GAMING THE IRON CURTAIN. HOW TEENAGERS AND AMATEURS IN COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA CLAIMED THE MEDIUM OF COMPUTER GAMES

• Authors: Buček Silvester
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Gaming the Iron Curtain resonates in the era of postcolonial perspectives on culture histories. Even though the book does not mention it explicitly, the insight into the tactics of the first Czechoslovak players (and everything surrounding them) is in many ways exemplary work with the potential to shake the hegemonic view of the history of digital games.

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Acta Ludologica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 81-83
• Physical description: Media and Communication, Game studies, Theory of digital games
• Document type: Review

Contributors

author

Buček Silvester

• Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Arts