Research Catalog

Title

Fans and videogames : histories, fandom, archives / edited by Melanie Swalwell, Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Swalwell, Melanie, 1972-
• Stuckey, Helen
• Ndalianis, Angela, 1960-

Description

x, 242 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge advances in game studies ; 9

Uniform Title

Routledge advances in game studies ; 9.

Subjects

• Video games > History
• Video gamers
• Video games > Design

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Early games production, gamer subjectivation and the containment of the ludic imagination / Graeme Kirkpatrick -- Transitioning to the digital : Run5 magazine as archive and account of SSG's dialogue with wargamers in the 1980s / Helen Stuckey -- Keeping the spectrum alive : platform fandom in a time of transition / Jaroslav Svelch -- Pirates, platforms, and players : theorizing post-consumer fan histories through the Sega Dreamcast / Skot Deeming and David Murphy -- EVE online's war correspondents : player journalism as history / Nick Webber -- NES homebrew and the margins of the retrogaming industry -- John vanderhoef -- Museums of failure : fans as curators of "bad", unreleased, and "flopped" videogames / Victor Navarro-Remesal -- Glitching, codemining and procedural level creation in Super Mario Bros. / James Newman -- Repacking my library / Jennifer deWinter and Carly Kocurek -- Sega Saturn fan sites and the vernacular curation of videogame history / Benjamin Nicoll -- Unusable archives : everyday play and the everyplay archives / James Manning -- Moving on from the original experience : philosophies of preservation and dis/play in game history / Melanie Swalwell.

Call Number

JFE 17-5858

ISBN

• 9781138679672
• 1138679674
• 9781315563480 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016056846

OCLC

YBP 2016056846

Title

Fans and videogames : histories, fandom, archives / edited by Melanie Swalwell, Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge advances in game studies ; 9

Routledge advances in game studies ; 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Swalwell, Melanie, 1972- editor.

Stuckey, Helen, editor.

Ndalianis, Angela, 1960- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-5858