Game Over: How We Faked the Atari Excavation and Got Away with It
[NOTE: This post was originally published as an April Fool’s joke on April 1, 2015, and was taken down because a lot of people believed this story to be true. […]
VALUE: Videogames and Archaeology in Leiden UnivErsity
VALUE (Videogames and Archaeology in Leiden UnivErsity) has officially launched as of March 30, 2015. You can follow VALUE on Twitter here and Facebook here. But what is the VALUE […]
Archaeogaming Expedition I: Abandoned Metaverse
I’d been thinking about returning to Second Life for a while, and at the suggestion of fellow Punk Archaeologist Bill Caraher, actually did it (and blogged about it) yesterday. I […]
Keeping Our Games Alive: Video Game Archiving and Preservation
Today’s guest post is by Rebecca Hernandez-Gerber who is a video game archivist. In her writing, she focuses on media archaeology, digital preservation, and gaming history. Follow her on Twitter @ArchivistBecks. […]
Dungeon-Crawling on the Intellivision
My brother bought me an Intellivision Flashback. It was half-price at Sam’s Club. He knew exactly what he was doing, too: fueling my interest in archaeogaming and retrogaming while reminding […]
Archaeogaming at the University of Leiden (Guest Post!)
Introduction Today’s post is by Aris Politopoulos, a veteran gamer and Ph.D student at the University of Leiden. He recently spoke to his friends at Leiden’s Archaeology Forum on the […]
Thoughts from the Owner of E.T. Cartridge #8209
FROM THE EDITOR: A second winning eBay bidder reached out to Archaeogaming to talk about the reasons behind the desire to obtain one of the copies of E.T. excavated from […]
Video Game Numismatics: A Prelude to a Project
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects. While numismatists are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also […]
Exhuming Atari, or Punk Archaeology Levels Up
Here’s a guest post I wrote for the good people of Love Archaeology on their Almost Archaeology blog about the excavation of the Atari Dump Site. Have a read: Exhuming Atari, or Punk Archaeology Levels Up. Andrew Reinhard, Archaeogaming
BREAKING: Atari Burial Ground Excavations and Documentary
Today, March 7, 2014, at 3:00 Eastern (2:00 Austin time), producer Jonathan Chinn, and CEO of fuel Entertainment Mike Burns will be presenting, “Unearthing the Atari Graveyard: The Search for ET” at the South by Southwest Festival, at the Long Center, Dell Hall, 701 W. Riverside Drive. Official Hashtags: #etburial #sxsw Official Twitter for the project: https://twitter.com/ataridigdoc (@ataridigdoc) From the […]
Beta Testing Archaeology in Elder Scrolls Online (taken down)
Folks: I received a takedown notice (my first!) for my recent blog post on the archaeology of Elder Scrolls Online, researched while playing the beta. I thought I’d given appropriate credit, was favorably disposed towards the game, etc., but it appears that the post violated the EULA/TOS for the beta. Lesson learned. I’ve removed the post and deleted the images […]
What is Archaeogaming?
Let me begin at the beginning, a Level 1 n00b, but an archaeology “Master.” I was once a reluctant gamer who was dragged kicking and screaming into World of Warcraft […]
