Arcade Britannia a social history of the British amusement arcade

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

Author/creator	Meades, Alan F.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
Description	xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs
Subject(s)	Recreation centers--Great Britain --History. Video arcades--Great Britain --History.

Series	Game Histories / edited by Henry Lowood and Raiford Guins
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.
Abstract	"A history of the arcade in British culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2022000950
ISBN	9780262544702 (Paperback)
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