The early days of Finnish game culture: Game - related discourse in Micropost and Floppy Magazine in the mid-1980s

Cogent Arts & Humanities

Niklas Nylund¹ 

[1] University of Tampere;

关键词: computer games;    game culture;    game history;    finland;    game discourse;    domestication;    fanzine;    disk magazine;    video games in the 1980s;   

DOI  :  10.1080/23311983.2016.1191124

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In the early 1980s, digital games played at home were an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. In this article, I examine the ways computer fanzines and disk magazines from the 1980s write about games and game culture, and how they contribute to the process of digital game domestication. My sources offer insight on contemporary views on multimodal games, the qualities of good games, and the different ways game making and game playing are intertwined. It is in these fanzines and disk magazines that the cultural meaning of digital games played at home is dealt with for the first time, and they provide an unique view into a complex world in which the meanings of computers, coding, games, and gaming are constantly negotiated.

【 授权许可】

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