Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both from a historical and contemporary point of view. In treating videogames as sets of circumstances, the book identifies the opportunities for ludic practices that videogame arcades provide in Japan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040029145
• Artikelnr.: 70208757

Autorenporträt

Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of acronyms and abbreviations

Part I - Contextualizing Play in Japanese Amusement Spaces

1. Introduction: Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades as a Culturally Situated Practice

2. Balls, Medals, and the Other: Techno-Orientalism in Videogame Arcades and the Early Amusement Spaces in Japan (1903-1978)

3. Policing and Centralization: Game Centre Spaces from the Shinfueih Reform to the Interconnected Arcade (1976-2016)

4. Software, Hardware, and Space: Theoretical Aspects of Public Gaming

Part II - Case Studies of Play and Space in Japanese Game Centres

5. Player-flâneurs and Extended Spatiality: Play Between Performance and Observation in A-cho

6. Old Surfaces, New Interfaces: Palimpsest and Territorialization in Tsujish ten

7. Media Mixes and the National Network: Compartmentalizing Play in Sega Ikebukuro GIGO

8. Conclusion: Game Centres and Videogame Arcade Play as a Rupture of the Quotidian

Index