7. Playing European Comic Books : The Videogame Adaptations of Astérix and Tintin, 1993–1997

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Prologue 7
4. Introduction 15
5. Part I National Stories
6. 1. National Games: Spanish Games of the 1980s 39
7. 2. From Le Vampire Fou to Billy la Banlieue : Genre, Influences and Social Commentary in 1980s French Videogames 59
8. 3. Finnish Fuck Games: A Lost Historical Footnote 75
9. 4. Adopting an Orphaned Platform : The Second Life of the Sharp MZ-800 in Czechoslovakia 91
10. 5. Cuthbert Goes Cloning : Ports, Platforms, and the Dragon 32 Microcomputer 111
11. Part II Transnational Approaches
12. 6. Masterpiece! Auteurism and European Videogames 131
13. 7. Playing European Comic Books : The Videogame Adaptations of Astérix and Tintin, 1993–1997 151
14. 8. Existential Ludology and Peter Wessel Zapffe 175
15. 9. Europe Simulates Europe : How European Analogue Games Frame their Own Identity 193
16. 10. Naturalist Tendency in European Narrative Games 209
17. Conclusions (for now) 227
18. Index 233