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Minor platforms in videogame history

Benjamin Nicoll
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press B.V., [2019]
Copyright:
©2019
Related Series:
Games and play; [volume] 2
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Summary:
Videogame history is not just a history of one successful technology replacing the next. It is also a history of platforms and communities that never quite made it; that struggled to make their voices heard; that aggravated against the conventions of the day; and that never enjoyed the commercial success or recognition of their major counterparts. In 'Minor Platforms in Videogame History', Benjamin Nicoll argues that 'minor' game histories are anything but insignificant. Through an analysis of transitional, decolonial, imaginary, residual, and minor videogame platforms, Nicoll seeks out moments of difference and discontinuity in game history. From the domestication of vector graphics in the early years of videogame consoles to the proliferation of videogame piracy in South Korea in the 1980s, this book explores case studies that challenge taken-for-granted approaches to videogames, platforms, and their histories.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Ways of seeing videogame history: The Vectrex as a transitional platform
  • 2. Articulations of videogame piracy: The Zemmix as a decolonial platform
  • 3. Domesticating the arcade: The Neo Geo as an imaginary platform
  • 4. dialectic of obsolescence? The Sega Saturn as a residual platform
  • 5. ̀How history arrives': Twine as a minor platform.
Author/Creator:
Nicoll, Benjamin, (Lecturer in digital media) , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Minor platforms in videogame history [by Nicoll, B.]
Related Series:
Games and play; [volume] 2
Subjects:
Video games — History
Computing platforms — History
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
GV1469.3 .N53 2019eb
ISBNs:
9789048540303 (electronic bk.)
9048540305 (electronic bk.)
9789462988286 [Invalid]
9462988285 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
1119643597
Other Control Numbers:
EBC5894386 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16440712
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