Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity (eBook)

MJ Clarke (Autor)

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2022
150 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3604-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Perhaps no arcade game is so nostalgically remembered, yet so critically bemoaned, as Dragon's Lair. A bit of a technological neanderthal, the game implemented a unique combination of videogame components and home video replay, garnering great popular media and user attention in a moment of contracted economic returns and popularity for the videogame arcade business. But subsequently, writers and critics have cast the game aside as a cautionary tale of bad game design. In Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity, MJ Clarke revives Dragon's Lair as a fascinating textual experiment interlaced with powerful industrial strategies, institutional discourse, and textual desires around key notions of interactivity and fantasy. Constructing a multifaceted historical study of the game that considers its design, its makers, its recording medium, and its in-game imagery, Clarke suggests that the more appropriate metaphor for Dragon's Lair is not that of a neanderthal, but a socio-technical network, infusing and advancing debates about the production and consumption of new screen technologies. Far from being the gaming failure posited by evolutionary-minded lay critics, Clarke argues, Dragon's Lair offers a fascinating provisional solution to still-unsettled questions about screen media.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 26 Illustrations including: - 26 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Film- / Video-Bearbeitung
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Animation • Arcade Games • fantasy games • Game Design • interactive games • Interactivity • Sword and Sorcery • videodiscs • video game history • Video game studies
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-3604-4 / 1793636044
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-3604-1 / 9781793636041