The Intertextual Arcade: Tracing Histories of Arcade Clones in 1980s Britain.

The videogame arcade has created franchises of iconic, recognizable characters and game mechanics from their inception during the 1970s and beyond. Whereas some videogame arcades were deliberately ported by companies to home gaming consoles, in Britain a microcomputing culture emerged in the 1980s f...

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Published in:	Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 3 - 4
Main Author:	Gazzard, Alison
Format:	Article
Published:	Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 2014
Subjects:	Amusement arcades Video games Video game characters Video game consoles Pac-Man (Game)
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