Perspectives on the European videogame / edited by Víctor Navarro-Remesal and Óliver Pérez-Latorre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Navarro-Remesal, Víctor, editor.

Pérez Latorre, Óliver, editor.

Series:

Games and play (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Games and play in contemporary culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Europe.

Video games.

Video games industry--Europe.

Video games industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

Summary:

The history of European videogames has been so far 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 prominent videogames in popular culture, such as <i>Grand Theft Auto</i>, <i>Tomb Raider</i> and <i>Alone in the Dark</i> were made in Europe. This book proposes an exploration of European videogames, including both analyses of transnational aspects of European production and close readings of national specificities. It offers a kaleidoscope of European videogame culture, focusing on the analysis of European works and creators but also addressing contextual aspects and placing videogames within a wider sociocultural and philosophical ground. The aim of this collective work is to contribute to the creation of a, so far, almost non-existent yet necessary academic endeavour: a story of the works, authors, styles and cultures of the European videogame.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2021).

ISBN:

1-003-70128-0

90-485-6185-X

90-485-5062-9

9781003701286

OCLC:

1287138119