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1 (p87-115) FPS distribution o CD-ROM FPS Action Strategy 80 NES Genesis 94 Play Station 2 = 96 Nintendo 64 Play Station 99 Dreamcast 3 World Wide Web Action Games p Wolfenstein 3D (id Software, 92) FPS 3D 2D Doom (id Software, 93) FPS (nononsense) Wolfenstein 3D Doom shareware Doom o (effective) Doom Heretic ( 94), Quake ( 96)

2 p.89 3D Tomb Raider ( 96) 3D Lara Croft Lara Jill ( Resident Evil ) Lara ( Lara Croft : Tomb Raider, 01, Lara Croft Tomb Raider : The Cradle of Life, 03) p90. Mortal Combat ( 92) 94 US Videogame Rating Act R p CD-ROM 00 Adventure Games p Loom (LucasArts, 90) The Secret Monkey Island ( 90) LucasArts insult sword fights The 7th Guest ( 93) CD-ROM Gabriel Knight (Sierra, 93) 7 CD p92 Gabriel Knight ( 93) 10 2D ( Gabriel Knight : Sins of the Fathers, 93) 3D ( Gabriel Knight 3 : Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, 99)Adventure Games Adventure Action Myst ( 94) PC 90 Adventure Games p93. RPG SSI 90 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (stand-alone) RPG Adventure Strategy Games

3 p Dune : The Building of a Dynasty ( 92) strategy game War Craft : Orcs and Humans ( 94) Spice in Dune : Adventure Strategy Game Strategy Game Strategy Games 2D 10 p94, 95, 96. Turn-base Strategy Games Sid Meister s Civilization ( 91) Master of Orion (Microprose, 94) Enemy Unknown Process-orieted Games p96. Myst Ultima Online (Origin / Electronic Arts, 97) MUD MUD (strict) $10 subscription 1 100,000 subscription p PC : MMOs : 3D Ultima : Wii (Nintendo, 06) p distribution :

4 casual games : hard-core games casual games Wii (Nov. 01) Nintendo o (Sony C.E., 96) Nintendo Gamecube launch title (Gamecube, 01) Wii Nintendo casual game Wii launch title ( 06) FE Wii PS3, Xbox360 o Casual Games Market Report 2007 (Casual Games Assosiation) casual games 74% Apex mobile : mess o (PS Vita ) p Action Games p98 FPS PC 01 Xbox FPS Halo (Bungie, 343 Industries, Microsoft, 01) 10 p99 FPS Action : Nintendo Gamecube FPS Metroid Prime ( 02), Legend of Zelda Super Monkey Ball 4 Microsoft hard-core Nintendo casual user o Metroid Prime FPS Metroid (Family Computer, 87) Prime FPS o Legend of Zelda FPS toon rendering p100 Sony Grand Theft Auto (PS2, 01) o

5 p101 Action Games Guitar Hero (Harmonix, PS2, 05) Harmonix 150 Wii casual game Wii Wii Sports (Wii, 06) p103 Wii casual game casual iphone casual game iphone Silent Hill the Escape, Metal Gear Touch casual game AAA title Bioshock (Irrational Games, Xbox360/PS3/PC, 07) New York Times could hold its head high among the best games ever Adventure Games p Action Adventure Games The Longest Journey, Syberia 3 2D Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon 3D King s Quest ( 01) p105 RPG Strategy Games p105 Black and White (Lionhead Studio, 01) p106 Real-time Strategy Game Warcraft : Region of Chaos Age of Mythology 02 3D o Desktop Tower defence ( 07) Windows, Mac ( 10)iPhone ( 08) p106 Strategy Game 10 iphone p107

6 ishoot Scored Earth (MS-DOS, 91) 2010S Angry Birds Process-oriented Games p Anarchy Online (Funcom, 01), Dark Age of Camelot (Vivendi, 01), Star Wars Galaxies (Sony, 03) World of Warcraft (Blizzard, 04) casual play MMORPG 2011 subscription 1200 MMOData.net p108. MMORPG (TEXTBOOK : MMORPG subscribe ) o World of Warcraft Final Fantasy 40 subscription 7 MMORPG 2100 subscription World of Warcraft subscription 2 o p109 MMO vehicle simulators Process Oriented

7 Games Microsoft Microsoft Train Simulator ( 01), Flight Simulator ( 06) o Audio Visual p distribution : social game : body as interface : kinect p110. distribution : App store Sony, Microsoft Steam independent game Limbo (Playdead, 10) Xbox Live 30 / AAA title social game : o Zynga Japan 2012 SNS Zynga Facebook Mafia ( 08) FarmVille ( 09) 3000 active user social game New York Times 10. Aug. Ian Bogost social game body as interface : p111 gamification Jesse Schell 2010 Feb. Design Outside the Box gamification 2010 Sony Microsoft natural user interface Move Kinect

8 3 p112. Angry Birds (Rovio Mobile, 09) Angry Birds audiovisual experience independent games AAA title independent games o p113. begged to differ p113. natural interface 3 o gamification identity

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