The Popular Memory Archive: Collecting and exhibiting player culture from the 1980s

Helen Stuckey; Melanie Swalwell; Angela Ndalianis

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41650-7_20

The Popular Memory Archive: Collecting and exhibiting player culture from the 1980s

Helen Stuckey, Melanie Swalwell, Angela Ndalianis

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Abstract

Memories of playing games with computers have an important role in terms of documenting people’s personal relationships with computing history. This paper presents and discusses the Popular Memory Archive (PMA), an online portal of the “Play It Again” game history and preservation project, which addresses 1980s games, produced in Australia and New Zealand. As well as providing a way to disseminate some of the team’s research, the PMA taps into what is, effectively, a collective public archive by providing a technique for collecting information, resources and memories from the public about 1980s computer games. The PMA is designed to work with online retro gamer communities and fans, and this paper reflects on the PMA as a method for collecting and displaying the memories of those who lived and played their way through this period.

Original language	English
Pages	215-225
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41650-7_20
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	IFIPWG 9.7 International Conference, HC 2013 - Duration: 17 Jun 2013 → …

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Conference	IFIPWG 9.7 International Conference, HC 2013
Period	17/06/13 → …

Keywords

Computing history
Digital preservation
Fan cultures
Games history
Museum 2.0
Online communities
Videogames

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