Thanks to Andrea Mariucci we had an opportunity to visit the central office and main archive of the Game Preservation Society (GPS), where we were introduced to the society’s work by its founder and president, Joseph Redon. The GPS is a nonprofit organization that aims to archive, digitize and catalog the rich history of games created in Japan, prioritizing the preservation of the currently rapidly disappearing slice of this story from the eighties. Their expertise in hardware restoration and emulation along with their capabilities of near-forensic recovery of data from even mold-damaged old floppy discs and other media coupled with their commitment to exhaustively detailed cataloging and careful archiving practices position them as a premier source of ground truth for anyone conducting research on video games produced in Japan from this era. The GPS Game Catalog is available to browse online with their individual entries linked to MADB and also available in RDF format.
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