Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels In Three Cities

摘要

(1982) shows, ruminations on the cultural value of videogames stretch back into the 'golden age' of gaming, long before sociology, media studies or cultural studies engaged with the medium in any meaningful way. Since Amis's opulent work, videogames have percolated into popular consciousness not only in the form of Tetris, Pokemon, Lara Croft and Mario, but also in the fiction of Scarlett Thomas (2003), D.B. Weiss (2003) and Douglas Coupland (2006). Running parallel to these novels and bridging the gap between theory and fiction are reflections on the constitution of videogames (Poole, 2000), the history of videogames (Kent, 2001) and the economic and social impact of online worlds (Guest, 2007).