Game Histories

The series focus is on outlining a critical historical study of games by commissioning works from scholars and professionals whose interests in game history are astute and serious, theoretically multidisciplinary, exhibit acute attention to historiography and historical methodologies, and whose wide-ranging subject matter is exhaustively researched. You can read more about this series here: https://www.gamehistoriesbookseries.org/

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Gaming the Iron Curtain

How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games

by Jaroslav Švelch

ISBN: 9780262549288

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression.

Zones of Control

Perspectives on Wargaming

Edited by Pat Harrigan and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Foreword by James F. Dunnigan

ISBN: 9780262547925

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 9, 2023

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.

Arcade Britannia

A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade

by Alan Meades

ISBN: 9780262544702

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 25, 2022

The story of the British amusement arcade from the 1800s to the present.

The Elusive Shift

How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity

by Jon Peterson

ISBN: 9780262544900

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 29, 2022

How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre.

Game Wizards

The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons

by Jon Peterson

ISBN: 9780262542951

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 12, 2021

The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators.

Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

by Melanie Swalwell

ISBN: 9780262044776

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 17, 2021

The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users.