Highlighting the tensions between official and vernacular versions of gaming history, the essay goes on to suggest a rhetorical theory of nostalgia is needed to explain the ways in which retrogamers have negotiated their identity within and against the context facilitated by the gaming industry. After explaining the relevance of public memory scholarship for studying gaming culture in general, the essay provides a study of the discursive practices found within contemporary retrogaming culture. It argues that recent arguments about this history function to reshape the identities of retrogamers and retrogaming communities. This essay explores the success of retrogaming to show how new public memories about gaming history are being rhetorically constructed. Public Memory and Gamer Identity: Retrogaming as Nostalgia
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