American Journal of Play 10.1

For your intellectual stimulation, American Journal of Play Volume 10, Number 1.

Editor’s Note

The New Video Game History

Interview

Collecting, Preserving, and Interpreting the History of Electronic Games: An Interview with Jon-Paul C. Dyson

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Articles

New…Now?: Or Why a Design History of Coin-op Vide o Game Machines

Raiford Guins

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Ronnie, Millie, Lila—Women’s History for Games: A Manifesto and a Way Forward

Carly Kocurek

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Let’s Begin Again: Sierra On-Line and the Origins of the Graphical Adventure Game

Laine Nooney

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Teaching Us to Fear: The Violent Video Game Moral Panic and the Politics of Game Research

Patrick M. Markey and Christopher J. Ferguson

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Book Reviews

Ian Bogost, Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

James D. Ivory

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Jason Reid, Get Out of My Room!: A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Jamie C. Saucier

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Eric J. Green, Jennifer N. Baggerly, and Amie C. Myrick, Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment

Carol Korn-Bursztyn

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Tanya Jones, ed., Toy Stories: The Toy as Hero in Literature, Comics, and Film

Michelle Parnett-Dwyer

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Michael Z. Newman, Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America

Anastasia Salter

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Dan Ackerman, The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World and Tetris: The Games People Play

Jennifer deWinter

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Phillip Penix-Tadsen, Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America

Tom Apperley

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Contributors

Carly A. Kocurek

Patrick M. Markey and Christopher J. Ferguson

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