Retronick
04-20-2012, 12:20 AM
I had the opportunity to hear Joe "digitalpress" Santulli, Gary Vincent (President, ACAM), John Andersen (Writer, Gamasutra), and Raiford Guins (Professor, Stony Brook University), speak at PAX East 2012 about preserving video games, and the many terrible ways we're losing them to the sands of time.
I summarized the bulk of the panel in my article here (http://www.retronick.com/2012/04/pax-east-2012-selecting-save-panel/), to give everyone who either couldn't make it out to PAX East, or just missed the panel, an idea of what all was covered.
Joe was kind enough to hold up his prototype Sega Genesis modem for me (an Edge-16), so I could get a nice, clear picture. The thing even had a tech's notes on the back!
I'm curious to see what others here think of the panel and to see who's got crazy rare prototypes they're preserving for the ages. Also, if anyone here was at the actual panel, just say "hey!"
I summarized the bulk of the panel in my article here (http://www.retronick.com/2012/04/pax-east-2012-selecting-save-panel/), to give everyone who either couldn't make it out to PAX East, or just missed the panel, an idea of what all was covered.
Joe was kind enough to hold up his prototype Sega Genesis modem for me (an Edge-16), so I could get a nice, clear picture. The thing even had a tech's notes on the back!
I'm curious to see what others here think of the panel and to see who's got crazy rare prototypes they're preserving for the ages. Also, if anyone here was at the actual panel, just say "hey!"