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Museo del Videojuego

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An online project dedicated to preserving and sharing video-game and computing history. It states that it gathers data, images, magazines and videos, and maintains a database with more than 21,000 video-game entries and 800 consoles.

ENTITY DATA

Type: Museum
Year: Pending verification
Country or region: Global / undetermined
Status: Documented

VERIFIED SOURCES

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Objetivo del Museo del Videojuego | Museo del Videojuegobrave_web · 65%
Blog | Museo del Videojuegobrave_web · 65%

Video-game preservation encompasses hardware, software, documents, advertising, magazines, audiovisual materials and the cultural conditions of use. Drawing on Spanish initiatives and academic debates, this article defines what can be verified about that work and why a playable copy does not exhaust a game’s history.

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Analysis · contemporary

Preserving Video Games Means Preserving Their Contexts

Spanish museums, archives and associations show that conserving video games also means caring for machines, software, documentation, images, publications and the means of access that make the whole intelligible.

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Analysis · 2000

Preserving Video Games Means Preserving More Than Games

A look at archives, museums, and projects that treat video games as material and digital culture: games, machines, documents, software, and the decisions that shape their public memory.

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Analysis · 2000

Saving the Game Is Not Enough: What It Means to Preserve Videogame History

Preserving videogames means attending to software, hardware, documents and contexts of use. Drawing on published archives, museums and analysis, this article examines what gets preserved, what may be left out, and why every archival decision also interprets the medium’s history.

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Analysis · 2000

Preserving a Video Game Means More Than Saving the Game

Video game history is distributed across software, hardware, documentation and experience. Preservation projects show why saving only one part cannot tell the whole story of the medium.

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Museo del Videojuego

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Preserving a Video Game Means More Than Saving the Game