The RetroTech Archive Project

A green gameboy color rests against a wall.
Seed Grant Semester Awarded
Spring
Seed Grant Award Year
2025

The RetroTech Archive (RTA) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project designed to develop both a physical-digital archive and a research program on retro computing software and technology from the 1980s to early 2000s. Housed in ASU’s TechnoMaterials Lab (TML), the archive will encompass the current collection of over 350 video games, software, hardware, works of interactive media, and retro technologies. The project aims to create and develop an online archive for this collection, support a visiting scholar to study the collection, and facilitate a day-long workshop with faculty and students from the ASU community.

Principal Investigator(s)

Jaime Kirtz | Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Media and Engineering

DB Bauer | Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Katherine Morrissey | Assistant Professor, Department of English