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i can't really believe this research was never done or published over the years. it's funny how basic knowledge like this disappears: the original typeface that graced the cover of every Ultima game.
"Victorian" was created by english typeface designers Freda Sack and Colin Brignall in 1976, and was included in the ITC typeface library.
top: Victorian Standard Regular typeface.
bottom: Worlds of Ultima - Martian Dreams box cover, with a slightly modified version of the Victorian font. You'll notice that the M has a very pretty descender added by an artist at Origin Systems. i *suspect* this was painted or airbrushed by Denis Loubet (does anyone know denis here?), but there are no credits given in any of the manuals.
both use an exactly 64 point font.
Buying physical games means nothing now. Looks like Indiana Jones on the PS5 is just 20 GB on the disc and requires you to download the whole game.
#ps5 #gamepreservation #drm #indianajones
European Gamers!
I (still) encourage you to support the "Stop Killing Games" Initiative and share it around. It runs until the end of July THIS YEAR!
(follow the guide, there is only one chance to support):
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
Accompanying video by Ross Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI
#gaming #gamePreservation #art #pcgaming #consolegaming #gamers #videogames #eu #europe A BIG explainer video by Ross Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEVBiN5SKuA
www.stopkillinggames.comStop Killing Games
Sony Unveils PlayStation Studios Vault Game Preservation Project
#gamepreservation #PlayStationStudios #PlayStationVault #retrogaming #Sony
https://blazetrends.com/sony-unveils-playstation-studios-vault-game-preservation-project/?fsp_sid=2245
Blaze Trends · Sony Unveils PlayStation Studios Vault Game Preservation ProjectImagine a vault so massive it stores over 200 million files, dating back more than 30 years. This is the reality of the PlayStation Studios Vault, a project
Oltre 400.000 firme per la petizione "Stop Destroying Video Games", che chiede agli editori di garantire la giocabilità offline anche dopo la chiusura dei server. La petizione segue la chiusura dei server di giochi come The Crew e Gran Turismo Sport. #giochipc #videogiochi #gamepreservation
#Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition: status update on our endeavour to become the hub of all video game metadata: 110,000 items, 70 new identifier properties, and a lot of video game genres.
https://commonists.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2024-edition/
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how badly did infocom want to sell this as a Wasteland competitor? take a look at the back of the boxes. they even used the same typeface. left: Mines of Titan. right: Wasteland.
it is safe to say that 90% of my taste in computer games is thanks to the original abandonware site Home of the Underdogs. every few months i’d make it a point to download one of their Top Dog awarded games, and all of them lived up to it.
in particular, westwood/infocom’s Mines of Titan always interested me. it never quite fit into infocom’s IF catalog, and it predated the much more popular Eye of the Beholder. i always avoided it because it looked like just another dungeon crawler.
as it turns out, Mines of Titan is far closer to Wasteland or Neuromancer than any other game. part text adventure, part rpg, it evokes a surprisingly unique world that easily fits in a philip k dick styled universe.
today, the box arrived after two decades of looking for one. per infocom’s exceptional marketing company, the browsies included in the box are wonderful - official letterheads and employee bulletins from mars corporations.
digital preservation and archivist friends: it came to my attention recently that mobygames was bought by some trashy atari holding corporation a few years ago. all of the scans and item entries that many of us slaved over for the past 25 years were sold off. anyone submitting mobygames entries/updates are effectively working for free now.
i can't say i'm unhappy to see it going downhill with the new owners. updates to entries went from taking 1 day for approval from moderators, to 4-6 months.
it also had a frustrating limitation of declaring any software outside of its very traditional definition of game as out-of-scope.
that being said, it's a critical service for those researching and writing about games.
i'd like to know if there are any publicly-owned database initiatives in development to replace and/or subsume mobygames.
and if not, let's build one.
if you're into the history of Ultima, Origin Systems and ebooks, andrea contato has released his Through the Moongate Part 1 (200 pages) for free for the next few days
i'll spare you a book review - but yes, it's worth reading. it got a poor quality translation from italian, but the stories are still enjoyable.
