Welcome to the Popular Memory Archive blog!

[ By Melanie Swalwell on September 26, 2013 | Filed under: Blog ]
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Welcome to our blog.  A part of the Play It Again project, this is a space where we’ll be hosting monthly blog discussions on themes related to 1980s games, game history in Australia and New Zealand, preservation, cultural heritage, intellectual property, and more besides.  Guests bloggers will be drawn from the ranks of game designers, collectors, journalists, preservationists, and the Play It Again team.

We hope you’ll join us and contribute!

Blogging will begin in earnest in November 2013.  While the schedule may change and we will be responsive to what comes up, here’s an outline of what we are planning over the next year or so:

Nov-13  Pioneers: Beginnings of industry; dreams & ambitions; constraints, etc

Dec-13  What’s distinct about the local scenes? Local themes.

Feb-14  Legal considerations

Mar-14  Home Coders

Apr-14  Building communities: fandom then and now

May-14  Games for the classroom

Jun-14  Conference guests: the Born Digital & Cultural Heritage

Jul-14  DIY culture of home computing – Tool kits – make it yourself

Aug-14  Collectors: the joy of the find; concern with history, archivists

Sep-14  Technical challenges – dumping, emulating, etc

Oct-14  Flinders & VUW technical work

Nov-14  Remembering and preservation – what can be learnt?

Do join us.  There are RSS feeds, social media options, and a newsletter you can sign up for to get reminders of upcoming discussions.