{"id":102,"date":"2013-10-18T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T05:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-10-18T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T05:25:55","slug":"play-it-again-at-digital-nationz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/2013\/10\/18\/play-it-again-at-digital-nationz\/","title":{"rendered":"Play It Again at Digital Nationz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of September, Melanie Swalwell was an invited speaker at the first <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalnationz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Nationz<\/a> entertainment expo, held at Vector Arena in Auckland.\u00a0 Swalwell, whose historical work on digital games began in New Zealand, spoke about the homegrown games produced in the 1980s, as well as the Play It Again team&#8217;s work to collect and preserve the early computer games from this era. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/files\/2013\/10\/Swalwell-at-Digital-Nationz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-103\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/files\/2013\/10\/Swalwell-at-Digital-Nationz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2013\/10\/Swalwell-at-Digital-Nationz-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2013\/10\/Swalwell-at-Digital-Nationz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2013\/10\/Swalwell-at-Digital-Nationz-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2013\/10\/Swalwell-at-Digital-Nationz-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2013\/10\/Swalwell-at-Digital-Nationz.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pictured here in front of a slide of the wholly New Zealand made &#8220;Malzak&#8221; arcade machine, a highlight of the weekend was the opportunity to see and play &#8220;Malzak&#8221; at the Videogames History Museum set up by collectors Michael Davidson and Mark Barlow (PC World documented this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.co.nz\/slideshow\/527667\/pictures_history_consoles_computers_digital_nationz\/\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 Davidson and Swalwell have co-authored a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/738239\/Game_History_and_the_Case_of_Malzak_Theorising_the_manufacture_of_local_product_in_1980s_New_Zealand\">piece<\/a> on &#8220;Malzak&#8221; (forthcoming in an anthology with Routledge).\u00a0 Equally exciting was the appearance of an electrical engineer who worked on assembling the &#8220;Malzak&#8221; cabinets, in Auckland, in the early 1980s and recalled the details of its construction.<\/p>\n<p>Also significant was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sponsume.com\/project\/new-zealand-computer-museum\">crowd-funding <\/a>initiative Barlow launched to start a Computer Museum in downtown Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of September, Melanie Swalwell was an invited speaker at the first Digital Nationz entertainment expo, held at Vector Arena in Auckland.\u00a0 Swalwell, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}