Selecting Save On The Games We Make: Pax East

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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, 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!"

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I wonder if that is a built-in speaker (on the Edge-16 modem) just so you could hear the annoying dial-up sound effects..

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I wonder if that is a built-in speaker (on the Edge-16 modem) just so you could hear the annoying dial-up sound effects..

Believe it or not, I think it actually is... Did you catch this pic of the back of it with the tech's notes scrawled on a label?

[SpaceHarrier]

Ah, I missed that. It would have been one more layer in the great Sega tower of power. Just imagine a Sega CD base, genesis, modem, 32x, game genie, Sonic&Knuckles with Sonic 3 piled on top...

[Retronick]

Ah, I missed that. It would have been one more layer in the great Sega tower of power. Just imagine a Sega CD base, genesis, modem, 32x, game genie, Sonic&Knuckles with Sonic 3 piled on top...

Sadly, this sleek little bastard was never released. It's one of the only one of its kind in existance. Though the cockroach high rise you described could be made with an X-Band modem and a Power Base Converter!