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Video Game History Foundation expands its preservation efforts by making "one of the first American" games magazines available for free
After celebrating the launch of its digital library earlier this year, the preservation-focused Video Game History Foun…
The foundation - which describes itself as a "non-profit organisation dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games" - acquired a complete run of Computer Entertainer from Marylou Badeaux last year, and began digitising the bound copies using a book scanner, resulting it what it admits were "poor quality" scans. However, following the death of Celeste Dolan, Badeaux also donated her sister's copies, after which the organisation made the decision to disassemble one set in order to scan it at the "highest possible quality". Amid all this, the foundation sourced a number of missing copies from game historian Leonard Herman in order to complete its collection and acquired the intellectual property rights to Computer Entertainer, so the magazine could be made available to everyone for free.
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