The SVGA - a playable console game archive

a playable console game archive

University of The West of Scotland video games archive

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John Sutherland replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Directional meeting'

Yep. It's been a torrid time this semester for the academics getting used to the new WIzards, Trolls and Orcs which increasingly control large areas of the game space. However, rearmed (with a big bunch of ££ for new labs!) and reinvigorated by se...

on Wednesday

Kenny Montgomery replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Directional meeting'

i can do mondays and wednesdays, usually end up kicking about paisley between classes anyway.

on Tuesday

Karen replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Directional meeting'

I will and can just try my best to come at anytime :)

October 13

Peter Bloomfield replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Directional meeting'

I've got a fairly unpredictable schedule, but I can hopefully be flexible. I can usually do Mondays or Thursday mornings anyway.

October 8

Durandal updated their profile

October 4

Durandal is now a member of The SVGA

Welcome Them!

October 4

Scott Roberts added a discussion

Directional meeting

I think we need to try and arrange another meeting in the near future to try to get things moving again and see what direction we are heading in now. I'm available Monday and Wednesday all day and on Thusday mornings, if you want to attend can yo...

October 4

Scott Roberts added a photo to the album 'fc-twin-system'

fc-twin-system

October 4

Sean Winston and matthew joined The SVGA

September 23

Kenny Montgomery added a discussion

Wish lists

After going through my old consoles i got to thinking about the ones i really wanted but haven't been able to find (or afford). So i have decided to put these down as a list of things to look out for. For games we should be thinking of things that...

September 19

Kenny Montgomery commented on Kenny Montgomery's photo 'Nintendo Famicom'

Yeah i sometimes get a bit addicted to ebay

September 19

Kenny Montgomery commented on Kenny Montgomery's photo 'Atrari 2600 JNR'

i have programming books that came with the spectrum and Yaroze

September 19

Kenny Montgomery commented on Kenny Montgomery's photo 'Sega Master System II'

I know this work because i used to play double dragon on it not too long ago, until it came out on live.

September 19

Kenny Montgomery commented on Kenny Montgomery's photo 'Gramdstand 4000'

Yes but in glorious colour!

September 19

Kenny Montgomery commented on Kenny Montgomery's photo 'ZX Spectrum +2'

I have a few boxes of tapes to sort through and see what runs on what or even if 25 year old tapes still work!

September 19

Kenny Montgomery commented on Kenny Montgomery's photo 'Sega Nomad'

This takes Genesis games which are pretty common on ebay, i have street fighter 2 for it it works but takes 6 AA batteries !

September 19

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August 9, 2010 to August 13, 2010 – Edinburgh Interactive Festival

What meeting time would suit you best? Please post here thank you.

15/6/09 .Plan up on forum. Comments welcome
14/5/09 .Plan up on forum. Comments welcome

The SVGA (Scottish Video Games Archive).

The SVGA is the initiative of staff and students of the University of the West of Scotland (Paisley Campus). The general idea of the archive is to have a repository of games and hardware; to back up, store and preserve classic, successful or exceptional original games which otherwise might be at risk of being lost or forgotten with time. This will also enable both gaming and non-gaming students to learn from these games by exploring such ideas such as, why they were so successful, what made everyone love a game or even hate it, what made a particular game fail and whether people’s wants, interests and expectations from games has changed over the years and continues to do so. The answers to these questions can be explored with the aid of the SVGA.

We are very enthusiastic about this initiative. At the moment it is still in fledgling status, and we are currently in the process of screening donations as well as more general administration organisation. However, we are highly motivated and determined to make the SVGA a success.

Feel free to have a look around the site, get some more information and also check out our sister site - svga.org.uk

Thank You and Enjoy

Karen Mitchell

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Directional meeting 4 Replies

I think we need to try and arrange another meeting in the near future to try to get things moving again and see what direction we are heading in now. I'm available Monday and Wednesday all day and...

Tagged: Archive, Meeting

Started by Scott Roberts. Last reply by John Sutherland Nov 18.

Wish lists

Started by Kenny Montgomery Sep 19.

Source code of Atari games released 2 Replies

Here's a useful link I ran across today: http://www.programmerfish.com/source-code- Atari have released the source code to a whole bunch of old games. As far as I know, there isn't a distinction b...

Started by Peter Bloomfield. Last reply by Peter Bloomfield Sep 1.

Outcome of meeting 15/6/09 3 Replies

The meeting went well these are the main points that we agreed upon or have decided to work on accomplishing to move us forward: Steering Committee: We need a group of people to ensure we are movi...

Tagged: Meeting, Plan, Archive

Started by Scott Roberts. Last reply by John Sutherland Aug 30.

flakey IPR 3 Replies

I have a bunch of BBC Micro games, but they are on floppy disks. No obvious packaging or IPR to say we bought them. Did they come off magazines? I reckon it is OK to post these to the archive, in t...

Tagged: IPR

Started by John Sutherland. Last reply by Peter Bloomfield Jul 23.