Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity - 9781793636034

Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of InteractivityAuthor(s): MJ Clarke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781793636034, 978-1793636034\nSynopsis\nPerhaps no arcade game is so nostalgically remembered, yet so critically bemoaned, as Dragons Lair. A bit of a technological neanderthal, the game implemented a unique combination of videogame components and home video replay, garnering great popular media and user attention in a moment of contracted economic returns and popularity for the videogame arcade business. But subsequently, writers and critics have cast the game aside as a cautionary tale of bad game design. In Dragons Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity, MJ Clarke revives Dragons Lair as a fascinating textual experiment interlaced with powerful industrial strategies, institutional discourse, and textual desires around key notions of interactivity and fantasy. Constructing a multifaceted historical study of the.