TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guins,Raiford
TI  - Game after: a cultural study of video game afterlife 
SN  - 9780262019989 (hbk.) :
U1  - 794.8 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Video games
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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 What happens to video games when they are out of date, broken, nonfunctional, or obsolete?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? Here, Raiford Guins focuses on video games not as hermetically sealed within time capsules of the past but on their material remains: how and where video games persist in the present
ER  -