In the introduction video, Salvador talks about looking through his files and stumbles with the existence of Pretzel Peteto Early 3D Driving/3D Platform Remember. Despite its extreme darkness, the game is mentioned in catalog E3 of 1999 and an old number of Gamer PC, which are now commemorated forever in VGHF digital files.
Obtaining this type of dark information in a digitalized and easy way to search was “much more difficult than it seems,” said Salvador. Beyond obtaining scannings with archive quality of the magazines themselves (a process helped by community efforts as Retromags and File out of printing), Extracting the text of these pages was difficult for OCR software designed for the world of high -text white text documents. “If you have ever read a 90’s video game magazine, you know how crazy those magazine designs are put,” Salvador said.
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The VGHF chief librarian, Phil Salvador, talks about the launch of the digital library.
To avoid this problem, Salvador said that VGHF technology director, Travis Brown, spent months developing a specially designed text recognition tool that “even manages the most difficult magazine pages without problems” and represents “a significant jump in quality about what we had before. 81 separate mentions of Clu Clu Land From dozen different problems with a single search.
Unfortunately, the vast wealth of video game information offered here does not include direct access and playable to retail video games, which Libraries cannot share digitally Due to the limitations of the DMCA. But the VGHF and other organizations “Continue challenging those copyright rules Every three years, “leaving some hopes that digital libraries such as this soon include access to the source material that is being discussed.