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Arcade Britannia : a social history of the British amusement arcade /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meades, Alan F. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
Series:Game histories.
Subjects:
Recreation centers > Great Britain > History.
Video arcades > Great Britain > History.
Centres de loisirs > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Salles de jeux d'arcade > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Recreation centers.
Video arcades.
Great Britain.
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The British Arcade vs. the Mythic Arcade
  • From Showmen and Sanddancers to the 1960 Gaming Act
  • Coin-Op Entrepreneurialism
  • Get This Lousy Piece of Legislation Put Right
  • Pings, Pongs, and Pioneers
  • Copyright Defenders and the British Videogame Crash
  • The Invader's Revenge
  • Anti-Groups, Addiction, and the Arcade as Cinema
  • SegaWorld, Street Fighter II, and Exporting Games to Japan
  • Gold Dust, 20p Fruit Machines and Redemption
  • A Historic Accident.