‘Grand Theft Archive’: A Quantitative Analysis of the State of Computer Game Preservation

Computer games, like other digital media, are extremely vulnerable to long-term loss, yet little work has been done to preserve them. As a result we are experiencing large-scale loss of the early years of gaming history. Computer games are an important part of modern popular culture, and yet are aff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2008-12-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/85