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No longer just for kids and hardcore geeks, video games have grown in sophistication and popularity with each passing year, and their cultural reach is expanding too--spawning blockbuster movies, university courses and degree programs, international conferences, magazines, and even a recent awards show on Spike TV. In GAMERS, editor Shanna Compton and twenty-three contributors talk about what gaming means to them and discuss the intersections between video games and visual art, film, fiction, even life itself in two dozen essays that cover an animated mix of topics from the esoteric to the purely entertaining. In the process, they offer not only witty, widescreen views of how video games have become part of the cultural landscape, but also insight into where they may be headed next.
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Novelist Salman Rushdie once remarked to "eXistenZ" director David Cronenberg, that while he didn't consider current video games to have attained the status of art quite yet, we should "[n]ever say never. Somebody could turn up who would be a genius. But if one thinks about noncomputer games, there are many which people say have the beauty of an art form. People say that about cricket, people say it about every game."
Never say never. The writers, poets, programmers, visual artists, cartoonists, game testers, and championship gamers who have contributed to this anthology aren't ready to. Video games have provided each of us with reasons to love them, whether as nostalgic links to childhood, imaginative escapes from the workaday world, competitive challenges to be met and conquered, or as vibrant steps toward a promising new art form. From the creation of "Spacewar!" in 1962, through the golden age of the video game arcade in America, to the console-in-every household proliferation today, games have provided us with something books, music, the plastic arts, and even film have not. We get to act as well as react. We get to play.
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Space Invaders, Vice City, Play Mode, Todd Rogers, Game Mode, Twin Galaxies, New York, Lunar Lander, Dark Castle, Green Room, Space Wars, Donkey Kong, Walter Day, Big Buck Hunter, Boston Bob, Century Fox, John Madden, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Silent Hill, Star Wars, Ultraman Taro, Dance Dance Revolution, Moon Patrol, Prince of Persia New!
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Stark words flashed across the network's broadcast channel, like that annual decree going out from Caesar Augustus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fake football, smart fan, green text, wrestling fans Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Space Invaders, Vice City, Play Mode, Todd Rogers, Game Mode, Twin Galaxies, New York, Lunar Lander, Dark Castle, Green Room, Space Wars, Donkey Kong, Walter Day, Big Buck Hunter, Boston Bob, Century Fox, John Madden, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Silent Hill, Star Wars, Ultraman Taro, Dance Dance Revolution, Moon Patrol, Prince of Persia New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Primitive Art by Franz Boas on page 83, and page 85
- Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) by Jean Baudrillard on page 199
- Ugly Duckling by Checkerboard Press in Back Matter
- Double Venus (Salt Modern Poets) by Aaron McCollough in Back Matter
- Dreaming by the Book by Elaine Scarry on page 199
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