The Pokemon Company hires archivists to maintain a museum dedicated to Pokemon history and builds a repository of materials related to the entire franchise.
“This role will contribute to the establishment and development of the in-house TPCi Company Archive and Museum,” the job listing begins. “This role works with game data librarians on the TCG product team to create large inventories, perform policies, processes, catalogs, storage, and other duties, and keep the company’s first internal archive. Establish and develop from scratch. “
Original list that attracted public attention by Deputy (Opens in a new tab)Has been removed and the message “The job you are looking for is no longer open” is displayed, suggesting that the Pokemon Company has gone deeper into the hiring process.You can still see the full text of the job description above Nintendo Life (Opens in a new tab)..
This list doesn’t go into too much detail about what is kept in the archive, but the “TCG sample” is part of it. Archives include both “digital repositories” and archivists can help “build an internal physical repository with knowledge of archiving standards and best practices.”
Pokemon is bigger than just video games, but organizations like the Video Game History Preservation Society are directing the site to store development and marketing material that tells the story of its development and impact, not just the video game itself. It’s nice to see Pokemon companies starting to maintain their own internal archives, as companies have historically done the poor job of maintaining their own history.
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