Video Games Around the World

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20032310
AutoresAhmad Ahmadi (0000-0003-1067-6146), Toru Iwatani, Alejandro Iparraguirre, Alexander Fedorov (0000-0001-5501-3149), Alexis Blanchet, Andreas Lange (0000-0003-3871-1986), Anthony Y H Fung, Arturo Nakasone, Beatriz Helen Rolón Domínguez, Benjamin Wai-ming Ng (0000-0003-4778-6269), Christel van Grinsven, Daniel Golding (0000-0003-3687-5485), David Javet, Deborah Mellamphy, Dominic Arsenault (0000-0002-8119-3523), Enrico Gandolfi (0000-0002-8918-1033), Erdal Yilmaz, Frans Mäyrä (0000-0002-6283-417X), Global Game Designers Guild, Gonzalo Frasca, Graciela Alicia Esnaola, Guillermo Averbuj, Herbert Rosenstingl, Hikmat Darmawan, Humberto Cervera, Inaya Rahkmani, Jacinto Quesnel, Jennifer deWinter, Joost Raessens (0000-0002-0666-3118), Konstantin Mitgutsch, Kursat Cagiltay, Lars Konzack (0000-0001-5231-8764), Louis-Martin Guay, Lynn Rosalina Gama Alves (0000-0003-3688-3506), Manuel Garín (0000-0001-9596-8257), María Luján Oulton, Matthieu Pellet, Melanie Swalwell (0000-0002-1873-3478), Michael Liebe, Nelson Zagalo (0000-0002-5478-0650), P Konrad Budziszewski, Patrik Vacek, Peichi Chung (0000-0003-1848-814X), Radwan Kasmiya, Sara Xueting Liao, Songsri Soranastaporn, Souvik Mukherjee (0000-0002-5491-1040), Tamás Beregi (0009-0005-3826-1032), Tom Apperley, Tristan Donovan, Víctor Manuel Martínez, Wesley Kirinya, Çetin Tüker (0000-0002-5621-4804)
EditoresMark J P Wolf (0000-0003-1608-5814)
Año2015
Páginas720
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaVideo Games Around the World (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/9780262527163.001.0001
OpenAlexW2283888138
Open LibraryOL28232252M
ISBN9780262527163
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas35

Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents. Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and culture across every continent, with essays covering areas as disparate and far-flung as Argentina and Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia, Iran and Ireland. Most of the essays are written by natives of the countries they discuss, many of them game designers and founders of game companies, offering distinctively firsthand perspectives. Some of these national histories appear for the first time in English, and some for the first time in any language. Readers will learn, for example, about the rapid growth of mobile games in Africa; how a meat-packing company held the rights to import the Atari VCS 2600 into Mexico; and how the Indonesian MMORPG Nusantara Online reflects that country's cultural history and folklore. Every country or region's unique conditions provide the context that shapes its national industry; for example, the long history of computer science in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, the problems of piracy in China, the PC Bangs of South Korea, or the Dutch industry's emphasis on serious games. As these essays demonstrate, local innovation and diversification thrive alongside productions and corporations with global aspirations. Africa • Arab World • Argentina • Australia • Austria • Brazil • Canada • China • Colombia • Czech Republic • Finland • France • Germany • Hong Kong • Hungary • India • Indonesia • Iran • Ireland • Italy • Japan • Mexico • The Netherlands • New Zealand • Peru • Poland • Portugal • Russia • Scandinavia • Singapore • South Korea • Spain • Switzerland • Thailand • Turkey • United Kingdom • United States of America • Uruguay • Venezuela

Business · China · Context (archaeology) · Diversification (marketing strategy) · Economics · Economy · Geography · Indonesian · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Video game · Digital Games and Media · Law · Marketing · Cross-cultural studies · Video games