Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2022
Authors:	M.J. Clarke
Dimensions:	227 x 160 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	150
ISBN-13:	978-1-79363-603-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Computer games Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Image processing > Computer animation Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Image processing > Video Promotions
LSN:	1-79363-603-6
Barcode:	9781793636034

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