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Embracer Group is creating an archive to preserve games historyThey already have a “secret vault” with 50,000 games
They already have a “secret vault” with 50,000 games
MegacorpEmbracer Grouphas announced that they are building a games archive, to preserve games culture and save it for the future. The project is in the early stages, but they’ve already got 50,000 games and consoles stored up waiting to be catalogued.
Their “early access” video shows the underground “secret vault” in Sweden where they keep all of the objects they’ve collected so far.
Early access to the Embracer Group games archiveWatch on YouTube
Early access to the Embracer Group games archive
Alongside games cartridges and disks, I spy a set of games cabinets, a life-size Stormtrooper figurine, and…a couch?
According to theirwebsite, the mission of the archive is “to have a copy of each physical game ever released,” that will continue to update as new games come out. They’ve recently brought on a team to tackle the mountain of stuff they’ve managed to acumulate and turn it into something manageable. Once that’s done, they’re hoping to be able to collaborate with other archival institutions and open up to researchers and journalists who want to investigate gaming history.
So far they’ve been picking through and highlighting some interesting finds, like theKonami silver boxesor the proliferaton ofhorse games.
“What’s important for the future is making sure that we have some kind of record of what the game was like in these moments of time,” she said. That’s exactly what theAnimal Crossing Diarieshopes to do. The same goes for the work of the Slovak Design Museum, whichrecently translateda collection of ’80s text adventures, providing the necessary context of the time alongside their wider availability to English speakers.
