This accessible textbook gives students the tools they need to analyze games using
strategies borrowed from textual analysis. As the field of game studies grows, videogame …

Alongside their material dimensions, video game arcades were simultaneously
metaphysical spaces where participants negotiated social and cultural convention, thus …

Perhaps no arcade game is so nostalgically remembered, yet so critically bemoaned, as
Dragon's Lair. A bit of a technological neanderthal, the game implemented a unique …

There is a growing body of English language materials on game history, whether scholarly
overviews and readers (eg Lowood and Guins 2016; Wolf 2007); investigations of specific …

The 1980s marked the arrival of microcomputers in our homes, as well as the advent of
homebrew video game development (Swalwell, 2021). Next to working with the …

Ultima and World-Building in the Computer Role-Playing Game is the first scholarly book to
focus exclusively on the long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing games (RPG) …

This dissertation analyzes the changing meanings surrounding home video game usage
and consumption during the first two decades of their commercial presence in the United …

When reflecting on the production of “The Pump Unit” system in 1967—created before the
famed “Brown Box” that evolved into the Magnavox Odyssey—Ralph Baer recalled struggles …

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1 Page 2 Capa ◆ Expediente ◆ Sumário ◆ Autor Marca de Fantasia Parahyba, 2023 Rodrigo …

Devido às limitações tecnológicas, os jogos digitais iniciaram na indústria com poucos
recursos para contar histórias, manifestando progressivamente tipos distintos de narrativa …