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Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity

Af: MJ Clarke Engelsk Hardback

Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity

Af: MJ Clarke Engelsk Hardback
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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.

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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.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 150
ISBN-13: 9781793636034
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1793636036
Kategori: Medievidenskab
Udg. Dato: 21 jun 2022
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 160mm
Højde: 227mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 21 jun 2022
Forfatter(e): MJ Clarke
Forfatter(e) MJ Clarke


Kategori Medievidenskab


ISBN-13 9781793636034


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 150


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 160mm


Højde 227mm


Udg. Dato 21 jun 2022


Oplagsdato 21 jun 2022


Forlag Lexington Books

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