Archive EntryPreservation Record
Silent Hill 3
Shelf markLIB-0043
Editorial StandingCatalogued · Permanent Record
2003Game
Catalog Information
- Original Title
- サイレントヒル3
- Release
- 2003 (Japan) · 2003 (North America)
- Developer
- Team Silent
- Publisher
- Konami
- Platform
- PlayStation 2
- Region
- NTSC-U/C · North America · SLUS-20622
- Medium
- Pressed optical disc · PlayStation 2 retail edition
- Subjects
- Survival Horror · Silent Hill · Team Silent · Lineage · Preservation
Archival Status
- Custody
- Permanent archive holding
- Reference Copy
- Complete in box: case, pressed disc, manual, and original cover insert
- Condition Report
- Complete in box. Light shelf wear consistent with age. Preserved as a playable reference copy.
- Acquisition
- Private acquisition · August 2026
- Filed
- August 4, 2026
Curator Notes
Silent Hill 3 returns the series to a direct reckoning with the first game’s cult while keeping Team Silent’s PS2 craft — mall corridors, amusement-park dread, and a protagonist whose ordinary life is the wrong kind of inheritance. Konami’s North American disc (SLUS-20622) arrived in August 2003.
The shelf keeps the original retail edition rather than a later budget repress. What matters is the optical object that sat beside Silent Hill 2 in the same generation’s keep-case language.
Together with the PlayStation original and the other numbered Team Silent releases filed here, this copy makes the series readable as a sequence of discs rather than a reputation.
Collection Documentation
Acquired in August 2026 while expanding the PlayStation 2 physical shelf.
The retained copy is the North American PlayStation 2 edition published by Konami (SLUS-20622). It remains complete in box with manual and cover insert, and is kept as the reference copy for this filing.
Dedicated artifact views of the individual copy have not yet been filed; the gallery below is held open for that documentation.
Preservation Notes
- Access Hardware
- Sony PlayStation 2; compatible North American PlayStation hardware
- Original Hardware
- Sony PlayStation 2 · NTSC-U/C
- Playback Compatibility
- Pressed for North American PlayStation 2 consoles. The retained disc remains the primary access copy.
- Preservation Concerns
- Optical-disc aging and surface damage remain the principal risks. The disc is stored upright in its original case under stable, dry conditions; printed materials remain housed with the copy.
- Edition History
- North American PlayStation 2 release published by Konami on August 8, 2003 (SLUS-20622). Japanese and European territories followed the same year. Some North American copies included an official soundtrack disc; packaging variants are noted where present. Later budget reissues used revised packaging; this filing records the original retail edition.
- Access Status
- The original physical edition is out of print and circulates through the secondary market. No current digital edition replaces this North American reference copy.
Connections
- Archival Lineage
- LIB-0030Silent Hill (1999)
- LIB-0044Silent Hill 2 (2001)
- LIB-0043Silent Hill 3 (2003)this filing
- LIB-0042Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004)
- LIB-0040Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2010)
- Series
- Silent Hill
- Editorial Record
- Reserved for future critical writing in Bloodsoaked Media.
Artifact Documentation
Reference photography of the preserved copy held by Bloodsoaked Media. Each view records the edition, materials, and condition of the work in custody.
Space is reserved for official artwork verification, collection photography, scans, and supplementary archival media. Nothing is forced into the record until documentation is filed.
Stewardship History
A permanent chronology of this archival record — filed, revised, and tended over time. Entries accumulate; none are erased.
Collection Documentation entered
Connections established
Silent Hill series recorded.
Curator Notes entered
Filed into the Library
Accessioned as LIB-0043.
Preservation Notes entered
Published to the public shelf