Category: Guest Posts
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Why Conserving Videogame Heritage is (almost) Impossible II: Why is it Sticky?
Álvaro Vázquez Guisado is Conservator-Restorer of Cultural Heritage from Seville University. A brilliant follow-up to his previous research on the practicalities of preserving physical videogame material. Álvaro discusses the challenges faced by all preservation practitioners – the common and natural degradation of predominantly-plastic materials.
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Why Conserving Videogame Heritage is (almost) Impossible: Materials and Storage Conditions
Álvaro Vázquez Guisado is Conservator-Restorer of Cultural Heritage from Seville University. As we all know, videogames, consoles, and all their related media, are objects of a growing cultural interest, being the cause of one of the biggest cultural revolutions of recent history. Videogames, consoles, peripherals, etc., all have in common the fact that they contain…
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Collecting the Guildford Games Sector – Sarah Fairhurst
Sarah Fairhurst is the Collections Manager at the Guildford Heritage Service. When I started as Collections Manager for the Guildford Heritage Service just over 18 months ago, I had no idea that Guildford was home to such a famous videogame sector. Guildford to me was the centre of rural Surrey life, surrounded by rolling hills…