Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Titel Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
SECTION I: Historicizing Game Fandom......Page 28
2 Early Games Production, Gamer Subjectivation and the Containment of the Ludic Imagination......Page 30
3 Transitioning to the Digital: Run5 Magazine as Archive and Account of SSG’s Dialogue with Wargamers in the 1980s......Page 49
4 Keeping the Spectrum Alive: Platform Fandom in a Time of Transition......Page 68
5 Pirates, Platforms and Players: Theorising Post-Consumer Fan Histories through the Sega Dreamcast......Page 86
SECTION II: Fan contributions to Game History......Page 102
6 EVE Online’s War correspondents: Player Journalism as History......Page 104
7 NES Homebrew and the Margins of the Retro-gaming Industry......Page 122
8 Museums of Failure: Fans as Curators of “Bad”, Unreleased, and “Flopped” Videogames......Page 139
9 World –1: Glitching, Codemining and Procedural Level Creation in Super Mario Bros......Page 157
SECTION III: The Archive......Page 174
10 Repacking My Library......Page 176
11 Sega Saturn Fan Sites and the Vernacular Curation of Videogame History......Page 191
12 Unusable Archives: Everyday Play and the Everyplay Archives......Page 208
13 Moving on from the Original Experience: Philosophies of Preservation and Dis/play in Game History......Page 224
List of Contributors......Page 246
Index......Page 250