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Hyperlocal games

Hyperlocal games were quite common in Czechoslovak homebrew production of the late 1980s and early...

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Activist adventure in English

Three Czechoslovak activist games are now playable online, and one of them in English. Me...

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The Biorhythm Craze

My new chapter on the visuality of informal computer culture in Czechoslovakia was just published...

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Promises of the periphery

The new open access chapter discusses Czechoslovak games in the context of peripheries of game...

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Anarchy in the computer clubs

The Polish online arts magazine Obieg has published my story about young crackers, hackers, and...

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The DIY mouse project

In 1988, an influential Czechoslovak computer club launched an ambitious DIY hardware project. Local tinkerers...

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Keeping the Spectrum Alive

My chapter about platform obsolescence in a book called Fans and Video Games: Histories, Fandom,...

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Czechoslovak fanzine culture

I wrote a chapter for this bi-lingual cool non-fiction collection about fanzines and grassroots culture...

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Say it with a computer game

Some of the ideas in the book first appeared in my 2013 article for the...

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More on Czechoslovak text adventures

One of the earlier texts I published on games in 1980s Czechoslovakia came out in...

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