Dear colleagues and list members, This is a question that has kept me busy for quite some time, yet I am afraid I might have missed some crucial bit of information, and this is why I would like to address it to you. Are there any preservation institutions (archives, museums etc., apart from The Strong Museum / National Museum of Play in Rochester/NY) that host either company archives of computer game companies or personal papers of people involved in the production and marketing of home computer games in the 1980s and early 1990s? As I already mentioned on this list back in February, I am doing a post-doc research project on the transnational history of (non-commercial, low scale) home computer games piracy before the mass availability of the Internet, and, of course, the perspective of the back-then games industry is crucial in this question. Of course, the industry back then was extremely volatile - when companies went bankrupt, the last thing they thought about was preserving their archives (in the case of Psygnosis, for example, as far as I know everything was simply dumped). And those very few 1980s companies which are still active are very seclusive about their archives (which is sort-of understandable, given the retromania of today and their possible hopes of reviving/porting old titles). Nevertheless, the papers of Broderbund, Sierra On-Line, and a couple of other companies luckily ended up at The Strong - and to my knowledge, this is the only public institution that hosts materials like these. But maybe I missed some essential info? Are there any other holdings I am not aware of, particularly concerning the European games industry? I would be very thankful for any hints (as well as for contacts to former game studio and/or publisher/distributor folks who still might have kept their business papers). Best wishes, Gleb -- Dr. Gleb J. Albert Historisches Seminar, Universität Zürich Forschergruppe "Medien und Mimesis" Universität Zürich Historisches Seminar Culmannstr. 1 CH-8006 Zürich Switzerland Tel. +41-446346187 <http://uzh.academia.edu/GlebJAlbert> <http://www.fg-mimesis.de> Review editor: H-Soz-Kult, review team "History of Knowledge" - <http://www.hsozkult.de>