colleges are mainly for rich people and their offspring. That collector was a former student there, at Stanford.

Yes, I'm jealous.
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: KenToad on April 08, 2007, 08:00:19 pm: Quote from: pinballjim on April 08, 2007, 05:03:32 pm
Stanford isn't Ivy League.

Doesn't matter, though, most of those prestigious colleges only admit 3 kinds of people:

1 - genuinely deserving people that can't afford to get in and get subsidized

2 - mediocre offspring of parents that can foot the entire bill

3 - some underrepresented group that's forced into 10s of thousands of dollars of debt, but makes the school look good

I've known all members of all three and none of them were any better qualified than most college applicants.

ok, I agree, guess I was just venting. :cheers:
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: boykster on April 09, 2007, 08:38:40 pm: I change my opinion on USSEnterprise's education...

GO TO STANFORD YOUNG MAN!

(and send me a bunch of boxes of games)
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: Texasmame on April 10, 2007, 11:13:09 am: Quote from: pinballjim on April 07, 2007, 05:56:59 pm
Sadly, most of that garbage will fit on a 10 cent DVDR that I can play in my Xbox.

Edit: man, after watching that clip, that guy sure seemed 'thrilled' to have to be dealing with that stuff. "80% of it is still in the original packaging". Pathetic.

Why you be slaggin' on the old school? :angry:

When I had my Atari Home Systems collection, I LOVED the feelings and memories that simply having the games brought back. Boxed ones were even better. Had some sealed ones, too which remained sealed.

YOU BETTA RECOGNIZE, CHUMP!!! :cheers:
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: patrickl on April 10, 2007, 03:18:02 pm: Sensible soccer rulez!
Title: Re: 25,000 games archived at Stanford
Post by: rovingmind on April 10, 2007, 04:33:55 pm: I wouldn't mind having that spacewar

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