Losers Don’t Play Videogames. . . Heroes Do: The Remediation of Videogames in 1980s Science Fiction Films

A decade before the first adaptation of a videogame to film (Super Mario Brothers, 1993), computer and arcade videogames were incorporated as subject matter in mainstream Hollywood films such as War Games (1983), The Terminator (1984), and The Last Starfighter (1984), presenting the new medium throu...

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Main Author: Dawn Stobbart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lancaster University 2015-07-01
Series:The Luminary
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Online Access:http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/luminary/issue6/issue6article7.htm