• DOI:10.1177/1555412015590048
Corpus ID: 147981978

Bridging the Gap

@article{Nicoll2017BridgingTG,
  title={Bridging the Gap},
  author={B. Nicoll},
  journal={Games and Culture},
  year={2017},
  volume={12},
  pages={200 - 221}
}

B. Nicoll

Published 2017

Sociology

Games and Culture

This article recovers the popular imaginaries surrounding an obsolete video game platform, the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System (AES), through a thematic discourse analysis of British and North American gaming magazines from the 1990s. Released in Japan in 1990, the Neo Geo AES was marketed as a home video game system capable of bridging the gap between the public space of the gaming arcade and the domestic environment of the home. “Imaginaries” in this context refer to the dreams and… CONTINUE READING

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