Memory Void: Digital Games Preservation in Portugal
Resumo
Some collective efforts to preserve and disseminate Portuguese digital games are led by retro gaming communities and have contributed to the emergence of other narratives about the history of video games in the last decade in Portugal. In this paper, we present two of these communities, namely Planeta Sinclair and RetroArquivo, and examine how their preservation activity can be a way to promote the recognition of the cultural, historical, and material values of old games. We conclude that digital game preservation is mostly contained in an informal and networked infrastructure, within which archival libraries of these same artifacts are developed.
Palavras-chave:
retro gaming, preservation, communities, Portugal
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De Kosnik, A. (2020). “Piracy is The Future of Culture”. In Third Text, 34 (1), pp. 62-70. DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2019.1663687,
Decker, A., Egert, C., Phelps, A., McDonough, J.P. (2012). “Technical Properties of Play a Technical Analysis of Significant Properties for Video Game Preservation”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Games Innovation Conference, pp. 1-4. DOI: 10.1109/IGIC.2012.6329857,
Eklund, L. (2022). “From Trash to Treasure: Exploring How Video Games Are Moving From Popular Culture to Cultural Heritage”. In Proceedings of the DiGRA 2022 International Conference: Bringing Worlds Together. [link]
Guay-Bélanger, D. (2021). “Assembling Auras: Towards a Methodology For The Preservation and Study of Video Games as Cultural Heritage Artefacts”. In Games and Culture, pp. 1–20. DOI: 10.1177/15554120211020381.
Gouveia, P. (2014). “Uma Narrativa Possível Sobre os Jogos Criados em Portugal nos Últimos Anos: Reflexão a Partir do Livro ‘Videojogos em Portugal: História, Tecnologia e Arte”, de Nelson Zagalo. In Aniki [Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image], vol. 1(2), pp. 369–374. ISSN 2183-1750.
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Lima, L., Pinto, C., Gouveia, P. (2022). “Genesis of a Gaming Culture: A Historical Analysis Based on the Computer Press in Portugal”. Paper presented at the Digital Games Research Association Conference (DiGRA 2022), Kraków, Poland, 7-11 July.
Mochocki, M. (2022). “Editorial: Games with History, Heritage, and Provocation”. In Games and Culture, vol. 17(6), pp. 839–842. DOI: 10.1177/15554120221119268.
Mora-Cantallops, M., Muñoz, E., Santamaría, R., Sánchez-Alonso, S. (2021).“Identifying Communities and Fan Practices in Online Retro Gaming Forums”. In Entertainment Computing, vol. 38. DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2021.100410.
Newman, J. (2012). “Illegal Deposit: Game Preservation And/as Software Piracy”. In Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol. 19 (1), pp. 45-61. DOI: 10.1177/1354856512456790.
Nylund, N., Prax, P., Sotamaa, O. (2020). “Rethinking Game Heritage: Towards Reflexivity in Game Preservation”. In International Journal of Heritage Studies. DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2020.1752772.
Santos Jr., R. L., Nunes, V. M. (2016). “Estudo da Preservação Digital dos Videogames sob o Viés da Arquivologia”. In Informação & Sociedade: Estudos, vol. 26 (3), pp.31-46.
Shaw, A. (2014). Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture. University of Minneapolis Press, Minneapolis.
Swalwell, M. (2012). “The Remembering and the Forgetting of Early Digital Games: From Novelty to Detritus and Back Again”. In Journal of Visual Culture, 6 (2), pp.255–273.
Swalwell, M. (2021). Game History and the Local. Series Palgrave Games in Context, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-030-66421-3.
Stuckey, H., Swalwell, M., Ndalianis, A., De Vries, D. (2015). “Remembering and Exhibiting Games Past: The Popular Memory Archive”. In Special Issue, DiGRA Australia, vol. 2 (1). [link]
Zagalo, N. (2013). Videojogos em Portugal: História, Tecnologia e Arte. FCA Editora, Lisboa. ISBN 978-972-722-765-5.
Publicado
06/11/2023
Como Citar
LIMA, Luciana; MOTA, Ana Teresa.
Memory Void: Digital Games Preservation in Portugal. In: JEDI (JOGOS & EQUIDADE, DIVERSIDADE E INCLUSÃO) - ARTIGOS CURTOS - SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE JOGOS E ENTRETENIMENTO DIGITAL (SBGAMES), 22. , 2023, Rio Grande/RS.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2023
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p. 1403-1409.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbgames_estendido.2023.235624.
