WHO urges people to stay at home and play video games Read the whole article over at Eurogamer! Your own collection of magazines is part of video game history, even if you might think it is irrelevant compared to the Nintendo Play System. In the coming years, researching personal histories might become more commonplace. Collections of magazines and other media outlets can become very important in the coming years, as hard- and software are susceptible to data rot, incompatibilty and other problems. The article by Nicholls goes on, and makes an interesting point on the preservation of hardware and software such as the PlayStation: placing those on a pedestal is easy, but personal video game histories are important as well. They talked to Frank Cifaldi of the Videogame History Foundation, who describes it as a ‘view into an alternate timeline’.
Florence Smith Nicholls from Eurogamer wondered how video game historians thought about the media frenzy. Interestingly, a lot of value has been given to this almost mythical piece of hardware.
Not so long ago, we posted about the Nintendo PlayStation, the doomed collaboration between Sony and Nintendo, being auctioned for over $380,000.
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