| Summary: | The questions of preserving gameplay and the personal experiences of players still elude historians and game scholars. While video recording of gameplay sessions for preservation purposes is an established method, oral history is underutilized in the fields of video game history and preservation. Indeed, this practice is fertile ground for providing additional traces and perspectives necessary to a better understanding of the medium. Moreover, existing projects making use of oral history almost always focus on the game industry and its creators, as well as video game canons. By also focusing on players and other actors in the field, it will be possible to both contribute to the maturation of the disciplines of video game history and preservation and to preserve the medium’s history and video game culture.
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