MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Incredible Technologies (and more) auction retrospective

Congrats to everyone involved and my thanks too.

>This isn't strictly a MAME thing, nor even a Dumping Union thing, but it's involved several
>DU members, so I think it's worth mentioning now that everything is done and dusted.

It's more of a 25 percent: emulation /Dumping /donations / documentation of the long life of one's work of contributions over the years [a long-time software developer, Chris Oberth,]

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This is one of the first cases I'm aware of where multiple disparate preservation organizations all worked together for a common goal. Were it not for the signal boosts from Frank and Jason, and were it not for the Gaming Alexandria folks and Video Game History Foundation folks agreeing to let some of us on the Dumping Union take point on the bidding, the prices would have likely been astronomical due to multiple people - all with the same goal - vying to make the acquisition. The fact that we were all able to work together to achieve this goal cannot be underscored enough, and in my opinion it rings in a new era of cooperation among preservation organizations.

I'd like to give thanks for everyone on Twitter who helped make this happen - from folks who chipped in $20, to folks who chipped in $200 and more. Each contribution has been noted, and each person will be credited if and when any prototype builds on these source discs are added to MAME.

Last but not least, in the spirit of being fully transparent, I do have to say that it will be some months yet before anything is released. The Gaming Alexandria folks are far more equipped to do deep dives into source discs than any one MAME dev, and so we've agreed that they are entitled to the lead time necessary to author blog entries for each of these acquisitions. At the end of the day, what matters is that these discs have been secured for preservation, and in the long run, there's a good chance that the Gaming Alexandria articles will cast some additional eyes toward MAME and the Dumping Union.
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In case one of the Incredible Technologies games has its own unique hardware and is set as its own source file, maybe some game videography game list of all the games (coinop and non-coinop) he did as a tribute within the MAME source code as well?

Anyway.....I too, am glad this group effort project will help document the commercial products that made it or never made it to market from the works of one creator.