Assembling Auras: Towards a Methodology for the Preservation and Study of Video Games as Cultural Heritage Artefacts

By Dany Guay-Bélanger

Université de Montréal

Video games, while a digital art, live on physical media. Whether cartridge, magnetic tape or floppy disk, they degrade. Without care and study, they disappear and cannot be played again. While it might be possible to preserve play using emulation…

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Version 1.0 - published on 13 Jun 2022 doi: 10.25547/SWXA-BA59 - cite this

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