Game History and the Local

lt;p>Melanie Swalwell is Professor of Digital Media Heritage at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She is the author of Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality (2021), and co-editor of Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives (2017) and The Pleasures of Computer Gaming (2008).

1.Introduction: Game history and the local; Melanie Swalwell.- 2.Adventures in Everyday Spaces: Hyperlocal computer games in 1980-1990s Czechoslovakia; Jaroslav Svelch.- 3.'The Last Cassette' and the Local Chronology of 8-bit Video Games in Poland; Maria B. Garda and Pawel Grabarczyk.- 4.Swedish Game Development History: The Founders and the social structure; Ulf Sandqvist.- 5.A Place for a Nintendo? Discourse on locale and players' topobiographical identity in the late 1980s and the early 1990s; Jaakko Suominen, Anna Sivula.- 6.On Footwork: Finding the local in American video game history; Laine Nooney.- 7.Bon Voyage: A global tour of local user groups with the Sorcerer of Exidy; Michael Borthwick and Melanie Swalwell.- 8.Cracking Technocultural Memory: Scenes and stories of origin in the PlayStation Portable forensic imaginary; David Murphy.- 9.Indie Games of No Nation: The transnational indie imaginary and the occlusion of national markers; John Vanderhoef.- 10. Video Games Have Never Been Global: Resituating video game localization history; Stephen Mandiberg.- 11. "Welcoming all gods and embracing all places": Computer games as constitutively transcendent of the local; Graeme Kirkpatrick.- 12.Heterodoxy in Game History: Toward more 'connected histories'; Melanie Swalwell.