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Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life

Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life

Kohler, Chris
Yoshida, Shuhei

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ISBN10: 0486801497
ISBN13: 9780486801490
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Oct 21 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Chris Kohler brings the passionate intensity of a hardcore fan to his writing, but he also has the background knowledge and the critical facilities to explore video games as an industry, as a medium, and as a cultural phenomenon. -- Wired

Why are Japanese video games a worldwide sensation? This enjoyable and informative survey explores the reasons, starting with how Japanese developers raised the medium to an art form. The book also traces the ways in which the developers' ideas infused popular culture beyond the gaming world.

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