Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I The Emergence of the Video Game
6. 1 The Video Game as a Medium 13
7. 2 Super Mario Nation 35
8. II Formal Aspects of the Video Game
9. 3 Space in the Video Game 51
10. 4 Time in the Video Game 77
11. 5 Narrative in the Video Game 93
12. 6 Genre and the Video Game 113
13. III The Video Game in Society and Culture
14. 7 Hot Circuits: Reflections on the 1989 Video Game Exhibition of the American Museum of the Moving Image 137
15. 8 Play It Again, Pac-Man 155
16. 9 Archetypes on Acid Video Games and Culture 169
17. Appendix: Resources for Video Game Research 183
18. Index 193
19. About the Contributors 201