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EditedbyRachel Simone Weiland Zoya StreetEditorialRachel Simone Weilnobadmemories.com@partytimeHXLNTRachel Simone Weil is an experimental videogame developer whose 8-bit NES cartridges playat the borders of fact and fiction.Alternative pasts,speculative futuresIn how many ways might the history of videogames and game cultures as we know them haveplayed out differently? How will video games affectus ten, twenty, or fifty years from now?This special issue of Memory Insufficient focuseson alternative and speculative histories of games.The essays contained herein reimagine gaming’spast or dream of its possible futures. To be frank,the works in this issue can be challenging to read,as they dart between truth, fiction, and blends ofboth.
When curiosity gets the best of you, you may findyourself looking up dates, names, facts, and figuresto discover whether what you’re reading isreal or imagined. But it is good that these works arechallenging. They confuse our idea of video gamehistory as a stable collection of fact. They grant usthe opportunity to acknowledge how much of historyrelies on chance and invite us to play, quiteliterally, with history as we know it. They ask usto consider the anxieties we might face in the nearfuture and what role games might play.It is my hope that these feelingsof confusion and curiosity arecontagious, that they accompanyyour reading of all video gametexts so that you might call eachone into question.Like on FacebookSubscribe by emailrupazero.comMemory Insufficient is published on a CreativeCommons Attribution - Non-commercial -NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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