Arcade Academia Episode 1: Preserving Video Game History — An Interview with Preservationists Phil Salvador and Andrew Borman

by Emily Reuben and Daley Wilhelm

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In the inaugural episode of Arcade Academia, hosts Emily Reuben and Daley Wilhelm finally use their journalism backgrounds and M.A.s to do something more than write just another gaming hot take.

Arcade Academia isn’t a gaming news podcast: each episode is an exhaustively researched deep dive into scholarly examinations of video games.

This very first episode concerns the legacy that video games will leave behind. Speaking with Phil Salvador, the library director of the Video Game History Foundation, and Andrew Borman, director of preservation at The Strong National Museum of Play, this episode explores the world of video game preservation and the steps the industry is (and isn’t) taking to protect video game history.

🎧 Credits:

Hosts: Emily Reuben and Daley Wilhelm Guests: Andrew Borman — @borman.bsky.social | museumofplay.orgPhil Salvador — @philsalv.bsky.social | gamehistory.orgMusic: “Magic Escape Room” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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