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Atari to Zelda : Japan's video games in global contexts / Mia Consalvo.

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"In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting games to play. But since then, fans, media, and the games industry have thought further about the "Japaneseness" of particular games...

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Main Author: Consalvo, Mia, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, ©2016.
Subjects:
Video games > Japan.
Video games > Social aspects > Japan.
Video games industry > Japan.
Video games.
Video games industry.
Video games > Social aspects.
Japan.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The floating world travels west
  • Playing with cosmopolitanism: Japanese videogames and North American players
  • Unintended travel: ROM hackers and fan translations of Japanese videogames
  • Playing Japan's games
  • Much ado about JRPGs: Square Enix and corporate creation of videogames
  • Localization: making the strange familiar
  • The Japanese console game industry: Capcom and Level-5
  • A game's building blocks: western developers and Japanese games
  • Conclusions.

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