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The archive isn't even open to the public, why should the public donate games then?

What other archives or museums are there for video games that are accepting donations of physical game media? There are probably a lot of HN readers with old games in the attic that are bound for the landfill once they get around to it.

I know of one in my small country, I thus assume there's many especially in the US

Embracer Games is Swedish, not American.

https://www.themade.org/

> "To donate items to the MADE, bring your donation to the front desk during open hours."

Quite a long trip for many. That seems to signify that they're not a large enough organization to be an archive.

So sorry, I am just a block away right now. I should go and take a photo. It's a great place. They have a Vetrix vector game computer, but they said it was ... Delicate... And I said and probably irreplaceable.

Not a museum or archive as such but in the UK there is this https://www.rmcretro.com/

Has a large collection of old systems and games, magazines and anything else they can get hold of. It's also open to visitors.

> Not a museum

That is two museums. It's in the title: "Hands-On Vintage Technology Museums" and mentioned all over the front page.

https://oldbytes.space/@bloopmuseum

We'll miss it, now that it's moved from Baltimore to a larger space in Pittsburg. I have donated to it, and hope it continues on well past my lifetime.

I've been to the new space, and it's gonna be great - though there's a lot of work ahead in moving.

The Video Game History Foundation is the real deal.

https://gamehistory.org/

Their Library Director Phil Salvador is a serious historian, who extensively researched, interviewed people, and wrote a comprehensive deep dive into the history of Maxis's serious games division, Maxis Business Simulations, John Hiles, and SimRefinery.

It was such an widely read, well received investigation, that it led to the recovery of SimRefinery when a reader discovered an old floppy disk of it that had been sitting in a drawer for decades!

https://archive.org/details/sim-refinery

https://gamehistory.org/library-director-phil-salvador/

https://gamehistory.org/ep-11-simrefinery-simulated-by-a-ref...

https://obscuritory.com/

https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6Cqn5rTfs

Try sending it to www.themade.org or email info@themade.org. they have like 17,000 or more, and 50,000 items.

It’s like the seed bank, except all the seeds are effectively dead, because no one can use them. But, they have the seeds’ pretty shells and can imagine what plants they once were.

Personally, I think there should be a non-profit that works with non-profits like this, computer and console equipment museums, Internet Archive, and a spacefaring company to ensure that history is protected in a logical way.

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