Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife

摘要

In a time when computer games have matured as an industry and a medium, game history often becomes the object of retro fetishism. Game history and game preservation is full of enthusiasts, and for old gamers and computer nostalgics (such as myself), reading Raiford Guins' book Game After may trigger a flood of emotions. Yet Guins argues that we should resist this nostalgia. Instead, he makes a strong argument for demanding the same levels of rigorous scholarship for game history as for other historical fields.