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U.S. Senator Wants to End Govt.'s Preservation of Video Games
Submitted by OS_Gamer; December 27, 2011
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn is upset that the government has spent money preserving video games.
Tom Coburn has been a huge part of the recent austerity movement that is sweeping the US government, and now he has his eyes trained on video games. His gripe is with The International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) getting over $100,000 from the government to help preserve their massive collection of over 23,000 pieces.
To be fair, this guy probably has nothing against video games. I'm sure his grandkids play them and he just sees them as harmless fun, but nothing that the US government needs to spend money on. The government is bleeding money on many strange things, and Coburn goes after them as well in his "Wastebook 2011."
What do you think? Should the government be involved in video games like it is in other art forms? Does doing so lend more credence to video games as an actual art form? Should games like Call of Duty and Battlefield 3 be preserved for all time?
[Via Kotaku]
Tags: battlefield 3, Call of Duty, ICHEG
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Hell yeah!
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Saving $100,000 isn't even going to make a dent in their economic problems.
Also, no I don't think BF3 and MW3 should be preserved. Unless its to make an example of them. BF3's campaign reeked of CoD gameplay anyway, and MW3 was, well, MW for the third time. Battlefield 2 and MW2 or CoD2 would be better choices to preserve.
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I say if they are going to preserve vidya games, preserve the classics like Combat, Super Mario Bros., those types of games.
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One wonders how much government money is spent yearly on Coburn's "Wastebook"...
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I consider games to be an artform, both classic and modern, well, some of them at least. They're important part of gaming development, as well as art and technology development. Think, if gaming wasn't popular, there wouldn't be an as strong demand to get monster computers accessible to the average consumer, and PC's would probably be set back a couple of years.
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theirs a "The International Center for the History of Electronic Games" omg ... my mind is blown, but wher is it?... and can some say "road trip"? ... on a new note i wonder if they will open their database of games to the public for download :)
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If the gaming community wants to preserve the games asart form than they have the right to do it... At their expense. The government does not have the authority to to use the tax payers money on such stupid things. Form an organization, and do it on your own if the games are that important to you.
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100,000 is nothing in government dollars. That's like a few ski trips for a senator.
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double post. sorry.
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Much like books and Library of Congress, all games should be preserved regardless of people's opinion about them. Even companies like LJN, known for making bad games, have a place in history and tell us something about the times. What about infamously bad games like Pac-Man or E.T. for the Atari? They are practically credited for the video game crash of 1983. Should they not be preserved because they were of poor quality?
Even if you do not like the flood of FPS games, in 50 years they will be, like it or not, a sign of the times and therefore should be preserved for posterity.
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