Originally Posted by
Bojay1997
Maybe before you post you should take the time to read exactly what his Kickstarter states explicitly -
"Creating the physical archive is a necessity to create the media galleries, but what happens to it after that? The last thing I want is such an archive to sit in storage, so I'm working with the NYU Game Centerand The International Center for the History of Electronic Games to help house and display parts of the collection. These items collected for the museum will be available to students and the community.".
Nothing there about donating all of the hardware when this is complete. It simply says he will work with two unrelated archives to help house and display parts of the collection. The museum and the hardware remains his. Frankly, ICHEG has multiples of all of these machines, so I'm not following why he wouldn't just work with them to get access to what he needs. Honestly, if he was looking to raise money for studio time or even to reimburse collectors for shipping costs and insurance for the time he is borrowing their gear, I wouldn't have an issue, but I can't see funding a private collection via Kickstarter just because he is going to make photos of that private collection public. Heck, almost every collector here could make the same argument as there is literally a dedicated section of the site devoted to collection photos.
