[ThrowawayR2]

What other archives or museums are there for video games that are accepting donations of physical game media? There are probably a lot of HN readers with old games in the attic that are bound for the landfill once they get around to it.

[DonHopkins]

The Video Game History Foundation is the real deal.

https://gamehistory.org/

Their Library Director Phil Salvador is a serious historian, who extensively researched, interviewed people, and wrote a comprehensive deep dive into the history of Maxis's serious games division, Maxis Business Simulations, John Hiles, and SimRefinery.

It was such an widely read, well received investigation, that it led to the recovery of SimRefinery when a reader discovered an old floppy disk of it that had been sitting in a drawer for decades!

https://archive.org/details/sim-refinery

https://gamehistory.org/library-director-phil-salvador/

https://gamehistory.org/ep-11-simrefinery-simulated-by-a-ref...

https://obscuritory.com/

https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6Cqn5rTfs

[SteveMoody73]

Not a museum or archive as such but in the UK there is this https://www.rmcretro.com/

Has a large collection of old systems and games, magazines and anything else they can get hold of. It's also open to visitors.

[voidspark]

> Not a museum

That is two museums. It's in the title: "Hands-On Vintage Technology Museums" and mentioned all over the front page.

[GauntletWizard]

https://oldbytes.space/@bloopmuseum

[tronster]

We'll miss it, now that it's moved from Baltimore to a larger space in Pittsburg. I have donated to it, and hope it continues on well past my lifetime.

[GauntletWizard]

I've been to the new space, and it's gonna be great - though there's a lot of work ahead in moving.

[failrate]

https://www.themade.org/

[ThrowawayR2]

> "To donate items to the MADE, bring your donation to the front desk during open hours."

Quite a long trip for many. That seems to signify that they're not a large enough organization to be an archive.

[ForOldHack]

So sorry, I am just a block away right now. I should go and take a photo. It's a great place. They have a Vetrix vector game computer, but they said it was ... Delicate... And I said and probably irreplaceable.

[dtech]

I know of one in my small country, I thus assume there's many especially in the US

[deaddodo]

Embracer Games is Swedish, not American.

[ForOldHack]

Try sending it to www.themade.org or email [e-mail]. they have like 17,000 or more, and 50,000 items.