Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A Space for the Boys: Considering the Gendered Quality of Arcade Culture

The kid in the center of the picture really does remind me of me.

This post is a follow up to something that Mark Filipowich wrote about gender in gaming (a link to which you can find in the longer article). Basically, one of his comments regarding how video games are "not just for teenage boys just got me thinking of the history of the arcade and it as a space that actually more or less was "just for boys" and what that means to the development of video gaming culture.

A Space for the Boys: Considering the Gendered Quality of Arcade Culture

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