The game canon committee includes Henry Lowood, game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky, Matteo Bittanti, and Joystiq journalist Christopher Grant.
The game canon project was started by Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University.
He started to preserve video games and video-game artifacts in 1998, and in the years following, he has noted that video games are something worthy of preserving.
In September 2012, the Library of Congress had already 3,000 games from many platforms and also around 1,500 strategy guides.
[2] The initial list consists of 10 video games that are each considered representing the beginning of a genre that is still vital in the video game industry.