Game media preservation, where? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 days ago by fullovellas@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Sometimes, a video game enjoyer just wants to be showered in nostalgia.

Sometimes maybe they just want to be more immersed before starting a playthrough of a classic game.

Maybe they obsessively keep a (digital) journal and want to give it a bit more color by including trailers, posters, commercials, you name it.

So I wanted to ask what your go-to sites to get all that good stuff are. Are there any, even?

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[-] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 15 points 5 days ago

https://archive.org/ has old media of all sorts including game magazines, demos trailers and manuals.

a lot of video material has been uploaded to youtube, that was formerly hosted elsewhere. hell i've watched the old eoLithic frag movie from like 2002 a week ago.

vimm's lair is also worth a visit if your are looking for old game manuals.

[-] fullovellas@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah I've sometimes used all those sites at some point, but they're so vast (or have only manuals, like vimm's lair). I was interested in finding something a bit more curated and game-oriented.