Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon

The goal of the book, then, is to provide an explication of key concepts in game history that furthers our historical understanding of games to move beyond "the blindly celebratory" or the "merely descriptive" to a more analytical phase (p. xiii). [...]smartly, it broadens the approach, allowing the authors of each entry to move away from purely chronological evolution of the terms when needed to provide both connections beyond game studies as well as moments...