As many of you may know I'm doing "Japanese Studies" as my major in university.
In a few days I will start to write my Master's thesis with the tentative title
"From Famicom to Playstation. Correlation of videogames and the Japanese society."
This title might change to a better wording still, but this is the general direction I want to go.
I already have tons of Japanese books (11 books to be exact) and some English books about videogames and influences on people.
I bought Power Up by Chris Kohler and Trigger Happy by Steven Poole, which should give me some insights I may not be aware of yet.
Now I ask you. Do you know of good books, or better, do you own good books about videogames? Or articles in magazines? If yes, would it be too much to ask you to scan the stuff in for me an send it to me?
Some books I already have an eye on:
Videogames (Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications), by James Newman
The Video Game Theory Reader, by Mark J. P. Wolf
The medium of the video game, by Mark J. P. Wolf
Joystick Nation, by J.C. Herz
If anybody has one of these I would be endlessly thankful for a scan. That way I wouldn't have to by those. The Japanese books were already expensive enough. :(
All other hints, magazine articles, webpages are welcome.
And if somebody was really helpful to me I'd also think about sending the one some goodies when I'm in Japan the next time as a little reward. :wink:
May 16th...
