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Dominic Arsenault Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware
- Title
- Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware
- Subtitle
- The Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- ISBN-10
- 0262036568
- EAN
- 9780262036566
- ISBN
- 9780262036566
- Genre
- Computing & Internet
- Release Date
- 01/09/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Series
- Platform Studies
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Subject Area
- Multimedia
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Subject
- Computer Science
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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How the Super Nintendo Entertainment System embodied Nintendo's resistance to innovation and took the company from industry leadership to the margins of videogaming.This is a book about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that is not celebratory or self-congratulatory. Most other accounts declare the Super NES the undisputed victor of the 16-bit console wars of 1989-1995. In this book, Dominic Arsenault reminds us that although the SNES was a strong platform filled with high-quality games, it was also the product of a short-sighted corporate vision focused on maintaining Nintendo's market share and business model. This led the firm to fall from a dominant position during its golden age (dubbed by Arsenault the ReNESsance ) with the NES to the margins of the industry with the Nintendo 64 and GameCube consoles. Arsenault argues that Nintendo's conservative business strategies and resistance to innovation during the SNES years explain its market defeat by Sony's PlayStation. Extending the notion of platform to include the marketing forces that shape and constrain creative work, Arsenault draws not only on game studies and histories but on game magazines, boxes, manuals, and advertisements to identify the technological discourses and business models that formed Nintendo's Super Power. He also describes the cultural changes in video games during the 1990s that slowly eroded the love of gamer enthusiasts for the SNES as the Nintendo generation matured. Finally, he chronicles the many technological changes that occurred through the SNES's lifetime, including full-motion video, CD-ROM storage, and the shift to 3D graphics. Because of the SNES platform's architecture, Arsenault explains, Nintendo resisted these changes and continued to focus on traditional gameplay genres.
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MIT Press Ltd
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9780262036566
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Multimedia
Publication Name
Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
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229mm
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152mm
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Platform Studies
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United States
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