Category: Interviews

The Game Boy’s Second Life: A Conversation with Retro Modding’s Olivier

The Residual Media Depot team recently had the pleasure of visiting Montreal-based Retro Modding. With Olivier, the founder and owner, we discussed entry into the modding scene, the political economy of hardware modding, and the nuts and bolts of video game modification and preservation.

Alex Custodio / February 27, 2019

The Residual Media Depot (RMD) is a project of the Media History Research Centre in the Milieux Institute at Concordia University, under the direction of Darren Wershler, the Concordia University Research Chair in Media & Contemporary Literature.

The RMD is a sister organization of the Media Archaeology Lab of the University of Colorado At Boulder and The Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research group (AMT) at the University of Southhampton.