I have been championing the idea of a video game library for some time at forums and to podcasts and so far I have either been ignored(podcasts)or mocked(gamers at forums). I know you guys have a deep love for retro so I hope maybe you guys(or the drunkengamers guys who also appreciate retro) can appreciate what I feel to be the importance of this issue.

I have read about a few small game libraries that have popped up including 1 that is at a major university and the lady running it isnt even a gamer. In the article about her library I read she was quoted saying something along the lines of "most of the history of a subject is lost in its earliest years". I think this is dead on, it does not matter if it is the history of a a culture/people or if its the culture of a medium such as film or now video games.

Video games have already had a large impact on humanity and I think as time goes on it will have a much bigger one. Every year that goes by we see not only the packaging and less important gaming related items disappear but more importantly the game themselves disappear. Developers are doing a piss poor job at backing up their data and holding on to it, and as I am sure you can imagine the code for games back from the Atari is dissapearing at a rapid rate since developers are either dead from that era or do not see the importance of keeping the code/data.

What I am calling for and what this young librarian is calling for is not so much a library in the typical sense where you would come and check out video games, but instead a library that preserves the history of video games by storing the data/code of old games and other video game memorabilia.

I think an idea like this could not only be used to preserve the history of gaming though but make companies some money. Look at how games are going digital now faster then ever and how people talk that in the future all games will be digitally distributed. Now think about whats going to happan when those games stop selling. Do you think Sony is going to want to host Burn Zombie Burn on Playstation Network 20 years from now? Probably not and that means Sony is going to have to put some money out, either to keep hosting an increasingly large back log of old games, or in lawsuits from gamers who are pissed they no longer have acese to content they paid for. Instead of facing this future they could work with the video game library by giving it its own section on the Playstation network where it links to the VGL data base where all these old games would be stored.

So ya, sorry for a long message and sorry that my grammar is/was probably god awful. I really do feel this is an important subject though. We have a rare chance to preserve the history of our medium not only for future generations to enjoy and learn from but also so we do not lose access to our fav games. Sadly it seems not many others are being so far sighted about this. What do you guys think? Is a video game library a brilliant idea and something that must be done to preserve current and future retro goodness...or am I truly just insane?

what do each of you guys eat on your pizza. (dyson may be excused from the question since all his pizzas come in roll form) i wanna be able to order a Chad or Colette pizza and get my pizza places to call them thusly.

@DeadMovieStar- I <3 U :3 cats are acceptable as well since Tigers are a rare breed :(

Just an FYI I'm throwing your way: Colette you did a preview on a little DS title called "Treasure World" and I found it on shelves a couple days ago, and I'm absolutely hooked now! The best way I can describe it is Mario Paint's music editor on some kind of crack/steroid hybrid. There are -THOUSANDS- of items that produce various sounds, and the way you find them is just by carrying around your DS and finding Wi-Fi signals. I've even gone so far as to purchase a car charger so I can haul it with me around town without worrying about it dying on me and missing out on any signal. I've brought it with me on outings the past 2 days and have found over 1000 signals already.

If a dolphin, a chocobo, a slurpee, a puppy, a shark and a tiger were all in dire need of help which order would you help save them in and why? :D

Also, what are some of your most favorite games that are just absolutely obscure and you think not many others would know about them?

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RetroforceGO! - The boardgame! What would it be like?

Would you prefer a monopoly theme with the streets replaced with slurpees, dolphins and retrogames. Or a "game of life" style board with each adavancement in life you gather achievements in gaming. Or a Settlers of Catan setup with you trading ET cartridges and sheep to build your own Destructoid robot (or the Ikaruga).

"You have landed on my 'Puzzle. Puzzle? Puzzle!'. That will be $500"

Now that all that is out of the way, how do you like your video game pop culture references?

Personally, that one is one of my favorites as it makes fun of Twilight.

On a related note, If you could go back in time to stop Stephanie Meyer from writing that garbage, would you do it knowing that the result of doing so would be the return of the Macarena?

Hey there RetroforceGO! crew! So, what's your top 5 pieces of videogame music of all time? Also, the game with the best soundtrack.

Are you scared about reaching 100 episodes?

Does this website (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dolphin_punch) make Chad cry?

The world is destroyed (in any way you see fit). All that's left is you and one videogame character. Who would you choose to repopulate the world with?

Oh, just thought of the perfect question, and even though I think this has been asked before, I'll ask it anyway:

PANCAKES. What do you like on them?

Question for y'all crazy peeps:
Is there a feature in games that don't necessarily add the the gameplay directly, but piss you off when the game doesn't have them.
For example when your extra lives read something like "1up x 00" and you get another life.

Also @ Topher: I played through metal slug 3 and had no problems getting to the end, sorry dude I guess you could check this, but you have probably already tried it.

If I lived in New Jersey, would I be able to convince my Mother to come score some hookers with me?

Also, if I did get said hookers, what do you think we could do?

I can't find any thing about it right now, but I just remembered about a commercial I saw the other day. It had several old ladies getting punched in the face. It made me think of Chad, of course, but did anyone else see it? I don't remember what it was for, sad?

If someone finds, put a link to the page.

@Deadmoviestar and Aiya

You forgot this one!

What question does would the Retroforce crew like to ask each other.

This one's for everyone:

On your naughty games show, you never mentioned the Chad Concelmo narrated RPG, Bonerquest. The game features Vagina Knights.



Also


Chad Concelmo's ten second voice clip is used at least ten thousand times in the game.

Can you all do your best impression of a boy hugging his blob? and if you had a blob what would his/her/its (do blobs have genders?) name be?

Hey, I had another question that I was really wondering about from last time Plz??:

What do you think about modern videogame institutions using retro images? Like Spike's VGAs (Space Invaders), GameStop's trade-in ads (generic platformer), and at least one of GameFly's in-ad images? Do you find them tributes or condescending?

THANKS! <3

What do you guys like better: cupcakes or muffins?

Hello RFGO crew. This is just an obligatory newbish post about being a long time listener, first time commenter. You guys are like the dysfunctional family I never knew I always wanted.

Also evidence that some WiiWare people are in the movie industry:


http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2194248448/tt0906788

What are your favorite sandwiches and what is your favorite place to get a sandwich?


Also, I have a music recommendation for you all (but especially Topher and Chad). The cd is called The Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem, and More! It contains 27 of the best Muppets' songs sung by the Muppets themselves. Its absolutely brilliant.

I doubt anyone will read this, given the many questions and pics before this...

I have a brother and sister that are around 14 years younger than me. They have played my old NES, SNES and N64 games, though now they have moved on to the Wii and DS for the most part. Do you think that they will eventually consider current games to be "retro", or will the 8/16-bit era still be the definitive "retro" era (just like Elvis and the Beatles are still considered the peak of popular music, despite that many of us weren't even born when they were popular)?

I'll be doing a c-blog about this topic...eventually.

Is telling kids today that "Games were so much more difficult when I was your age," the gamer equivilant of "HEY, YOU DAMN KIDS! GET OFF MY LAWN!"? On an unrelated note, I taught myself to play the opera scene from FF6. Am I cool enough to join Club Retroforce? Finally, would it be possible to get Chad to do the Ken Kutaragi "RIIIIDGE RACER!" in the style of Rip Taylor?