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Welcome, for Spring 2002 the LCI research team, Eric Overholt and Jeff Kent, are investigating subcultures surrounding computer gaming. Growing up in a post-Atari age, we have been following and participating in videogame culture. We are the first generation to have grown up in a time when videogames were already in existence. This magazine represents a unique opportunity for undergraduates to explore the deeper implications of gaming, proving to our parents that videogames have not rotted our brains and that buying us a Nintendo has helped the two of us in school.
The subcultures we explore spring up as a result of the modularity of the digital age. The nature of digital code allows videogames that once existed in a console to be placed into a new framework of the PC. Similarly, the modularity of digital age also allows for game modifications, bootlegging and cheating for contemporary videogames.

Eric’s project is about the subcultures that have sprung up around the new digital video game age. These cultures include cracks, modidifications, and cheats for video games. Some of these subcultures, like cracking, are illegal and run detrimental to corporate capitalism. Other subcultures like modifications are embraced by corporate society, while cheats exist in a gray area between acceptable and deviant.

Jeff’s research is about the world of videogame emulation with a focus on pre 64-bit console systems. Emulation allows entire libraries of games and their respective systems to be played on personal computers for no cost. In doing this project, issues of collecting, archiving, legality, and how emulation changes a game’s context have been explored.

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