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Kotaku 
02/15/09
Really Kotaku, I wish I could say I'm surprised but I'm not. This kind of sensationalist crap is what I've come to expect from you. You are flat out lying to people.
"Announced in September 2008, the Archive is working to preserve, analyse and display the products of the global videogame industry by placing games in their historical, social, political and cultural contexts. This means treating videogames as more than inert, digital code: at the heart of the National Videogames Archive is the determination to document the full life of games, from protoypes and early sketches, through box-art, advertising and media coverage, to mods, fanart and community activities."
02/15/09
This article is about KEEP's proposed software project - a general purpose emulator. Mr. Newman, quoted in said article, heads up the Archive - a separate project.
Please click the link at the end of the article.
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02/13/09
Then comes the problem with hardware gimmicks and such to play those old games as well, like Virtual Boy's controller to name such an example.
I wish them luck on doing so, but the possibility of emulating every game possible, is nigh impossible in my book. Some of the crucial data needed to do so is probably lost at this time, you'd need a dedicated team and likely the help of an emulator community to get close to accomplishing this.
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02/14/09
Some games are nigh impossible to find, even with the internet.
Monolith's awesome Get Medieval! comes to mind.
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02/13/09
Basicly it was mostly Space Invaders set to a background of WTC that no matter what you did, the towers always fall.
02/14/09
I love it when people put art in quotation marks when they find it questionable or offensive. Being questionable or offensive is one of art's functions.
E.G.: Fountain by Duchamp (and everything Dada for that matter), The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault, Goya's "Black Paintings" and La Maja Desnuda and (much) more recently Delvoye's Cloaca.
Consider for a moment how many things we take for granted were considered offensive or questionable 10, 50, 100 or 500 years ago and then consider why they're taken for granted today. Because someone dared.
From scientific theories to art, things came to be as they are because someone had the balls.
So like it, or don't like it. That's entirely up to you. But denying its validity is juvenile and anti-progressive. History will decide if this was a shot in the dark or part of a movement.
02/13/09
The birth of Skynet.
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02/14/09
We call that Missile Command.
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