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Prattle: Preservatronics

Today's games are tomorrow's historical artifacts. How and why should we preserve them for future study?

Kristen Maxwell, Blogger

April 13, 2011

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Zach Vowell of the UT Videogame Archive tells us why we should bother preserving games, and discusses what needs to be done to make historical game research possible for the future.

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