Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment RevolutionThe Edge calls "Trigger Happy" a "seminal piece of work". For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years after the invention of the simplest of games, more videogames are played by adults than children. This revolutionary book is the first-ever academically worthy and deeply engaging critique of one of today's most popular forms of play: videogames are on track to supersede movies as the most innovative form of entertainment in the new century. |
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... film's monopoly on the moving image , the two media have been engaged in a wary standoff . As their powers of graphic realization have increased , videogames have begun superficially to look a bit more like films , while films have ...
... film's monopoly on the moving image , the two media have been engaged in a wary standoff . As their powers of graphic realization have increased , videogames have begun superficially to look a bit more like films , while films have ...
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... film licenses are often a sure winner . Studios generally acquire the videogame rights to a film , such as Bat- man , Rambo , Aliens , or Raiders of the Lost Ark , and then produce a painfully substandard platform game or shoot - ' em ...
... film licenses are often a sure winner . Studios generally acquire the videogame rights to a film , such as Bat- man , Rambo , Aliens , or Raiders of the Lost Ark , and then produce a painfully substandard platform game or shoot - ' em ...
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... films through the late 1980s and 1990s clearly owe a lot in turn to the rise of the videogame beat - ' em - up such as Street Fighter , and in one such film this is explicitly acknowledged . The star of City Hunter , Jackie Chan , is at ...
... films through the late 1980s and 1990s clearly owe a lot in turn to the rise of the videogame beat - ' em - up such as Street Fighter , and in one such film this is explicitly acknowledged . The star of City Hunter , Jackie Chan , is at ...
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