HT Gold (2008) is an interactive Commodore 64 program for 2 persons, made by Glenn Again and Goto80. It is a reappropriation of the hockey game Hat Trick (1987). The machine code of the game has been analysed and tampered with, randomly but spaciously introducing events that alter the steering, graphics, physics, sound and destroys the goal counter. It is no longer a competitive game, but a less defined kind of play in an environment that gradually decays to show some sort of ‘message of the medium’. The decay is conditioned by pre-determined code and chance, aswell as user interaction. HT Gold is not about arbitrary glitch-debunking or retro-kitsch, it is a playable noise remix that celebrates the inherent aesthetics of the machine that are usually suppressed by the engineer perfectionism of digital culture.

It is difficult to remediate properly through new technology such a beamers, emulators and digital video formats. They often loose pixel quality and the C64′s frame-rate is too fast for new millenium consumer media. HT Gold has been shown at re:new and Mikrogalleriet in Copenhagen, HAIP Festival in Ljubljana and A Maze in Berlin.

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