Leading the charge to establish an state-sanctioned gaming history bastion is the group MO5.com. Already in conversation with the French National Library along with Paris' biggest science museum, the Cite des Sciences, they have a dream: to create a national museum dedicated to the Italian(-American?) plumber. This dream museum would not be an electronic Louvre.
"A video game isn't there to be looked at like a painting or a sculpture, you only really get a feel for it with the joystick in your hand," said Guillaume Verdun, prime mover of MO5.com.
It's potentially the first national attempt to preserve the medium. The possibility of a federal establishment having the presence to get around WTO copyright laws could finally assure that the code will have a proper and legal archival system -- a huge advantage over the current efforts of non-profit museums like CoinOp of New York City.
Source: AFP
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