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Play it again: PC Games Challenge Chamber
We Want Your High Scores What was your high score? How did you share it with the world? Showcasing gaming achievement was important for many game fans. Home computer fans had no public leader boards...
View ArticleOrphaned work: Susan Corbett asks “Is the law an ass?”
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View ArticlePlay it again: Abandonware
On the Popular Memory Archive this week guest Thomas Huthwaite discusses the concept of “abandonware” – titles that are ‘out of print’ or ‘no longer commercially available’. Titles that are...
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Play it again: What Institutions are collecting
Popular Memory Archive news This month on the Popular Memory Archive they are thinking about the different aspects of game history which are being collected by different institutions. Shane Farrow...
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Play it again: November on the Popular Memory Archive
On the Popular Memory Archive, Alison Gazzard, a Lecturer at the Institute of Education in London, is sharing some of her research on tie-ins between British and Australian games history over the next...
View ArticleLaunch of the Play it Again – Popular Memory Archive
Launch of the Play it Again – Popular Memory Archive. Please visit and share your memories of playing your way through the history of games. Digital games make up a significant but little known chapter...
View ArticlePlay it again: What do Dragon, White Dwarf and The General have in common?
None of them were just about computer games But Run5 was… Do you remember “Dragon” magazine and “White Dwarf”? Maybe you were hardcore enough to have read Avalon Hill’s “The General”! Do you remember...
View ArticlePlay it again: Local Scenes and Themes on both sides of the Tasman
Digital games make up a significant but little known chapter in the history of the moving image in Australia and New Zealand. The Popular Memory Archive site aims to exhibit some of the significant...
View ArticlePlay it again: Microcomputers in the 1980s
Last year Play it again: the Popular Memory Archive was launched as a joint effort by a number of universities to collect and record Australian and New Zealand computer and computer games history,...
View ArticlePlay it again: John Passfield, Australian game developer
This month is home coders month on the Popular Memory Archive. That means we’re discussing the games that ordinary people wrote themselves, at home, during the 1980s. This week, the now professional...
View ArticlePlay it again: home coder Matthew Hall
Home coder Matthew Hall recalls coding his first games… Finishing up their month focusing on home coders, this week Matthew Hall of KlickTock reflects on his early days writing games in rural Victoria...
View ArticlePlay it again: The Hobbit game co-created by Veronika Megler
“I don’t remember when I first started getting fan emails about The Hobbit game and began to realize the impact it had on so many people’s lives.” Veronika Megler, co-creator of The Hobbit game. Over...
View ArticlePlay it again explores Help columns in the 1980s
HELP! Help columns were a regular feature of computer magazines in the 1980s Help columns were a regular feature of computer magazine in the 1980s. As Adventure games were perhaps the most challenging...
View ArticlePlay it again: Microcomputers in the 1980s
Last year Play it again: the Popular Memory Archive was launched as a joint effort by a number of universities to collect and record Australian ... The post Play it again: Microcomputers in the 1980s...
View ArticlePlay it again: John Passfield, Australian game developer
This month is home coders month on the Popular Memory Archive. That means we’re discussing the games that ordinary people wrote themselves, at home, during ... The post Play it again: John Passfield,...
View ArticlePlay it again: home coder Matthew Hall
Home coder Matthew Hall recalls coding his first games… Finishing up their month focusing on home coders, this week Matthew Hall of KlickTock reflects on his early ... The post Play it again: home...
View ArticlePlay it again: The Hobbit game co-created by Veronika Megler
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View ArticlePlay it again explores Help columns in the 1980s
HELP! Help columns were a regular feature of computer magazines in the 1980s Help columns were a regular feature of computer magazine in the 1980s. ... The post Play it again explores Help columns in...
View ArticlePlay it again: PC Games Challenge Chamber
We Want Your High Scores What was your high score? How did you share it with the world? Showcasing gaming achievement was important for many ... The post Play it again: PC Games Challenge Chamber...
View ArticleOrphaned work: Susan Corbett asks “Is the law an ass?”
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