Atari to Zelda : Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (269 pages)
- The MIT Press Series .
- The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Playing with Cosmopolitanism -- 2 Unintended Travel -- 3 Playing Japan's Games -- 4 Much Ado about JRPGs -- 5 Localization -- 6 The Japanese Console Game Industry -- 7 A Game's Building Blocks -- 8 Conclusions -- Notes -- Index.
The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West, from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of "Japaneseness.".
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Video games--Japan. Video games--Social aspects--Japan. Video games industry--Japan.