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Smithsonian American Art Museum has a video games section now

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16-03-2012 1:56pm

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17373879

...video games have attained such a unique place in popular culture that the Smithsonian American Art Museum believes they deserve recognition. On 16 March, it opens the The Art of Video Games, the first major exhibition to feature work from the industry.

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#2 16-03-2012 2:01pm
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Finally, a good reason for me to visit America.

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#3 16-03-2012 2:20pm
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The smithsonian videogame preservation project is a complete joke. They only archived games that were voted on in a public vote meaning only the most popular games have been archived. Also because of US copyright law all the games have to be stored on their original medai meaning that all the games that are on Disks are left to bit rot in the archives because no back ups can be made. It's a complete joke.

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