Refereed article in compilation book (A3)
A Place for a Nintendo? Discourse on locale and players’ topobiographical identity in the late 1980s and the early 1990s
List of Authors: Suominen Jaakko, Sivula Anna
Place: Cham
Publication year: 2021
Book title *: Game history and the Local
Title of series: Palgrave Games in Context
Start page: 79
End page: 100
Number of pages: 21
ISBN: 978-3-030-66421-3
eISBN: 978-3-030-66422-0
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66422-0
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66422-0
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/58017934
By using digital oral historical sources, Suominen and Sivula study the domestication of Nintendo console gaming in Finland in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. They analyze how the gaming memories are recollected and attached to particular places. According to Suominen and Sivula, the gaming identity is built around homes but on the other hand, the domestic gaming is extended in public and mobile environments.
