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Kelsey Lewin, co-director Video Game History Foundation.
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My guest today is co-director of the Video Game History Foundation, the non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games.
In 2017, after graduating college, my guest helped curate an Atari-themed pop-up exhibition at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Two years later Game Informer enlisted her as a volunteer to digitize the magazine’s entire archive at its Minnesota headquarters. After five weeks of intense work, she became the Video Game History Foundation’s co-director.
Described by the New Yorker magazine as “compact and laser focussed”, since then she has sifted through thousands of old documents, discs, magazines, and prototypes in an effort to rescue the video game medium’s history from oblivion.
“Once institutions can see that putting effort and funding behind video game preservation in a useful, sustainable way is possible — I think they’ll do it,” she recently wrote. “We’re working on it, but the work is just beginning.”
Play the console:
- Pokémon Crystal
- Animal Crossing
- Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
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77 episoder
Manage episode 364062508 series 3439405
My guest today is co-director of the Video Game History Foundation, the non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games.
In 2017, after graduating college, my guest helped curate an Atari-themed pop-up exhibition at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Two years later Game Informer enlisted her as a volunteer to digitize the magazine’s entire archive at its Minnesota headquarters. After five weeks of intense work, she became the Video Game History Foundation’s co-director.
Described by the New Yorker magazine as “compact and laser focussed”, since then she has sifted through thousands of old documents, discs, magazines, and prototypes in an effort to rescue the video game medium’s history from oblivion.
“Once institutions can see that putting effort and funding behind video game preservation in a useful, sustainable way is possible — I think they’ll do it,” she recently wrote. “We’re working on it, but the work is just beginning.”
Play the console:
- Pokémon Crystal
- Animal Crossing
- Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Thank you for listening to My Perfect Console. Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter; your small monthly subscription will help to make the podcast sustainable for the long term, and you'll receive bonus content, and access to the My Perfect Console community: https://www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole
Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
77 episoder
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