WAD stands for “Where’s All the Data?” a WAD file is a collection of individual sounds, sprites, level information, NPC (non-playable character) behavior, and other often customizable game data. I want to look at a very precise kind of texture, the human-readable comments that appear in the code in one of the two WAD files that comprise JFK Reloaded‘s game assets. But it is also a historical artifact itself.In other words, the game emerges out of a specific time and place, textured by the touch of countless hands. The game is indeed part of a documentary tradition, or to be more precise, an engagement with documentary evidence and historical archives, as. ![]() JFK Reloaded doesn’t ask us to play history so much as to reimagine history.Today I want to double back on my and these other videogame scholars’ interpretations of JFK Reloaded. For my own part, I argued that the game’s greatest strength was not as a documentary videogame, but as an engine of counterfactual historical thinking. ![]() Even though the Kennedy family called the game “despicable,” many scholars argued that JFK Reloaded was a legitimate engagement with history (see Raessens, 2006 Bogost, 2007 Fullerton, 2008 and Bogost et al., 2010).
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