The Field of Archeogaming
The intersection of archaeology and video games—studying digital environments, the physical artifacts of gaming, and interactive media as cultural heritage.
Defining the Discipline
Archeogaming encompasses the study of physical video game artifacts (cartridges, consoles, packaging), the code that powers them, and the digital environments within the games themselves.
Just as we excavate ancient cities to understand past civilizations, we can excavate game code, analyze digital architecture, and study player communities to understand the contemporary digital cultural revolution.
Digital Preservation
Video games act as unique time capsules. The virtual worlds built in the late 20th and early 21st centuries risk being lost to data decay and hardware obsolescence.
We work to archive these interactive experiences, documenting the metadata, preserving ROMs gracefully, and analyzing the built environments of these virtual spaces before they are lost to time.
Featured Archives
Silent Sands 1924
Explore the digital reconstruction of an early 20th-century expedition. A unique case study in narrative archeogaming.
Heritage Warden
Explore the digital reconstruction of an early 20th-century expedition. A unique case study in archeogaming.