https://www.amazon.com/Through-Moongate-Richard-Garriott-Systems-ebook/dp/B07SKKTSNQ
www.amazon.comAmazon.com: Through the Moongate. The Story of Richard Garriott, Origin Systems Inc. and Ultima: Part 1 - From Akalabeth to Ultima VI eBook : Contato, Andrea, Loubet, Denis, Ricciardi, Enrico, Przygienda, Andreas, McGeachie, Ellouise: Kindle StoreAmazon.com: Through the Moongate. The Story of Richard Garriott, Origin Systems Inc. and Ultima: Part 1 - From Akalabeth to Ultima VI eBook : Contato, Andrea, Loubet, Denis, Ricciardi, Enrico, Przygienda, Andreas, McGeachie, Ellouise: Kindle Store
The AAA video games industry's shear hostility toward games preservation is just insane. Nintendo is here burning the entire emulation scene to the ground in the off chance that 1 person might pirate a video game. All while doing jack squat toward making their back catalog available for modern game players.
GamesIndustry.biz · Nintendo patent attorney clarifies company's zero-tolerance position on emulation
Hello Mastodon crowd. I just came from X.com, where you find my old post https://x.com/A_Lange_Berlin
#computergames #videogames #digitalgames #gamingculture #gamingheritage #classicgames #digitalheritage #digitalpreservation
#digitalculture #borndigitalculture
#culturalheritage #gamepreservation #gamingheritage
The Century Game Jam is going on now! It's a very laid-back Jam where ANYONE can submit games at ANY TIME for THE REST OF THEIR LIVES!
This was inspired by a Game Jam I ran across that is currently ongoing and is supposed to last for a decade. The purpose of this Jam is to promote long-term preservation of video games - past, present, and future - and have them continue to work potentially forever, so that people generations from now can enjoy the games that we make today!
There is only one rule, really - NSFW submissions are not allowed. That means explicit sex, gore, and strong language should not be present in your game, else it will be removed. If you want to preserve such games, I recommend starting your own Jam for that!
Interested in preserving your games? JOIN NOW! https://itch.io/jam/the-century-game-jam
itch.ioThe Century Game JamA game jam from 2025-01-01 to 2125-01-01 hosted by Timothy Green. One rule - No NSFW submissions. One century - We'll all be dead before it ends. One goal - To make indie games accessible for all time. There's no ran...
European Gamers!
I (still) encourage you to support the "Stop Killing Games" Initiative and share it around.
(follow the guide, there is only one chance to support):
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
Accompanying video by Ross Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI
#gaming #gamePreservation #art #gamers #videogames #eu #europe A BIG explainer video by Ross Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEVBiN5SKuA
www.stopkillinggames.comStop Killing Games
I'm on the GOG mailing list - they alert you about deals and free game giveaways there. After I just redeemed a giveaway, they confirm what's in this image. I love it. Offline play. No DRM. Safeguards and rollbacks.
GOG has also been making promising steps for game preservation lately with their 'Preservation Program' for 'Good Old Games' that currently includes 92 games, and they're adding more (see https://www.yahoo.com/tech/gog-launches-preservation-program-porting-182458795.html).
GOG is doing things RIGHT.
huge thanks to @talin for uploading his Faery Tale Adventure (amiga) source to github
several users are already hard at work digesting the source tree and getting things working. one of the best is Xarklabs' ongoing SDL2 port, located here:
https://github.com/XarkLabs/faery-tale-amiga/tree/macos
talin's original source here:
https://github.com/viridia/faery-tale-amiga
Gibt es irgendeine legale Möglichkeit in Deutschland als Maintainer eines third-party Install Wizards (in diesem Fall Lutris scripts) No-CD Patches verfügbar zu machen?
Wenn ich das hier richtig lese würde ich mich strafbar machen wenn ich jene (heutzutage oft technisch notwendigen) Patches als Download verfügbar mache. Das machts mir aber quasi unmöglich Maintainer zu sein, und ich halte die Regel für moralisch falsch.
#Recht #legal #GamePreservation
Oh nice, seems GoG started a game preservation program:
Blog post: https://www.gog.com/blog/the-gog-preservation-program/
GOG.COM · The GOG Preservation Program Makes Games Live Forever | GOG.COMGOG commits its own resources to maintain classic titles playable, now and in the future. We are launching the program with 100 games and will add more in the next few months.
See, this is why the companies' claims that they preserve games and make them available now is bullshit. Because eventually they'll do crap like this. Delisting games isn't preservation. The companies don't care.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sega-to-delist-multiple-games-from-classics-collections
GamesIndustry.biz · Sega to delist multiple games from Classics collections