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Playing to Win - Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play (Hardcover): Thomas P. Oates, Robert Alan Brookey

Playing to Win - Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play (Hardcover)

Thomas P. Oates, Robert Alan Brookey; Contributions by Andrew Baerg, Meredith M Bagley, Michael L. Butterworth, Perri Campbell, Steven Conway, Cory Hillman, Luke Howie, David J Leonard

Series: Digital Game Studies

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In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of Atari's Pong in the 1970s, which provoked a flood of sport simulation games that have had an impact on every sector of the electronic game market. From golf to football, basketball to step aerobics, electronic sports games are as familiar in the American household as the televised sporting events they simulate. This book explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports culture merge.

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Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Digital Game Studies
Release date: 2015
First published: November 2014
Editors: Thomas P. Oates • Robert Alan Brookey
Contributors: Andrew Baerg • Meredith M Bagley • Michael L. Butterworth • Perri Campbell • Steven Conway • Cory Hillman • Luke Howie • David J Leonard
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-01499-3
Categories: Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Computer games
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure
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LSN: 0-253-01499-9
Barcode: 9780253014993

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