Perspectives on the European Videogame / / ed. by Óliver Pérez-Latorre, Víctor Navarro-Remesal.
The history of European videogames has so far been overshadowed by the global impact of the Japanese and North American industries. However, European game development studios have played a major role in videogame history, and many prominent videogames in popular culture, such as Grand Theft Auto, To...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Games and Play ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I National Stories
- 1. National Games: Spanish Games of the 1980s
- 2. From Le Vampire Fou to Billy la Banlieue : Genre, Influences and Social Commentary in 1980s French Videogames
- 3. Finnish Fuck Games: A Lost Historical Footnote
- 4. Adopting an Orphaned Platform : The Second Life of the Sharp MZ-800 in Czechoslovakia
- 5. Cuthbert Goes Cloning : Ports, Platforms, and the Dragon 32 Microcomputer
- Part II Transnational Approaches
- 6. Masterpiece! Auteurism and European Videogames
- 7. Playing European Comic Books : The Videogame Adaptations of Astérix and Tintin, 1993–1997
- 8. Existential Ludology and Peter Wessel Zapffe
- 9. Europe Simulates Europe : How European Analogue Games Frame their Own Identity
- 10. Naturalist Tendency in European Narrative Games
- Conclusions (for now)
- Index