#game conservation

Game companies have lobbied against conservation, saying that they do enough conservation by working publicly. This has since been disproven. Game companies do NOT do enough to conserve their games.

For many games, the only option is pirating. Game history experts say that if people didn't break or at least bend the law (whether as a consumer or while working on a game themselves) we wouldn't even have 13% of classic games (any game made before 2010).

For other games, the only option is finding it on a disk, though this is less likely. Many e-game store fronts (like the Xbox 360 store) will close, taking the only version we have of (some) those games with it. The Xbox 360 store will be shutting down July 2024.

The Wii U & Nintendo 3DS stores have recently closed. Ubisoft is determined to keep their costumers on subscriptions and when the games stop being worked on, they will shut down entirely. This includes both multiplayer AND singleplayer games.

You can help game conservation by going to StopKillingGames .com

HELLO. IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE ORIGINAL SOURCE FOR THIS GAME ART FOR A WHILE NOW. im convinced that this is for the 1986 Legend of Zelda, because the red book/magic book, is called a Bible in the Japanese version, and the game sprite has a cross on it. It could also be art from the NES release of A Link To The Past, where the Book of Mudora is green, but, Link does cross himself after reading it? Pretty certain this is from Zelda 1 though.

reverse image searching (in my searches so far anyway) only bring up the Pinterest link that I originally saved it from about a year ago, and clicking on it gives me an error message that redirects me on web or refreshes the app.

The style and texture of the scan remind me of a higher res version of the original game manual for The Legend of Zelda 1984 :

Buuut, the colors remind me more of the art from the Zelda 2: Adventure of Link Manual:

if anyone does video game history or conservation, or just happens to have a game Manual lying around, have any of you seen this image? Is it from a game magazine or just a really convincing fake game art joke?

even if I don’t ever find the source of the Bible picture, I kinda also want to share these cute official arts as well!