A Real History of Video Game Criticism | The 5 Kinds of Writing About Games
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In 1981 , a couple of magazine dedicated to Video Games started their publication, Electronic Games and Computer and Video Games, and since then, writing has proliferated and diverged into different branches and forms. However, if we dig deeper, we realize that this is far from the origin of video game criticism, which has implications for how we talk about games today. Support the Channel https://www.patreon.com/gameoveranalyser Chapters 0:00 A Brief History of Video Game Criticism 0:28 1) Consumer Writing 1:05 2) Criticism 3:14 3) Theory of the Practitioners - Game Design 3:46 4) External Theory 4:15 5) Internal Theory - Ludology, game studies, play theory 5:28 The divide between different forms of writing 8:10 Unifying Critical Writing Sources - Electronic Games Issue 1 https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGames/Electronic%20Games%20Issue%201%20%28Winter%201981%29/ - Computer and Video games Issue 1 https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_001_198
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