Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both from a historical and contemporary point of view. In treating videogames as sets of circumstances, the book identifies the opportunities for ludic practices that videogame arcades provide in Japan.

Autorentext

Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Inhalt

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of acronyms and abbreviations

Part I - Contextualizing Play in Japanese Amusement Spaces

1. Introduction: Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades as a Culturally Situated Practice

2. Balls, Medals, and the Other: Techno-Orientalism in Videogame Arcades and the Early Amusement Spaces in Japan (1903-1978)

3. Policing and Centralization: Game Centre Spaces from the Shinfeih Reform to the Interconnected Arcade (1976-2016)

4. Software, Hardware, and Space: Theoretical Aspects of Public Gaming

Part II Case Studies of Play and Space in Japanese Game Centres

5. Player-flâneurs and Extended Spatiality: Play Between Performance and Observation in A-cho

6. Old Surfaces, New Interfaces: Palimpsest and Territorialization in Tsujishten

7. Media Mixes and the National Network: Compartmentalizing Play in Sega Ikebukuro GIGO

8. Conclusion: Game Centres and Videogame Arcade Play as a Rupture of the Quotidian

Index