Perspectives on the European Videogame

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Edited by Víctor Navarro-Remesal, Óliver Pérez-Latorre

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: December 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9789048550623
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048550623

Subjects:: Humanities, General
Series:: Games and Play

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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 Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Alone in the Dark 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.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Table of Contents
pp 5-6

Prologue - Conflict, Negotiation, Appropriation, and Diversity: The Challenge of European Game Studies
pp 7-14

Introduction - Euro Ludens: On the Origins, Playing Region, and Imaginaries of the European Videogame
pp 15-36

Part I - National Stories
pp 37-38

1 - National Games: Spanish Games of the 1980s
pp 39-58

2 - From Le Vampire Fou to Billy la Banlieue : Genre, Influences and Social Commentary in 1980s French Videogames
pp 59-74

3 - Finnish Fuck Games: A Lost Historical Footnote
pp 75-90

4 - Adopting an Orphaned Platform : The Second Life of the Sharp MZ-800 in Czechoslovakia
pp 91-110

5 - Cuthbert Goes Cloning : Ports, Platforms, and the Dragon 32 Microcomputer
pp 111-128

Part II - Transnational Approaches
pp 129-130

6 - Masterpiece! Auteurism and European Videogames
pp 131-150

7 - Playing European Comic Books : The Videogame Adaptations of Astérix and Tintin, 1993–1997
pp 151-174

8 - Existential Ludology and Peter Wessel Zapffe
pp 175-192

9 - Europe Simulates Europe : How European Analogue Games Frame their Own Identity
pp 193-208

10 - Naturalist Tendency in European Narrative Games
pp 209-226

Conclusions (for now) - European Videogames, Europeanness in Videogames
pp 227-232

Index
pp 233-235

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