Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Haigh, Thomas

Titel

The Media Snatcher: pc/core/turbo/engine/grafx/16/cdrom2/super/duo/arcade/rx by Carl Therrien (review)

Ist Teil von

• Technology and Culture, 2021, Vol.62 (1), p.325-326

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Project MUSE Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Like many books in the series, this one examines a video game console, or rather the compatible family of late-1980s and early-1990s Japanese machines ordinated in the book's subtitle: "PC/CORE/TURBO ENGINE/GRAFX/16/CDROM2/SUP ER/DUO/ARCADE/RX." Therrien, an associate professor of art history and cinema studies at the University of Montreal, has framed The Media Snatcher as a contribution to video game studies and media theory rather than science and technology studies or history. The PC Engine was one of the first platforms to support CDROM, via a widely used hardware expansion, though Therrien's frequent invocations of other consoles and personal computers calls into question the appropriateness of a platform-centric format for this analysis.