Game history and the local. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Melanie Swalwell.
• Editors: Swalwell, Melanie, 1972-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Game history and the local; Melanie Swalwell.- 2. Adventures in Everyday Spaces: Hyperlocal computer games in 1980-1990s Czechoslovakia; Jaroslav Švelch.- 3. 'The Last Cassette' and the Local Chronology of 8-bit Video Games in Poland; Maria B. Garda and Paweł Grabarczyk.- 4. Swedish Game Development History: The Founders and the social structure; Ulf Sandqvist.- 5. A Place for a Nintendo? Discourse on locale and players' topobiographical identity in the late 1980s and the early 1990s; Jaakko Suominen, Anna Sivula.- 6. On Footwork: Finding the local in American video game history; Laine Nooney.- 7. Bon Voyage: A global tour of local user groups with the Sorcerer of Exidy; Michael Borthwick and Melanie Swalwell.- 8. Cracking Technocultural Memory: Scenes and stories of origin in the PlayStation Portable forensic imaginary; David Murphy.- 9. Indie Games of No Nation: The transnational indie imaginary and the occlusion of national markers; John Vanderhoef.- 10. Video Games Have Never Been Global: Resituating video game localization history; Stephen Mandiberg.- 11. 'Welcoming all gods and embracing all places': Computer games as constitutively transcendent of the local; Graeme Kirkpatrick.- 12. Heterodoxy in Game History: Toward more 'connected histories'; Melanie Swalwell.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 794.809; Computer games -- History; Video games -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030664220
• Related ISBNs: 9783030664213
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