"Play it again" - History of gaming and computing in NZ/AUS
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:55 pm
I just got a response from an email I sent Melanie Swalwell regarding her academic research into historical gaming in Australasia. She asked me if I could get the word out (and I'm sure some of you here would be able to assist) regarding their "Play it again" initiative to compile a database of 80's gaming history in Australia and New Zealand. I've quoted the website's goal here...
The links here if you're interested:
http://playitagainproject.org/
Seems that there's a few meetings that go on in Aussie surrounding this whole topic. The flinders university blog has a few more posts on this whole project...
http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/play-it-again/
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 aims to exhibit some of the significant local games of the 1980s era, and collect documentation from the public in order to remember early games through popular memory.
The links here if you're interested:
http://playitagainproject.org/
Seems that there's a few meetings that go on in Aussie surrounding this whole topic. The flinders university blog has a few more posts on this whole project...
http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/play-it-again/