Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity Hardback
by MJ CLARKE
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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:150 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:15/06/2022
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- ISBN:9781793636034
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:150 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:15/06/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781793636034
