Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife

by Raiford Guins

Book Overview

A cultural study of video game afterlife, whether as emulation or artifact, in an archival box or at the bottom of a landfill.

We purchase video games to play them, not to save them. What happens to video games when they are out of date, broken, nonfunctional, or obsolete? Should a game be considered an "ex-game" if it exists only as emulation, as an artifact in museum displays, in an archival box, or at the bottom of a landfill? In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262536285
• ISBN13: 9780262536288
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher