A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games
Author | : Bitmap Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
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ISBN | : 9781838019143 |
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Author | : Bitmap Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
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ISBN | : 9781838019143 |
Author | : Rachael Hutchinson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-04-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1793643555 |
Japanese Role-playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant formal elements as well as narrative themes, character construction, and player involvement. Contributors from Japan, Europe, North America, and Australia employ a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze popular game series and individual titles, introducing an English-speaking audience to Japanese video game scholarship while also extending postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text. In a three-pronged approach, the collection uses these analyses to look at genre, representation, and liminality, engaging with a multitude of concepts including stereotypes, intersectionality, and the political and social effects of JRPGs on players and industry conventions. Broadly, this collection considers JRPGs as networked systems, including evolved iterations of MMORPGs and card collecting “social games” for mobile devices. Scholars of media studies, game studies, Asian studies, and Japanese culture will find this book particularly useful.
Author | : Felipe Pepe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2019-09 |
Genre | : Computer games |
ISBN | : 9781999353308 |
Reviews over 400 seminal games from 1975 to 2015. Each entry shares articles on the genre, mod suggestions and hints on how to run the games on modern hardware.
Author | : Mark C. MacKinnon |
Publisher | : Guelph, Ont. : Guardians of Order |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fantasy games |
ISBN | : 9780968243114 |
Welcome to the ultimate English-language guide for one of the most popular Japanese anime shows of all times! Sailor Moon is a hit with boys and girls of all ages, and is watched on Cartoon Network's popular "Toonami" programming block every day by over one million viewers. This book offers a comprehensive Sailor Moon resource and reference section, including episode summaries, character bios, and series analysis in a clear and easy to read format.
Author | : Kurt Kalata |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 178352765X |
Japan has produced thousands of intriguing video games. But not all of them were released outside of the country, especially not in the 1980s and 90s. While a few of these titles have since been documented by the English-speaking video game community, a huge proportion of this output is unknown beyond Japan (and even, in some cases, within it). Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Japanese Video Game Obscurities seeks to catalogue many of these titles – games that are weird, compelling, cool or historically important. The selections represent a large number of genres – platformers, shoot-em-ups, role-playing games, adventure games – across nearly four decades of gaming on arcade, computer and console platforms. Featuring the work of giants like Nintendo, Sega, Namco and Konami alongside that of long-forgotten developers and publishers, even those well versed in Japanese gaming culture are bound to learn something new.
Author | : Tim Nicholls |
Publisher | : Bitmap Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Computer games |
ISBN | : 9780993012976 |
Gamers who cut their teeth in the arcades will love this trip down memory lane. Artcade is a unique collection of coin-op cabinet marquees, some dating back 40 years to the dawn of video gaming. Originally acquired by Tim Nicholls from a Hollywood props company, this archive of marquees - many of which had suffered damage over time - have now been scanned and digitally restored to their former glory. The full collection of classic arcade cabinet artwork is presented here for the first time in this stunning landscape hardback book, and accompanied by interviews with artists Larry Day and the late Python Anghelo. Relive your mis-spent youth with artwork from dozens of coin-ops including Asteroid, Battlezone, Street Fighter II, Out Run, Moon Patrol, Gyruss, Q*Bert, Bubble Bobble and many more. Each marquee takes up a full double-page spread in the book, and is faithfully recreated using beautiful lithographic printing on the highest quality paper. Tim has spent over a thousand hours assembling the high-resolution scans, restoring the images in Photoshop and color-correcting them back to their vibrant, as-new appearance. The results of all that hard work are now available as a lasting record of the amazing artwork that adorned the arcades during the golden era of coin-op video gaming.
Author | : Gerald A. Voorhees |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1441141081 |
Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is a collection of scholarly essays that seeks to represent the far-reaching scope and implications of digital role-playing games as both cultural and academic artifacts. As a genre, digital role playing games have undergone constant and radical revision, pushing not only multiple boundaries of game development, but also the playing strategies and experiences of players. Divided into three distinct sections, this premiere volume captures the distinctiveness of different game types, the forms of play they engender and their social and cultural implications. Contributors examine a range of games, from classics like Final Fantasy to blockbusters like World of Warcraft to obscure genre bending titles like Lux Pain. Working from a broad range of disciplines such as ecocritism, rhetoric, performance, gender, and communication, these essays yield insights that enrich the field of game studies and further illuminate the cultural, psychological and philosophical implications of a society that increasingly produces, plays and discourses about role playing games.
Author | : Rey Esteban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2021-05-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Presented by The Video Game Museum, The NES Endings Compendium presents the endings of Nintendo Entertainment System games from 1985 and 1988. Revisit the memories of completing games like Super Mario Bros., Contra. Castlevania, Blaster Master, Bionic Commando, and many others, all presented in a nostalgic style patterned after 1980s video game magazines!
Author | : Mark T. Arsenault |
Publisher | : Gold Rush Entertainment Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2003-06-01 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9781890305581 |
The Sengoku: Character Sheets book contains 41 illustrated and revised, two-sided character sheets, plus 11 additional blank (un-illustrated) character sheets. Features 41 illustrations of popular character profession templates -- samurai, bushi, priests, mystics, shinobi and more!